The Haifa Municipality Avraham Kariv Prize in Literary Criticism, 1992. In this book the author illuminates the polemic-satiric elements of the works of Tuvia Feder, Meir Israel Bresselau and an anonymous writer. The texts of these satirical wor...
A critical edition of Kinath Haemeth by Y.L.’Myzes and Mishnath Elisha ben Abuya by M.L. Lilienblum. The role of the Rambam and Elisha ben Abuya as archetypes in Hebrew satire is demonstrated.
This work reveals the sources of modern Hebrew literature in Oriental Hebrew poetry, liturgy and Midrash and examines their influence on modern writing. The creative writer is presented both as an individual and as a member of a specific communi...
It is widely recognized that poetical and theological texts are by nature paradoxical. This book is a first attempt to explore the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic literature from this point of view. It includes a discussion of the typical antinomi...
The edited minutes of the only convention ever held by the Lehi movement (Lohamei Herut Yisrael) provide the most authoritative source of the opinions of its 120 members at the birth of the State of Israel. The inaccuracy of the stereotypes assi...