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Israeli Stories: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing

By Joel Blocker
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By Joel Blocker
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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 ...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismMiddle Eastern & Arabic LiteratureMiddle Eastern Literature - Literary Criticism