...Shachar Pinsker This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish—as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a “postvernacular”—operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I...

... . London : Faber & Faber . Hever Hannan 2017 “ Opposing Identity Politics and Venturing Beyond It: Following Carol Jacobs on The Piano ” (in Hebrew). Mikan: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture Studies 17 : 443 – 53 . Jacobs Carol 1994 “ Playing Jane...

... preferred drawing room . According to Emerson (2021, pers. comm.), drawing room best suits the Russian гостиная, which Bakhtin uses in combination with салон (salon); German and Hebrew translations also use an analogue to this term. We have chosen private chamber over boudoir with the understanding...

...Ken Frieden Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature...

... community in the Holocaust and the multilingual composition of Yiddish as a fusion language that crosses lexicons and alphabets. By invoking or embedding Yiddish in non-Yiddish writing, whether in its original Hebrew letters or in transliteration, authors emphasize the characters' and the reader's encounter...

... to the work of the Israeli poet, Avot Yeshurun—in particular, how the mother tongue underlying his Hebrew writing forms a subversive tradition and, as such,fulfills new, unprecedented roles in his poetry. I discuss the ways in which the montage (of words, perspectives, languages, and cultural worlds...

... talk, and Hasidic speech with parody. Not until 1864–66, however, did the new orality enter its second phase, when the Hebrew writer Shalom-Yankev Abramovitsh fashioned an autonomous Yiddish-speaking voice and manipulated the Jewish textual tradition at will. Sholem Aleichem and I. L. Peretz further...

... translations, Einspruch produced a version that, in more fully mobilizing the Hebrew components of Yiddish, was designed to remind his Jewish readers that Christianity emerged in a Jewish context. This translation style also reflected and even embodied new trends in the conceptualization of conversion from...

... in exile, citing past models, from Dante to the Hebrew Poetic Renaissance in the Russian empire at the turn of the twentieth century. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Andreev, Nikolai 1957 “A. M. Remizov,” Grani 34 –35: 202 -14. Auerbach, Erich 1969...

... of largeness]: Theory and Practice in Uri Zvi Grinberg’s Expressionist Poetry. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibutz Ha-Meuchad, In Hebrew. Structuralist Poetics in Israel (with Ziva Ben-Porat). Papers on Poetics and Semiotics No. . Tel Aviv University. (In Portuguese as La Poetica e Estru- turalismo em Israel...

... groundbreaking work (theoretical and in- stitutional), ‘‘all of us came out of the folds of his overcoat Four projects have sprung from this realization: the publication of his collected works in Hebrew, reedited and occasionally revised by the author (two out of five planned volumes have appeared...

... University Press ). Even-Zohar Itamar Harshav Benjamin , eds. 1986 “Hebrew and Yiddish: Literature, Language, Culture,” Special issue , Hasifrut 35 – 36 . Fishman Johsua A. 1981 “The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword,” in Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish...

..., such as Classic Yiddish Fiction (1995) and Classic Yiddish Stories (2004), his most recent book and articles focus on the interrelations between Yiddish, Hebrew, and German in the early nineteenth century. His other books include anthologies of Yiddish literature in translation such as Tales of Mendele...

... and Edd W. Parks, 460 -62 (New York:Norton). Leech, Geoffrey 1974 Semantics (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin). Levin, Israel 1963 Samuel Hannagid: His Life and Poetry (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad). Meyer, Leonard B. 1956 Emotion and Meaning in Music (Chicago: University...

... Relations in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature: A Pre- liminary Sketch, Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, UK: Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations). Bergelson, David 2008 [1913] The End of Everything, edited, translated, and introduced by Joseph Sherman, New Yiddish Library...

... in themiddle, touching shoulders with poet Natan Zach, isMaximGhilan.DespiteGhilan s central position in the photo and his association with Likrat,2 his place in the Hebrew canon is practically nonex- istent. Ghilan was a poet, editor, translator, and peace activist who did even- tually receive recognition...

... in times of extreme crisis. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Another Glance through the Historian’s Lens: Testimonies in the Study of Health and Medicine in the Ghetto Dalia Ofer Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Abstract The essay...

... and comparative literature as well as director of the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include Lyrical Poetry and the Lyrics of Pop (in Hebrew) and Autumn in Hebrew Poetry (in Hebrew). She has also written many articles, including ‘‘The Poetics of Literary...

... him to look cruelly at oneself. He added that he realized he would not be forgiven for doing this and that is why Voices in the Darkness would never be published in Israel in Hebrew translation (quoted in Wro´bel 1991: 15). Voices in the Darkness was written in Moscow in 1944, in reaction...

... to Silence,” in Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History , by Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, 120 -64 (New York:Routledge). Felstiner, John 2003 “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Boxcar,” in The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself , edited by Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan...