Physical Description
256 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Jewish dreams and nightmares
Sentimentalizing the Jews
The apocalyptic temper
Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish imagination
Hebrew literature and the paradox of survival
Saul Bellow : a dissent from modernism
Bernard Malamud : Jewishness as a metaphor
S.Y. Agnon : the alphabet of holiness
Elie Wiesel : between hangman and victim
Confronting the Holocaust
The Israeli novel. "The two generations" (1962) ; "Language and realism" (1966)
The days of Ziklag : in search of a cultural past
The kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky
Poetry in Israel.
Notes
Jewish dreams and nightmares -- Sentimentalizing the Jews -- The apocalyptic temper -- Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish imagination -- Hebrew literature and the paradox of survival -- Saul Bellow : a dissent from modernism -- Bernard Malamud : Jewishness as a metaphor -- S.Y. Agnon : the alphabet of holiness -- Elie Wiesel : between hangman and victim -- Confronting the Holocaust -- The Israeli novel. "The two generations" (1962) ; "Language and realism" (1966) -- The days of Ziklag : in search of a cultural past -- The kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky -- Poetry in Israel.
