Nancy E. Berg is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her previous books include Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq,, also published by SUNY Press. Naomi B. Sokoloff is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. Her previous books include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction. Together, Berg and Sokoloff are the coeditors of What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for anthologies and collections.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Under Construction: A Kind of Festschrift for Israeli LiteratureNancy E. Berg and Naomi B. SokoloffPart One: Through Time: Silences, Voices, EchoesNot One, but Five Moments of Silence: On the Poetics and Politics of Asking for SilenceEran TzelgovSounding the Mizrachi Voice: Hafla Thematics from the Ma'abarah to the PostArabic NovelMichal RaizenAnthological Poetics: Reading Amichai and Halfi in Liberal PrayerbooksWendy I. ZierlerPart Two: Across Language and Territory: Literature and IdentityWhen Yiddish Was Young in IsraelShachar PinskerA Canaanite Story: Language, National Identity, and the 1948 WarYael DekelHebrew Unbound: Alternative Homelands in the New WorldMelissa WeiningerPart Three: Between the Lines: Rethinking GenresFrom Here to Elsewhere and Back in IsraeliHebrew Children's LiteratureShai Ginsburg"The pigs were my best friends": Animals and the Holocaust in Alona Frankel's MemoirsNaomi B. SokoloffStalagim: At the Limits of Israeli LiteratureEric ZakimPart Four: Concerning CanonsDisruptive Nativity: The Poetry of Rina Shani and the Sixties in IsraelRiki TraumAsaf Schurr and the Critique of Postmodernism in Contemporary Hebrew LiteratureYaron Peleg"And the Winner Is...": The Economy of Literary AwardsNancy E. BergAppendix: A Canaanite Story: "The Lord Be Praised"Eitan NotevOn Our BookshelfContributorsIndex

"Berg and Sokoloff make a heroic effort to address the complexities of Israeli literature since 1948, the founding year of the State of Israel." — CHOICE"A principal strength of the volume lies in its conversational foundation … The possible conversations between essays that a reader may envision are likely to constitute a worthwhile exercise, whether they are broad and deep or limited in scope." — Hebrew Higher Education"Since 1948 is an in many ways illuminating collection of essays on Israeli literature that broadens and deepens our understanding of the subject." — Fathom"The extensive introduction does a great job of scanning the various stages in the development of Israeli literature and devises a new periodization of this rich corpus using original criteria. The book as a whole presents a strong overall view of this body of literature without becoming encyclopedic, attempting to begin a process of canonization. Furthermore, while this book speaks of the margins, it also considers the central narrative and works to redefine both." — Nili Gold, author of Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet

Nancy E. Berg is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her previous books include Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq,, also published by SUNY Press. Naomi B. Sokoloff is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. Her previous books include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction. Together, Berg and Sokoloff are the coeditors of What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for anthologies and collections.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Under Construction: A Kind of Festschrift for Israeli LiteratureNancy E. Berg and Naomi B. SokoloffPart One: Through Time: Silences, Voices, EchoesNot One, but Five Moments of Silence: On the Poetics and Politics of Asking for SilenceEran TzelgovSounding the Mizrachi Voice: Hafla Thematics from the Ma'abarah to the PostArabic NovelMichal RaizenAnthological Poetics: Reading Amichai and Halfi in Liberal PrayerbooksWendy I. ZierlerPart Two: Across Language and Territory: Literature and IdentityWhen Yiddish Was Young in IsraelShachar PinskerA Canaanite Story: Language, National Identity, and the 1948 WarYael DekelHebrew Unbound: Alternative Homelands in the New WorldMelissa WeiningerPart Three: Between the Lines: Rethinking GenresFrom Here to Elsewhere and Back in IsraeliHebrew Children's LiteratureShai Ginsburg"The pigs were my best friends": Animals and the Holocaust in Alona Frankel's MemoirsNaomi B. SokoloffStalagim: At the Limits of Israeli LiteratureEric ZakimPart Four: Concerning CanonsDisruptive Nativity: The Poetry of Rina Shani and the Sixties in IsraelRiki TraumAsaf Schurr and the Critique of Postmodernism in Contemporary Hebrew LiteratureYaron Peleg"And the Winner Is...": The Economy of Literary AwardsNancy E. BergAppendix: A Canaanite Story: "The Lord Be Praised"Eitan NotevOn Our BookshelfContributorsIndex

