Since 1948

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Under Construction: A Kind of Festschrift for Israeli Literature
Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff

Part One: Through Time: Silences, Voices, Echoes

Not One, but Five Moments of Silence: On the Poetics and Politics of Asking for Silence
Eran Tzelgov

Sounding the Mizrachi Voice: Hafla Thematics from the Ma'abarah to the PostArabic Novel
Michal Raizen

Anthological Poetics: Reading Amichai and Halfi in Liberal Prayerbooks
Wendy I. Zierler

Part Two: Across Language and Territory: Literature and Identity

When Yiddish Was Young in IsraelShachar PinskerA Canaanite Story: Language, National Identity, and the 1948 War
Yael Dekel

Hebrew Unbound: Alternative Homelands in the New World
Melissa Weininger

Part Three: Between the Lines: Rethinking Genres

From Here to Elsewhere and Back in IsraeliHebrew Children's Literature
Shai Ginsburg

"The pigs were my best friends": Animals and the Holocaust in Alona Frankel's Memoirs
Naomi B. Sokoloff

Stalagim: At the Limits of Israeli Literature
Eric Zakim

Part Four: Concerning Canons

Disruptive Nativity: The Poetry of Rina Shani and the Sixties in Israel
Riki Traum

Asaf Schurr and the Critique of Postmodernism in Contemporary Hebrew Literature
Yaron Peleg

"And the Winner Is...": The Economy of Literary Awards
Nancy E. Berg

Appendix: A Canaanite Story: "The Lord Be Praised"
Eitan Notev

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