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1 online resource (368 pages) |
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Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies |
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Shofar supplements in Jewish studies.
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Literature of Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Literature of Boundaries; The Literature of Palestinian Citizens of Israel; Palestinian-Israeli Authors Writing in Hebrew; The Second Generation of Writers in Hebrew; The Third Generation of Writers in Hebrew; Three Stories of Acceptance; Habibi and the Israel Prize for Literature; Mahmoud Darwish in Israeli Schools; Ghassan Kanafani-Returning to Haifa in Israeli Eyes; The Metonym of "Identity Card" in Mahmoud Darwish and Sayed Kashua |
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Chapter 3: "Ana min al-yahud": Mizrahi Literature and the Question of Space and AuthenticityDoes Mizrahi Literature in Israel Have a Face? A Historical and Poetical Survey; The Mizrahi Literature of the 1950s and 1960s; The 1970s-First Signs of Mizrahi Poetics: Sami Michael, Erez Biton, Ronny Someck, and Jacqueline Kahanoff; The 1980s and 1990s-Different Voices in Mizrahi Writing: Dan Benaya Seri, Eli Amir, Amira Hess, and Ronit Matalon; Towards the 2000s and Beyond-the Second and Third Generations Reconstruct Mizrahi Identity; New Spaces in Contemporary Mizrahi Writings |
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On Language and Memory-Almog BeharThe Great Mother-Ronit Matalon's The Sound of our Steps and Sami Berdugo's That is to Say; Shimon Adaf and the Peripheral Novel; Conclusion, or: is A.B. Yehoshua a Mizrahi Author?; Chapter 4: The Aristocrat and Her Handmaid: Russian-Israeli Literature and the Question of Language; Introduction; Dual Colonialism, or: Who's in Charge of the Cultural Ghetto?; Israel and the Russian Diaspora; Israeli Literature Written in Russian; A Sip of the Russian-Israeli Cocktail; On the Journey between Diaspora and the Holy Land-Efrem Bauch and David Markish |
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The Liminality of Spaces and Times-Anna IsakovaPoetry That Bites-Igor Guberman; Returning to Holy Jerusalem, Returning to "Blood" and "Love"-Mikhail Gendelev; On War and God-Mikhail Grobman; Between the Narrator and the Immigrant-Dina Rubina; The Multicultural Dining Room-Gali-Dana Singer; Between the Languages-the Gesher Theater; Russian Immigrants Writing in Hebrew; In Search of Lost Memories; Alona Kimhi-Hybridity Materializes; Victor and Masha; Sivan Baskin's Poetic Alternative; The Nomadic World of Alex Epstein |
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Chapter 5: The Road to Jerusalem, The Search for Zion: the Literature of Ethiopian-IsraelisIntroduction; From Ethiopia to Jerusalem-the Story of the Odyssey; Blood and Water; Blood; Water; Searching for Zion; Minorities of Minorities-Black Jewish Women; Epilogue; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from the former Soviet Union, and of Ethiopian-Israelis, the author demonstrates an unexpected richness and diversity in the Israeli literary scene, a reality very different from the monocultural image that Zionism aspired to create. Drawing on a wide body of social and literary theory, Mendelson-Maoz co |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Israeli literature -- History and criticism
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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National characteristics, Israeli, in literature.
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Literature and society -- Israel -- History
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Minorities in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Ethnic groups in literature
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Israeli literature
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Literature and society
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Minorities in literature
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Multiculturalism in literature
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National characteristics, Israeli, in literature
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Israel
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612493633 |
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1612493637 |
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