"Berg and Sokoloff make a heroic effort to address the complexities of Israeli literature since 1948, the founding year of the State of Israel." — CHOICE"A principal strength of the volume lies in its conversational foundation … The possible conversations between essays that a reader may envision are likely to constitute a worthwhile exercise, whether they are broad and deep or limited in scope." — Hebrew Higher Education"Since 1948 is an in many ways illuminating collection of essays on Israeli literature that broadens and deepens our understanding of the subject." — Fathom"The extensive introduction does a great job of scanning the various stages in the development of Israeli literature and devises a new periodization of this rich corpus using original criteria. The book as a whole presents a strong overall view of this body of literature without becoming encyclopedic, attempting to begin a process of canonization. Furthermore, while this book speaks of the margins, it also considers the central narrative and works to redefine both." — Nili Gold, author of Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet

Nancy E. Berg is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her previous books include Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq,, also published by SUNY Press. Naomi B. Sokoloff is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. Her previous books include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction. Together, Berg and Sokoloff are the coeditors of What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for anthologies and collections.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Under Construction: A Kind of Festschrift for Israeli LiteratureNancy E. Berg and Naomi B. SokoloffPart One: Through Time: Silences, Voices, EchoesNot One, but Five Moments of Silence: On the Poetics and Politics of Asking for SilenceEran TzelgovSounding the Mizrachi Voice: Hafla Thematics from the Ma'abarah to the PostArabic NovelMichal RaizenAnthological Poetics: Reading Amichai and Halfi in Liberal PrayerbooksWendy I. ZierlerPart Two: Across Language and Territory: Literature and IdentityWhen Yiddish Was Young in IsraelShachar PinskerA Canaanite Story: Language, National Identity, and the 1948 WarYael DekelHebrew Unbound: Alternative Homelands in the New WorldMelissa WeiningerPart Three: Between the Lines: Rethinking GenresFrom Here to Elsewhere and Back in IsraeliHebrew Children's LiteratureShai Ginsburg"The pigs were my best friends": Animals and the Holocaust in Alona Frankel's MemoirsNaomi B. SokoloffStalagim: At the Limits of Israeli LiteratureEric ZakimPart Four: Concerning CanonsDisruptive Nativity: The Poetry of Rina Shani and the Sixties in IsraelRiki TraumAsaf Schurr and the Critique of Postmodernism in Contemporary Hebrew LiteratureYaron Peleg"And the Winner Is...": The Economy of Literary AwardsNancy E. BergAppendix: A Canaanite Story: "The Lord Be Praised"Eitan NotevOn Our BookshelfContributorsIndex

"Berg and Sokoloff make a heroic effort to address the complexities of Israeli literature since 1948, the founding year of the State of Israel." — CHOICE"A principal strength of the volume lies in its conversational foundation … The possible conversations between essays that a reader may envision are likely to constitute a worthwhile exercise, whether they are broad and deep or limited in scope." — Hebrew Higher Education"Since 1948 is an in many ways illuminating collection of essays on Israeli literature that broadens and deepens our understanding of the subject." — Fathom"The extensive introduction does a great job of scanning the various stages in the development of Israeli literature and devises a new periodization of this rich corpus using original criteria. The book as a whole presents a strong overall view of this body of literature without becoming encyclopedic, attempting to begin a process of canonization. Furthermore, while this book speaks of the margins, it also considers the central narrative and works to redefine both." — Nili Gold, author of Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet