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Eilat Negev


 

Eilat Negev.
        Close encounters with twenty Israeli writers
/ Eilat Negev ; introduction by Risa Domb. -- London ; Portland OR. : Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.
180 p.

Close Encounters is a unique collection of twenty profiles of prominent Israeli writers, including Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Aaron Appelfeld, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Orly Castel-Bloom and Dorit Rabinyan. It is a first of its kind; each profile is based upon interviews and research, and provides intimate background to each writer and their work. Together, the twenty Close Encounters create a panorama of the Israeli experience - Diaspora, Holocaust, immigration, gender, the tension between religious and secular, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and Arabs.

Table of contents:

  • Preface by Eilat Negev
  • Introduction by Dr. Risa Domb
  1. Shmuel-Yosef Agnon (1887-1970)
        Abandoned People, Lost Places
  2. Uri-Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981)
        Eyes that Penetrate the Abyss
  3. Natan Alterman (1910-1970)
        Lava of Love and Politics
  4. Leah Goldberg (1911-1970)
        Cursed by Love
  5. S. Yizhar (1916-2006)
        No Stone is Worth Dying For
  6. Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
        A Secular Prophet
  7. Natan Zach (1930- )
        A Gentle Man in a Harsh Land
  8. Aharon Appelfeld (1932- )
        Caught in a Web of Hallucination
  9. Yaacov Shabtai (1934-1981)
        End of the Matter
  10. Dalia Ravikovitch (1936-2005)
        The Things to be Forgotten
  11. A. B. Yehoshua (1936- )
        In Search for Borders
  12. Amos Oz (1939- )
        The Secret Agent from the Eighteenth Compartment
  13. Hannah Bat Shahar (1944- )
        The Double Life of the Rabbi's Wife
  14. Yona Wallach (1944-1985)
        Never Shall I Hear God's Sweet Voice
  15. Meir Shalev (1948- )
        The Emasculated Man and the Queen Bee
  16. David Grossman (1954- )
        I'm an Egg without a Shell
  17. Ronit Matalon (1959- )
        Reminiscences of a Street Cat
  18. Zeruyah Shalev (1959- )
        A Collector of Catastrophes
  19. Orly Castel-Bloom (1960- )
        Between Motherhood and Madness
  20. Dorit Rabinyan (1972- )
        Cinderella's Lost Sandal

 

 

 

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