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Preface |
vii |
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Introduction |
1 |
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Defining the New Tradition |
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1. Shall we find sufficient strength? On behalf of
Israeli secularism |
14 |
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2. Israeli society and secular Jewish culture |
29 |
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3. Between the Western Wall and Masada: the Holocaust
and the historical consciousness of Israeli society |
36 |
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4. Breaking the mold: the maturing of Hebrew literature |
48 |
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5. The beginnings of Hebrew literature in America |
78 |
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Poetry and Drama |
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6. The myth of rebellion: an interpretation of Bialik's
"The Dead of the Desert" |
101 |
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7. Mattityahu Shoham's Jericho |
120 |
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8. The early Amichai and his literary reference group |
144 |
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Mendele |
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9. Dickens' Oliver Twist and Mendele's The Book of
Beggars |
173 |
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10. Three Kalikes: a comparative study of Mendele, Agnon,
and Bashevis |
183 |
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11. "A Groan from a Broken Heart": Mendele's
Fishke the
Lame as a demand for responsibility |
194 |
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Agnon |
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12. After the Fall: Nostalgia and the treatment of
authority in Kafka and Agnon |
216 |
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13. Midrash and Narrative: Agnon's "Agunot" |
244 |
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14. Portrait of the Immigrant as a Young Neurotic |
262 |
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East and West |
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15. The Man who was not Job: Brenner's
Breakdown and
Bereavement |
275 |
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16. Shami's The Vengeance of the fathers: a
Palestinian-Hebrew novel |
295 |
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The Outsider |
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17. David Vogel: a Hebrew novelist in Vienna |
309 |
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Sources |
325 |
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Index of Writers |
327 |
