...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...

... texts, and even related historical events and myth, in light of the new ones. Specifically, the article explores the meanings associated with the public image of Yehoram Gaon, a well-known Israeli actor and singer, and analyzes his performance and role in the award-winning 2010 Israeli television...

... speculate about their raison d’être. It is specifically by trying to understand what such changes have in common and especially why they are necessary at all that it is possible to identify the specificity of the Israeli series, of its Israeliness—what there is about it that is so specific to Israeli...

...Morani Kornberg This article introduces, for the first time, the marginalized writings of Israeli-statehood-generation poet Maxim Ghilan (1931–2005), who lived in self-exile in Paris as a result of his political activism. By investigating the relationship between lyric poetry and nationalism...

... 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...

... evaluating a particular literary response (a solution) to the entrapment of life forces in pathological modes of existence (a problematics). The author discusses how and why a Deleuzian reading is both possible and desirable and takes Israeli author David Grossman’s novel The Book of Intimate Grammar as its...

... on Harshav’s impact on Israeli cul- ture (academy included) and on his Hebrew publications, with only spo- radic references to his English publications (detailed in the following bib- liography and accessible to readers of Poetics Today); I’ll concentrate on one of his many fields of interest...

.... Levi discusses why adaptations have now largely replaced dubbing and subtitles, and what artistic choices this transition entails. Picking up on the latter set of questions, Yona Hanhart-Marmor's comparison of the Israeli In Treatment ( Betipul ) with its French remake ( En th é rapie...

... of the 2011 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. He is the editor of the forthcom- ing Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores and a volume of Israeli Yiddish short stories in Hebrew translation. He is the coeditor of Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity (2007). He has published...

... 1993 The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust , translated by Haim Watzman (New York: Hill and Wang). Sloan, Jacob 1958 “Introduction,” in Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum , edited and translated by Jacob Sloan, ix -xxvii (New York: McGraw-Hill...

... with subtitles. Especially Americans. For them, it just wasn't an option before. Most of the adaptations were okay, and the viewers wanted to hear English. But today, I think there are fewer adaptations because of the streamers. So, many Israeli shows, Swedish shows, Turkish shows are broadcast in their own...

... on The Piano ” (in Hebrew). Mikan: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture Studies 17 : 443 – 53 . Jacobs Carol 1994 “ Playing Jane Campion’s Piano: Politically ,” MLN 109 , no. 5 : 757 – 85 . Jameson Fredric 1981 The Political Unconscious: Narrative...

... identity politics in Philip Roth’s early fiction and on competing national narratives of the saving of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II. He recently translated a play by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, currently in its third season in Sofia, Bulgaria. J. Martin Daughtry...

...” 591 Pinsker, Shachar “That Yiddish Has Spoken to Me”: Yiddish in Israeli Literature 325 Roskies, David G. Call It Jewspeak: On the Evolution of Speech in Modern Yiddish Writing 225 Seidman, Naomi “A Gift for the Jewish People”: Henry Einspruch’s Der Bris...

... at the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University, where she is researching a methodology of the magazine form and the role of Israeli women’s magazines in promoting an alternative bourgeois culture along- side the Zionist enterprise. She has published several articles on Stephen...

... Allusion Poetics and Theory of Literature  ‘‘Method in Mad- ness: Notes on the Structure of Parody, Based on Mad’s T.V. Satires Poetics Today  ‘‘Represented Reality and Literary Models: European Autumn on Israeli Soil Poetics Today and, ‘‘Poetics of the Homeric Simile and Theory of [Poetic...

... Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (New York: Simon and Schuster). Khalifah, Sahar 1984 Wild Thorns (London: Al Saqi). Le Carré, John 1983 The Little Drummer Girl (New York: Knopf). 2003 Absolute Friends (Boston: Little, Brown). Lessing, Doris 1985...

..., School of Audio and Visual Arts in southwest Israel. She is writing a PhD dissertation about casting in Israeli television drama series at the Department of Communication and Journalism of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her previous article regarding the hermeneutics of casting in the television...

..., and in the Laboratory for Cognitive Poetics at Ben-Gurion University. She has published four books on the early modern period, including a monograph study of The Christian Hebraism of John Donne (2010). She has also published essays on English, American, and Israeli poetry, focusing on the use of Bakhtinian...

...Gal Hertz References Bargad Warran , and Chyet Stanley . 1986 . Israeli Poetry: A Contemporary Ontology . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Felski Rita . Literature after Feminism . Chicago : Chicago University Press . MacKinnon Catherine . 2007...