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Israeli Stories by Joel Blocker

Israeli Stories

A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing

By Joel Blocker

By Joel Blocker

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Jan 13, 1965 | ISBN 9780805201086

Israeli Stories by Joel Blocker
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Jan 13, 1965 | ISBN 9780805201086

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About Israeli Stories

A selection of the Best Writing in Israel Today

Edited by Joel Blocker, introduction by Robert Alter

The 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 they are most essentially interested in the Jewish people, its particular qualities and its present fate or ultimate destiny, while the individual, who is central in other modern literatures, stands at the periphery of their vision.

Product Details

Category: Literary Criticism | Literary Collections

Paperback | $19.00
Published by Schocken
Jan 13, 1965 | 260 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780805201086

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Praise

“These stories, with the excellent commentary, are a moving and . . . eloquent literary record of an emerging society.”
—Saturday Review
 
“The stories are uniformly good, able to stand comparison with the best being done anywhere today.”
—Library Journal

Table Of Contents

Contents

Introduction  • Robert Alter

Tehilah • S. Y. Agnon

The Sermon •  Haim Hazaz

The Name • Aharon Megged

The Parched Earth • Yoram Kaniuk

A Roll of Canvas • Benjain Tammu

The Prisoner • S. Yizhar

Battle for the Hill • Yehuda Amihai

Forevermore • S.Y. Agnon
 



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