Modern Hebrew Fiction

by Shaked, Gershon; Lotan, Yael; Budick, Emily Miller

• ISBN13: 9780253337115
• ISBN10: 0253337119
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Gershon Shaked's history of modern Hebrew fiction traces the emergence and development of a literature "against all odds" -- from its European roots in the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to the flowering of a literary culture on Israeli soil through the 1990s. The product of more than 20 years of research, it is unique in its scope, profiling four generations of Hebrew writers.

Author Biography

Gershon Shaked is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to many works in Hebrew, his English language publications include *The Shadows Within: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers*, *Shmuel Yosef Agnon: A Revolutionary Traditionalist*, and* Eight Great Hebrew Short Novels* (coedited with Alan Lelchuk). Shaked is the recipient of the Israel Prize and the Bialik Prize.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Editor's Foreword	xi
A Literature ``Against All Odds'': The Advent of Modern Hebrew Literature	1	(10)
Mendele Mokher Seforim: Formulation and the Stirrings of Hebrew Social Realism	11	(10)
Hebrew Literary Romanticism: Religion, Myth, and the Westernization of Hebrew Literature	21	(16)
Hebrew Literary Realism: From the New Path to Local Color Fiction	37	(8)
Psychological Realism and the Poetics of Disenchantment: Literature De Profundis	45	(18)
Genre and Anti-Genre: Will All Hopes Be Fulfilled?	63	(18)
The Crossroads; or, Is This the Abode of the Spirit?: S. Y. Agnon	81	(15)
To Build and Be Rebuilt: Homeland Art and the Third Aliyah	96	(17)
Hebrew Literary Modernism: Jewish Fiction and the International Scene	113	(26)
Literary Realism, 1940--1980: Transformations of a Genre and the Struggle for a National Narrative	139	(48)
Political Crisis and Literary Revolution: The New Wave, 1960--1980	187	(44)
Toward the 1990s: A Generation without Dreams	231	(12)
Glossary	243	(6)
List of Literary Journals and Newspapers	249	(4)
For Further Reading	253	(7)
Index	260