Israeli Stories A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing

Name: Israeli Stories A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing
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ISBN: 9780805201086

ISBN-10: 0805201084

ISBN-13: 9780805201086

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joel Blocker, R. Alter

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A selection of the Best Writing in Israel TodayEdited by Joel Blocker, introduction by Robert AlterThe present volume of Israeli stories reassuringly illustrates the other half of a frequently asserted half-truth. Modern Hebrew literature, it is claimed, liked Yiddish literature, does not really share the large concerns of serious literary activity in the West. The Hebrew writer ordinarily does not address himself to the human situation with all of its far-reaching possibilities of tragedy of comedy, but to the Jewish situation, which is quite another thing. Consequently, Hebrew and Yiddish writers—so goes the claim—develop a system of typology rather than methods of characterization, for…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/13/1965
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748



Introduction



Tehilah



The Sermon



The Name



The Parched Earth



A Roll of Canvas



The Prisoner



Next of Kin



Battle for the Hill



Forevermore