A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

Yaron Peleg is Kennedy-Leigh Professor in Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Zehavit Zaslansky has a Ph.D. in modern Hebrew literature from the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction Zehavit Zaslansky and Yaron Peleg; 1. The Hebrew canon: twenty first century reflections Eran Kaplan; Part I. Early Hebrew Modernisms: 2. Historiographical montage: Hasidic popular literature and the making of Jewish modernity Chen Mandel-Edrei; 3. Genre and the emergence of Hebrew modernism in the nineteenth century Lilah Netanel; 4. Maskilic Hebrew as a modern literary idiom: colloquial dialogues and lexical innovations Lily Kahn and Sonya Yampolskaya; 5. The role of non-literary genres in the consolidation of modern Hebrew literary realism Svetlana Natkovich; 6. Bilingual writing, counterfactuals and the self-translational mode of modern Hebrew literature, Yaakov Herskovitz; 7. City of darkness: the New York literary scene in the works of Simon Halkin and Abraham Zvi Halevy Shachar Levanon; 8. Global Haskalah: translation and the making of Jewish literary modernity Lital Levy; Part II. Territorial Dimensions: 9. The crisis and tragedy of Hebrew literary criticism Shai Ginsburg; 10. O My Land, My Homeland: Hebrew poetry encounters the land of Israel Avner Holtzman; 11. Zelda's Shabbat, a materialist reading Yoavl Ronel and Tafat Hacohen-Bick; 12. The in-betweens of Mizrahi literature Almog Behar; 13. Sami Michael and Israeli literature: the social novels of Sami Michael Yigal Schwartz; 14. Tel Aviv East: a tale of Mizrahi geography and resistance Yuval Evri; 15. Disruptive daughters: Orly Castel-Bloom, Ronit Matalon, and the Zionist master- narrative Nancy Berg; 16. Marginal space and blurring boundaries: the birth of an Arab-Jewish bilingual literary journal Xinyi Chen; Part III. Hebrew in the 'Post' Era: 17. An Ashkenazi school of Hebrew literature Yaron Peleg; 18. The people's camp: Palestinian Marxism and the magazine in Mizrahi fiction Chana Morgenstern; 19. Ramy Ditzanny and Hebrew poetry of the 1980s: historiography, nationalism, and global capitalism Hamutal Tsamir; 20. Why does Hebrew literature need the goy? The motif of the non-Jewish Other in contemporary Hebrew literature Yagoda Budzik; 21. From internetica to mediatization: literary practices and their meanings in the digital age Noa Shakargy.

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