PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Published

1994 Lo Kabrosh: Gilgule Imagim Ve-tavniyot Be-shirat Yehuda Amichai (Not Like A Cypress: Transformations of Images and Structures in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai), Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Schocken Publishing, 224 pages [in Hebrew]. Winner of State of Israel, Ministry of Science and Culture Award, Best First Book in Hebrew Literature

ARTICLES

Published (* Refereed)

2005* “‘And the Migration of my Parents’: The German Home in Amichai’s Writings,” in Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures. Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2005. pp. 171-185

2004* “Yehuda Amichai – Haifa, Letters” in Keshet ha-hadasha (Quarterly for Literature, Theory, Criticism) Vol. 2, spring issue 7-13. [in Hebrew].

2003* “Notes on Love and War in the Life of Yehuda Amichai” in Israel Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 19, #1 fall issue 57-71.

2002* “ ‘A Ship that Carries Longing’: Travel as Semiotic Sign in Amichai’s Poetry ,” in Mi-Ka’n Vol. 3, winter issue, 86-100 (Be’er Sheva: Ben Gurion University) [in Hebrew].

2002* “Reading the Poet Zvia Ben-Yosef Ginor,” in Hebrew Higher Education, Vol. 10, 73-79 (NAPH, University of Wisconsin) [in Hebrew].

1999 “A Thousand Years since the Ban of Rabbi Gershom,” in Hadoar, vol. LXXVIII, No. 21, 23-24 [in Hebrew]

1997* “Re-reading It is the Light, Lea Goldberg’s Only Novel,” in Prooftexts, 17, 245-264

1995* “Poetry as Mother Language,” in Efes Shtaim, spring issue, 58-68 [in Hebrew]

1995 “The Book as a River: Zen Buddhism and Western Rationalism in Yoel Hoffman’s Bernhard,”Alei Siah, fall, 67-72 [in Hebrew]

1994* “Bernhard's Journey: The Challenges of Yoel Hoffmann's Writing,” Jewish Studies Quarterly, No.1 (Berlin: Freie Universität), 271-287

1994* “A Burning Bush or a Fire of Thorns: Toward a Revisionary Reading of Amichai's Poetry,” in Prooftexts, 14, 49-69

1992* “Flowers, Fragrances and Memories: The Different Functions of Plant-Images in Amichai's Later Poetry,” Hebrew Studies, vol. XXXIII, 71-92

1991* “And the Vows are Not Vows: On Amichai's Later Poetry,” Siman Kri'a, Tel Aviv University, No. 22, 361-378 [in Hebrew]

1984* “Images in Transformation in the Recent Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,” Prooftexts, 4, 142-152

In Press (* Refereed)

2005* “Mysticism and Messiahs in the Poetry of Binyamin Shvili,” in Religion and Religiosity in Modern Jewish and Islamic Literatures , G. Abramson and H. Kilpatrick eds. Rutledge, 27 page manuscript

Accepted for Publication

* “German Reverberations in the Works of Yoel Hoffmann, Natan Zach, Dan Pagis, Aharon Applefeld and Yehuda Amichai,” in Alpayim [in Hebrew] 23 page manuscript.

* “To Walk on the ‘Inner Streets’: Yoel Hoffmann’s Ephraim” in Bikoret u-parshanut (Bar Ilan University) 15 page manuscript [in Hebrew].

CHAPTERS/ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES

Published (* Refereed)

2003 “Dahlia Ravikovitch’s ‘Hovering at a Low Altitude’ as a Lyrical Poem,” in Reading Hebrew Literature: Critical Discussions of Six Modern Texts, Alan Mintz, ed. (Hanover & London: University Press of New England). 221-231

2002* “Amichai’s Now and in Other Days and Open Closed Open: A Poetic Dialogue,” in Festschrift in Honor of Arnold Band, William Cutter & David C. Jacobson, eds. (Providence: Brown University Judaic Studies). 465-477

