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This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.
This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions and realities, and will foster a wealth of discussion about the meanings of homeland, exile, and diaspora; women's sexuality and spirituality; gender roles; the legacy of the Holocaust; the tensions and reconciliations of religion and secular life; the effects of war; and the power of memory.
In her introduction, Miriyam Glazer vividly reconstructs the diversities, tensions, and complexity of current Israeli literature, and the book reflects the multiculturality of modern-day Israel by including stories and poems originally written in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, and English. Brief biographical and critical introductions are provided for each writer, and the book features specially commissioned and new translations of twenty stories and seventy-five poems, many available here for the first time in English.
"This book significantly expands the canon of contemporary literature available to English-speaking readers through excellent translations of important writers. Glazer coherently organizes and introduces the work of, arguably, every significant Israeli woman poet and prose writer today through adept and readable translations." — Andrew Vogel Ettin, Wake Forest University
"This is a book of genuine distinction. The selection of writers and poets can scarcely be improved upon, and the translations are all of high quality. There is at present nothing in print in English comparable to this book in scope and variety." — Stanley F. Chyet, Hebrew Union College
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Short Stories
And She Is Joseph by Nurit ZarchiIntroduction to Selected Short Stories by Orly Castel-Bloom
Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek by Nurit Zarchi
Invisible Meaning by Ruth Almog
A Piece of Cake for Saul by Mira Magen
If Nella Could Do It by Shulamith Gilboa
The Fruit of Paradise by Leah Aini
Rest by Leah Anin
"It's Greek to You," She Said to Him by Savyon Liebrecht
Hunger by Nava Semel
Schlaffstunde by Yehudit Katzir
Two Hours on the Road by Shulamith Hareven
Gerbera Daisies at Half-Price by Mira Magen
Apples in Honey by Yehudit Hendel
Photograph by Ronit Matalon
A Thousand Shekels a Story by Orly Castel-BloomA special Section: Stories Translated from the Russian
The Woman Who Went Looking for a Walkie-Talkie by Orly Castel-Bloom
The Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox by Orly Castel-Bloom
Monologue of a Life Model by Dina RubinPart II. Poetry
Rough Casting by Elena Makarova
Yona Volach: In Memoriam
HebrewDahlia Ravikovitch
I Have a Stage in My Head
Tefillin
When You Come Sleep with Me
The Life You Have
Bird
Real Love Isn't What It SeemsHedva Harechavi
An Unusual Autumn
Hovering at a Low Altitude
Blood Heifer
1 x 2Raquel Chalfi
And It Is Still That Way
Already Night, Already Day
Reading the I ChingMaya Bejerano
Night Hair
I Made a New Memory for YouEsther Ettinger
States of War
From "Hymns of Job"
Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream BookChava Pinchas-Cohen
Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (I)
Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (II)
The Glass
Believe Me
Remebering Our FathersHamutal Bar Yosef
Her, Me, and Yochanan
My English Teacher
The Yearning of Karakashian
The Ineffable Name
Journey of a Doe
Jaffa, July 1948Agi Mishol
Reflections on a Dove
In the Library
An Angel on the Beach
EstateDevorah Amir
The Sacred Cow of Hardship
Gravity, Death
Shopping
After Fall, 1956Leah Aini
I Have Longings for My Dead
What Seeps In
Thoughts about Sari's Jump
The "Nightingale" of Uncle Yair
One Girl's DanceNidaa Khoury
Liquidation
In Their House
Shower
The Empress of Imagined Fertility
Death Is Your SalvationA Special Section: American Israeli Poets Writing in English
People of Fire
People of Pomegranates
People of Figs
People of Olives
Shirley Kaufman
Deja VuLinda Zisquit
Stones
Security
Job's Wife
The Mount of Olives
From "Unopened Letters"Rachel Tzvia Back
After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice
A Word before the Last about Loss
Notes: From the WaitKaren Alkalay-Gut
Untitles
Abu Salim, Healer
Gaza, Undated
After Eden
From "Between Bombardments: A Journal"
Kitzbuhl Church
Public Outcry
Transportation