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In this book, Dvir Abramovich brings together a batch of timeless
classical Hebrew novels, short stories, and poems, and furnishes
readers with commentaries and critical readings of each landmark
work. The selection of seminal texts include masterpieces from
Yehuda Amichai, Haim Gouri, Amos Oz, Dvorah Baron, Shaul
Tchernichovsky, Chaim Nachman Bialik, Hanoch Bartov, Shulamit
Hareven and Aharon Megged. Each interpretative essay includes a
biographical overview of the author whose opus is explored. The
collection will prove exceptionally useful for teachers who wish to
introduce their students to the treasures of contemporary Israeli
fi ction and are searching for refl ective analyses and searching
insights. Guaranteed to ignite discussion and debate, this
informative and entertaining volume, written in an accessible and
lively style, will appeal to a general and academic audience and
will tempt readers to read or re-read these great works.
In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces
readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have
become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are
iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret,
Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts
to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its
after-effects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students
and to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging
introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah,
and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in
representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by
survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a
distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful
analysis of the author's individual opus, accompanied by a
comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes
that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions
and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are
sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better
understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy
that befell their people.
In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces
readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have
become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are
iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret,
Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts
to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its
aftereffects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students and
to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging
introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah,
and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in
representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by
survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a
distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful
analysis of the author's individual opus, accompanied by a
comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes
that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions
and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are
sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better
understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy
that befell their people.
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