...Allison Schachter This article examines how Leah Goldberg's modernist novel Avedot , written between 1936 and 1939, but unpublished in her lifetime, theorizes the intersections of gender, Hebrew secularism, and Orientalism. Goldberg's novel dramatizes the crisis of secular European Hebrew through...

...Naomi Brenner Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century . By Schachter Allison . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 198 p. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 Works Cited Anderson Benedict . Imagined Communities...

... kitve Mendele Mocher Sforim . Tel Aviv : Dvir , 1947 . 399 – 405 . Print . ———. “Shem and Japheth on the Train.” Trans. Lever Walter . Modern Hebrew Literature . Ed. Alter Robert . Springfield : Behrman House , 1975 . 15 – 40 . Print . Agnon Shmuel Yosef . “Ba...

...Neta Stahl Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact . By Brenner Naomi . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2016 . 320 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 348 “forgets to be” and imagines himself at one with...

...-shniya .” Ph.D. Diss. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003 . Hever, Hannan. “`Ivrit be-'eto shel `arvi: Shisha prakim `al `Arabeskot me-et Anton Shamas.” Te'orya u-vikoret 1 ( 1991 ): 23 -38. ____. “Shisha kta'im `al `Arabeskot shel Anton Shamas.” Ha-mila ha-ktuva ( 1986 ): 58 -61...

...Gil Z. Hochberg Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination. By Yaron Peleg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. 153 p. University of Oregon 2007 BOOK REVIEWS/349 BOOK...

...NAOMI BRENNER From the early years of his long and prolific writing career, Hebrew poet Avraham Shlonsky continually wrote and rewrote himself into the early twentieth-century cultural scene as consummate artist and ideologue. Affiliating his artistic persona with a new Zionist language, ideology...

...Maya Barzilai Following the 1988 translation of Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida into Hebrew, Ronit Matalon, an Israeli writer of Egyptian extraction, began interpolating Barthes into her writing, in part through unacknowledged quotations. This essay explores how Camera Lucida “traveled,” as a piece...

... essay examines Kashua's active participation in the Israeli (Hebrew) public sphere and the way in which his writings take part in the construction of a critical minority discourse. By this I do not simply mean the obvious: that, as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Kashua occupies a minority position...

... negated. Finally, by tracing the same structure of negated subjectivity in the work of the Hebrew poet Dan Pagis, I show that this dispute is not merely a local debate between two German-language thinkers but an indication of a deeper fault line in poetic representation of the Holocaust. © 2014 by...

... potential for serious political work. The essay takes Hebrew culture as its primary example. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Tragedy Zionism Oedipus Antigone Ronit Matalon's Sarah Sarah Butler Works Cited Abrahams Israel . Jewish Life in the Middle Ages . 1898 . New York...

.... In light of the ideological quandaries that shaped Goldberg, I argue that the paradigm of insecure sanctuaries and competing temporalities underlies her revision of both gothic and Zionist notions of victimization. Goldberg's play thus reflects her ambivalence regarding the development of Hebrew...

... era; Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1934), where the detritus of a Lower East Side childhood become symbolic totems of a violent coming-of-age; and S. Y. Agnon’s Just Yesterday (Hebrew, 1946), an epic novel of immigration, cultural renaissance, and insanity set in Jaffa and Jerusalem, wherein taxidermy...

...Shir Alon Abstract Focusing on Hebrew writer Orly Castel-Bloom’s novel Dolly City (1993), as well as on her short stories published in the same period, this essay analyzes how neoliberal principles of risk management, primarily risk privatization and speculation, shape postmodernist literary genres...

... Aberbach, David. Bialik . London: Halban, 1988 . ———, ed. and trans. C. N. Bialik: Selected Poems . Duckworth: Overlook Press, 2004 . Alfi, Yossi. How to Make an Iraqi, A Book of Poems . Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim, 1981 . [Hebrew] Atar, Hadari, ed. Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik...

... . ———. “Dhâkira lil-Nisyân.” (Arabic) . Al Karmel 21–22 ( 1986 ): 4 – 96 . Print . ———. Memory for Forgetfulness . Trans. Muhavi Ibrahim . Berkeley : U of California P , 1995 . ———. “Hagalut kol-kach Hazakah Betokhee, olai Avea ota Artzah.” (Hebrew) . Hadarim 12 ( Spring 1996 ): 172...

... Herder’s most valuable contribution to hermeneutics, also informs Herder’s biblical scholarship. Inspired by the English Hebrew scholar Bishop Robert Lowth, On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry approaches the Old Testament not as a Holy Writ but rather as a poetic text in which the values of ancient Hebrews...

... . Gover, Yerach. Zionism: The Limits of Moral Discourse in Israeli Hebrew Fiction . London: University of Minnesota Press, 1994 . Gur, Batya. Rev. of Aqud, by Albert Swissa. Ha-aretz 25 January 1991 . B8 . Hargreaves, Alec G. “Beur Fiction: Voices from the Immigrant Community in France...

... Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination . Continuum , 2010 . Grossman David . Interview at Stanford , Vered Karti Shemtov , 2009 . Grossman David . The Book of Intimate Grammar . Picador , 2002 (1991 in Hebrew) . Grossman David . To the End of the Land . Vintage...

... scholars sought to resolve this crisis. Interrupting his examination of Christian treatises composed in Latin and Spanish, Szpiech turns in the third chapter to the uses of conversion narra- tives in the medieval Jewish context. Drawing on a range of texts penned in Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew...