Reading Hebrew literature : critical discussions of six modern texts
Eighteen pre-eminent Hebrew literature scholars in the US and Israel offer commentary -- traditional, historicist, feminist, post-modern -- on one of six modern texts. The texts, printed here in both English and Hebrew, are either short stories or poems, and range from "old" classics by the best-known writers in Hebrew of the first decades of the 20th century, such as M.Y. Berdichevsky, S. Tchernichovsky, and S.Y. Agnon, to an interwar poem by Uri Zvi Greenberg to the contemporary modernist work of Amalia Cahana-Karmon and Dalia Ravikovitch. Alan Mintz's general introduction explains the genesis and development of modern Hebrew literature, its reception in US universities, and the value of the multiple readings offered in this book
Print Book, English, ©2003
University Press of New England : Brandeis University Press, Hanover, NH, ©2003