...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...

...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...

... 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...

... possessed Czerniakow’s diary, writ- ten in Polish. In 1964, the Israeli ambassador to Canada had acquired the diary from a woman who had managed to escape the Warsaw ghetto and hide on the ‘‘Aryan’’ side of the city. She took the diary with her when she left Poland and later sold it. Published first...

... . 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...

... 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...

... Red Death (London: Hodder and Stoughton). Jonas, George 1984 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...

..., 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...

... literature and human rights is found in Joseph Slaughter's (2007) work. 3. The older translation is by Warran Bargad and Stanley Chyet (1986: 111). References Bargad Warran , and Chyet Stanley . 1986 . Israeli Poetry: A Contemporary Ontology . Bloomington : Indiana University...

... and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (edited by Janae Sholtz and Cheri Carr, 2019) and in symploke¯. Morani Kornberg is a writer, scholar, and artist whose work revolves around the violent legacies of colonialism, transnational feminism, Israeli and Pales- tinian relations, and the ability of art to transform the social...

... period, including a monograph study entitled The Christian Hebraism of John Donne (2010). She has also pub- lished essays on English, American, and Israeli poetry, focusing on the use of Bakhtinian discourse, as well as the cognitive dimensions of metonymy and metaphor. Joseph Glicksohn...

... and Semiotics 354 Poetics Today 30:2 close attention to the literary features of the text in the context of the bib- lical canon as a whole. On the other hand, French-speaking narrative criticism constitutes a quite late appropriation of Israeli and English-speaking literary approaches...

... not just as a falling apart of his own identity but, more broadly, as expressing the limits of our narrative understanding of the horrors of history. Two works by the Israeli author David Grossman, To the End of the Land (2010) and Falling out of Time (2015), are the focus of chapter 7, which inves...

..., different. Jews there preferred to focus on the kinds of themes that would help build the new Jewish state—heroism, strength, invulnerability. But these were themes that were undercut by the Holocaust, in which Jews had been supreme victims who, as some Israelis put it, had gone to their deaths ‘‘like...