The author of this book argues that Israeli traumas exist in the language, poetics, and politics of Israeli literature. Presenting a comprehensive and methodical study of this phenomenon, this book raises piercing questions concerning the politics behind literature and its moral authority, focusing specifically on the responsibility of the author. Hever tracks the literary processing methods of Israeli traumas in light of the extermination of European Jews, the 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the 1973 war in the works of S. Yizhar, Leah Goldberg, Avoth Yeshurun, Nathan Alterman, Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Erez Biton, Yitzhak Laor, Shimon Ballas, Haim Be’er, and Rivka Ben-Hayim. The book offers a rigorous discussion of the unique manners in which literature deals with representations of traumas. This research presents the traces of Israeli post-trauma represented in the literary text, and tackles the question of responsibility among fictional characters.

The articles in this volume: Jonatan Feintuch – The History of R. Ada b. Abba – Multiple Contexts and Multiple Messages in a Babylonian Talmudic Sugya. Shulamit Elizur – Exile on Native Soil. Avital Davidovich-Eshed – Sanetified God, Desecrated Woman: The Female Body as a Site of Cultural Conflict. Rereading the Story of the Murder of Sarit from a Hebrew Chronicle of 1096 . Tsippi Kauffman – Birth in Hasidic Literature: Gendered Readings. Yakir Englander – Tension Regarding the Status of the Zaddik's Body: The Stories about the Ba'al 'Ahavat Israel' from Viznitz. Yaniv Goldberg – 'You Are Not My Groom' – A Feminist Reading in S. An-sky's Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk). Omri Ben-Yehuda – Between Bialik and Himslef: Acting Hyperbole Out. David Heyd – 'The House which Householders Attend': Agnon on the Theater. Zahava Caspi – Apocalypse, Territory and Identity in Joseph Mundi's The Ruler of Jericho and The Messiah. Shimrit Peled – Construction of Female Sexual Subjectivity in Victoria by Sami Michael in Comparison to other Hebrew and Israeli Writers. List of Contributors. English Abstracts.

Moshe Simon-Shoshan: The Story of Honi Hame'agel in Mishnah Ta'anit 3:8: A Case Study in the Art of Mishnaic Narrative The articles in this volume: Gilad Sasson: The Expanded Biblical Story about Abigail Who Prevents David from Shedding Blood Uriah Kfir: On Poetry and Potency: En Ron Becha – A Muwashshah by Abraham haBedersi Nicham Ross: The Tale if Not Higher and its Hasidic Source Ariel Levinson: The Riddle of Berdichevsky's Miriam Mimi Haskin: Dancing Amidst Flames of Fire: The Hora Dance in the Hebrew Culture and Literature Dror Eydar: 'Sometimes the Holy May Erupt Out of the Ghostly Shame of our Language': On the Subconscious Materials in the Hebrew Language and Literature Eran Tzelgov: Ha-makom ve-shivro: Desire, Place and Myth in Moshe Smilansky's Khawadja Nazar Dana Keren-Yaar: Modernism of Her Own: Miriam Yalan-Stekelis and Trips Boys Take to where Dolls Grow Roni Miron: Historiography and the Problem of Historical Continuity: A Hermeneutical View of Baruch Kurzweill's Thinking Hadas Shabat-Nadir: The 'Yeshurun Effect' in the Poetry of the Seventies: Avot Yeshurun, Dan Pagis and Erez Biton Miriam Neiger: 'And I didn't say, "A vision for the end of days"': Eschatology in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai Anat Danziger: Four Exercises in Visual Poetrics: On the Poetry Album of Dalia Rabikovitch

Table of Contents: Elchanan Reiner - Joshua is Rashbi, Hatzor is Meron: On the Typology of a Galilean Foundation Myth James Nathan Ford and Alon Ten-Ami - An Incantation Bowl for Rav Mešaršia son of Qaqay Shulamit Elizur - Esa Meshali (I Shall Present my Lesson) Matti Huss - The Beginning of Joseph Ibn Shimeon’s Ne ' um Toviyahu ben Zidqiyahu Yosef Ofer - Why Did Nahmanides Misread the Inscription on the Sheqel Coin? Hannan Hever - The Trauma of the Lady of the Palace Bezalel Bar-Kochva - The Essaioi: A Fiction or Historical Reality? Rachel Elior - Essenes or ‘ha-Kohanim bnei Zaddok and Their Allies’ . A Response to Bezalel Bar Kokhva, ‘The Essaioi: A Fiction or Historical Reality?’

Articles in this volume: Ophir Minz-Manor – Figurative Language in Pre-Classical Piyyut: Between Biblical Models and Poetic Innovations Tali Artman-Partock - Literary Event and Historical Narrative: Between Rabbinic and Patristic Literature Gila Vachman – Poets' Language and Hints of Piyyutim in 'Midrash Chadash Al-Hatorah' Dina Stein – Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer and Seder Eliyahu: Preliminary Notes on Poetics and Imaginary Landscapes Gali Drucker Bar-Am – A Voyage between Voyages: Three Versions of The Travels of Benjamin the Third by Mendele Mokher Sforim David Fishelov – Frishman's Translation of Byron's Cain and its Significance Ariel Hirshfeld – Chaim Nahman Bialik's The Pool (Ha-Brekhah) – the Self as the World Aminadav Dykman – The Idea of Nativism in the Poetry of Esther Raab Tamar Yacobi – The Continuing Enigmatic Quality in the Late Poetry of Dan Pagis Doli Benhabib – Not Being a Shark – On the Fate of What was Abandoned in 1948 according to Yonim Betrafalgar by Sami Michael

There are abstracts of all the articles in English.

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