This volume, sixth in a series of studies by Prof. Yehuda Friedlander in modern Hebrew literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deals with the cultural-literary uniqueness of the debate between rabbis and maskilim in Lithuania in the ninetee

Collection of articles by distinguished scholars, among them friends and students of Prof. Mirsky. Besides the central subject, which is the poetry and liturgy of different communities, periods and styles, included also are studies on biblical exegesis an

This book illuminates halakhic issues as depicted in the struggle between Mitnagdim, Maskilim and Hasidism. It includes literary analyses of selected works of Hatam Sofer, Abraham Lieb Benjaminson, Yehuda Leib Gordon, Shmuel Joseph Agnon and Haim Hazaz.

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.

An analysis of the satiric works written by Israel of Zamosc and Mendel Landsberg, including a critical edition of Landsberg's unpublished manuscript.

R. Nachman of Braslav's surrealistic story, rooted in a sound theological concept, is analysed in this book, both as to its structure and its ideas.

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 works, two

What led the Haskalah writers to pen portraits of Eretz Israel during this pre-Zionist period? How did they overcome the problem of describing locations that they themselves had never seen? Is it possible to identify a "school'' of Eretz Israel descri