The Second-Floor biographical essay presents for the first time the connection between the life history of writer Amalia Kahana-Carmon and her literary works. The details of this major writer’s personal life in Hebrew literature are revealed as ...
Manifestos
Restless Writings on the Brink of the 21st Century By Nana Ariel December 2018 Paperback Danacode 110-20263 In Stock Price: $40.00Internet Price: $34.00
This book examines the portrait of the 'talush' (the rootless character) in Modern Hebrew literature. Since the turn of the 20th century, this figure has been significant and central in Hebrew prose.
Emotional Disorientation
The Grotesque and Related Qualities in Poetry and the Arts By Reuven Zur May 2014 Paperback Danacode 110-20213 In Stock
This book explores the grotesque and related qualities in poetry (in Hebrew and European languages) from the 11th to the 20th century, in the visual arts and the opera.
The book is published jointly with Kinneret , Zmora Bitan, Dvir. In the opening chapter of his new book, Prof. Yigal Schwartz suggests a revolutionary basis for the historiography of modern Hebrew literature, based on mental-stylistic criteria.
This book traces the story of finding and deciphering an unknown manuscript of a Hebrew novel, and includes a re-evaluation of David Fogel’s works in light of its discovery, as well as a scientific edition of the novel.
Personal Reshuyot
A Literary Analysis of the Genre and Its Relation to Other Sacred Poetry By Idit Einat-Nov May 2012 Paperback Danacode 110-20176 In Stock
This book deals with the Hebrew liturgical poems from Spain known as “personal reshut”. Among students of Medieval Hebrew poetry these poems are considered to possess outstanding artistic merit and to stand at the apex of Spanish Jewish piyyut. ...