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ID:
170707
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This article addresses an unstudied literary discourse pattern in Israeli literature, which it terms an ‘empty discourse’ on Israeli wars, suggesting that they have become a simultaneously absent and present theme in Israeli literature. The analysis is based on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, which serves to explain the mutual influence between the reality of war and war literature. Based on the literary analysis presented, the article suggests a wider typology for examining this issue in contemporary Israeli literature published after the 2006 Lebanon War.
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177746
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This article discusses the unique nano-poetics and its nano-representation of the Israeli milieu, as found in Yossel Birstein’s short-short bus-stories. While these stories demonstrate the author’s poetics, they also constitute a miniature replica of Israeli society, emphasising the following four major aspects of this society: (1) the tension between the Jewish past and the Israeli present; (2) the complex dynamics between private and public life; (3) the gap between newcomers and veteran immigrants; and (4) a mentality dominated by nervous tension combined with the unique form of audacity known as chutzpah. Birstein presents the bus both as the inspiration for and as the object of his writing, and this narrative framework showcases the many variants in Israeli culture.
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ID:
112530
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2012.
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Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. Historically, Amichai belongs to the group of writers who founded "Israeli literature" in the 1950s and early '60s, and were dubbed the "Generation of the State" because they were the first authors to publish in the State of Israel after it was established. Amichai and his peers rebelled against their predecessors' grandiose, ideological verse and proclaimed that "understatement" and individualism would be two of their guiding principles. While doing research for my book, Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet (UPNE, 2008), I discovered 100 love letters that Amichai sent from Haifa to New York during 1947-1948. These are both a literary account and a historical testimony of great value. Amichai's portraits of Haifa during those months have never been discussed. In this article, I describe the way the letters bring to life Haifa's magnificent landscapes and the struggle of the Jewish city from Amichai's unique point of view.
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