2001* “On With Her on Her Way Home by Amalia Kahana-Carmon” in Sifrut Ve-Hevra Ba-Tarbut Ha-`Ivrit Ba-Me’ah Ha-`Esrim (Literature and Society in Hebrew Culture in the Twentieth Century), eds. Y. Bar-El, Y. Schvartz and T. Hess (Jerusalem: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Keter Pub.) 287-301 [in Hebrew]

2001* “Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity,” in Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, Emily Miller Budick, ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press) 235-258

1999 “The Repressed German Sounds in Hebrew Literature: The Creative Betrayal of Mother Tongue as Part of Constructing a National Identity,” in Jüdischer Almanach 2000, Anne Birkenhauer, trans. (Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag, 1999) 24-38 [in German]

1997* “Applefeld’s Novel The Skin and the Gown as a Text of Enigma,” in Ben Kefor Le-`Ashan: Mehkarim Bi-tzirato shel Aharon Applefeld (Between Frost & Smoke: Studies in the Work of Aharon Applefeld), Y. Ben Mordechai and I. Parush, eds. (Be’er Sheva: Ben Gurion University Pub.),195-203 [in Hebrew]

1997* “The ‘Feminine’ in Yehuda Amichai's Poetics,” in The Experienced Soul: Studies in Amichai, Glenda Abramson, ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press) 77-92

1994 “After word,” in Yehuda Amichai: Mivhar Shirim (Yehuda Amichai: Selection of Poems) (Tel Aviv: Schocken Publishing) 97-113 [in Hebrew]

1993 “Staying in the Place of Danger: The Disobedient, Poetic ‘I’ of Dahlia Ravikovitch,” in To Speak or To Be Silent: The Paradox of Disobedience in the Lives of Women, Lena Ross, ed. (Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications) 97-108

In Press:

2005* “The Search for the Mother: A Mystical Journey,” in Festschrift in Honor of Dan Miron, Hannan Hever, ed. (Jerusalem: Magnes Publishing, Hebrew University) [in Hebrew] 16 page manuscript

ENTRIES FOR ENCYCLOPEDIAS ET AL.

Published

1996 “Amichai,” “Applefeld,” “Bialik,” “Hebrew Literature,” “Hareven,” “Hoffmann,” “Kahana-Carmon,” “Ravikovitch,” “Wallach:” entries in Encyclopedia of the Middle East, Richard Bulliet and Riva Simon, eds. (New York: McMillian Pub. & The Mid-East Institute, Columbia University) 137, 165, 116-119, 774, 812-813, 1522-1523

1995 “After word” for Yoel Hoffmann's Christ of Fishes in Critical Mass (special issue of Conjunctions on world literature), Bradford Morrow, ed. vol. 24 (Annandale on Hudson, NY: Bard College)

1993 “Hebrew Love Poetry,” in The New Updated Princeton University Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 711-712 [see p. xiii]

1993 “Introduction to Israeli Feature issue,” in Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation, vol. XXVIII (New York: Columbia University) 3-5

REVIEWS

Published (* Refereed)

2004* “No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli

Women’s Fiction by Yael Feldman” in The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 94, No. 2 spring 428-434, review

1997* “Quest for the Soul: On Ha-Shiva me-Hodu by A.B. Yehoshua,” Review of Open Heart by A.B. Yehoshua in Edebiyat, vol.7, 393-398, review

1996 “Broken Wings: Dancing on the Water, A Novel by Lily Perry,” in Modern Hebrew Literature, fall/winter No.17, 36-37, review

1996 “Soul Poems: Natan Zach’s Because I am Around,” in Modern Hebrew Literature, fall, No. 19, 42-44, review

1994 “A Review of a Conference at Oxford University on Amichai,” in Hadoar, vol. LXXIV No. 1, 18-20 [in Hebrew], review

1993 “To Reach the Source: Amalia Kahana-Carmon,” in Modern Hebrew Literature, No. 10, 43-46, review

1992 “A Tale of an Uprooted Philodendron: The Narrative of Y. Kronzon,” in Hadoar, vol. 71, No. 19,18-19 [in Hebrew], review

TRANSLATION

Published

1993 “Lying on the Water,” poem by Dahlia Ravikovitch, in Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation, vol. XXVIII (New York: Columbia University) 167-168, translation