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Overview
"Drawing from essays, letters, notebooks, poems, interviews, and other sources, Hebrew Writers on Writing offers a fresh look at well-known figures who helped shape modern Hebrew literature, while also introducing a host of fascinating yet little- or never-before translated writers. The volume begins in early twentieth-century Warsaw, wanders through the formative years of Hebrew modernism in Europe and Palestine, and explores the charged complexity of contemporary Israel." In the process, Hebrew Writers on Writing probes the shifting cultural and political landscape from which Hebrew emerged as a literary language and provides readers with an intimate vision of a startlingly rich and diverse body of work.Synopsis
Hebrew Writers on Writing offers a fresh look at well-known figures such as Haim Nahman Bialik and Yehuda Amichai, while also introducing a host of fascinating yet little- or never-before translated writers. Drawing from essays, letters, notebooks, poems, interviews, and other sources, it begins in early 20th-century Warsaw, wanders through the formative years of Hebrew modernism in Europe and Palestine, and explores the charged complexity of contemporary Israel. In the process, it probes, as no English-language volume has before, the shifting cultural and political landscape Hebrew emerged from, providing readers with an intimate vision of a startlingly rich and diverse body of work. These selections from 49 writers have been rendered by a group of some of the finest English translators in the field, and each piece is introduced by editor, noted poet, and MacArthur fellow Peter Cole.