Fb2 Sleep Walkers and other stories: The Arab in Hebrew Fiction ePub

A Three Continents book. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182).

A Three Continents book.

In Sleepwalkers and Other Stories, noted Israeli writer and literary critic Ehud Ben-Ezer presents short stories and excerpts from novels, dating from 1906 to 1994, that trace the place of Arabs in Jewish Israeli consciousness.

Everything hummed of summer, like a golden beehive. A whirlpool of gleaming mountain-fields, olive hills, and a sky ablaze with an intense silence blinded us for mo- ments and so beguiled our hearts that ‘one longed for a word of redeeming joy. And yet in the midst of the distant fields shepherds were calmly leading their flocks with the tranquil grace of fields and mountains and a kind of easy unconcern-the unconcern of good days when there was yet no evil in the world to forewarn of other evil things to come

Ben-Ezer, Ehud, ed. Sleepwalkers and Other Stories: The Arab in Hebrew Fiction.

Ben-Ezer, Ehud, ed. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt.

SIDELIGHTS: Ehud Ben-Ezer once told CA: "The Ben-Ezer (Raab) family has been living in Palestine since 1875. Yehuda Raab (Ben-Ezer), my grandfather, was one of the first settlers of Petah-Tikva in 1878, when that first Jewish colony in Palestine was founded. Of the Ben-Ezer works that have seen English translation, one of the best known is his retelling of an old folktale, Hosni the Dreamer: An Arabian Tale.

In addition to fighting the Arabs, the Jews in Palestine had to contend with the forces of nature, the climate and disease. The story opens in 1902 and goes on to describe a utopian society set in 1923.

The Arab in Hebrew Fiction. In the Hebrew literature of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, the East exerts a romantic fascination, exemplified by the image of the Arab and the Arab world. In addition to fighting the Arabs, the Jews in Palestine had to contend with the forces of nature, the climate and disease. It was dangerous to even ride from one settlement to another. Palestine is now flourishing, thanks to the economic and cultural riches that the Jewish immigrants brought with them.

Tracing the portrait of Arabs through the twentieth century, Ben-Ezer selects excerpts that make clear how Jewish writing in Hebrew has gone through distinct stages.

Tracing the portrait of Arabs through the twentieth century, Ben-Ezer selects excerpts that make clear how Jewish writing in Hebrew has gone through distinct stages. Then, starting with Theodor Herzl and until World War I, sprung up the motif of Arabs who appreciated Zionism as a source of economic development for themselves and who saw Zionists as Semitic brothers with whom to form a political alliance.

Stories by Jewish writers on relations with Arabs

Stories by Jewish writers on relations with Arabs. They range from Amos Oz's Nomad and Viper, on a Jewish woman's love-hate relationship with a Bedouin, to Sami Michael's Refuge, in which an Arab poet is branded a traitor for having a Jewish girlfriend. No current Talk conversations about this book.

Ehûd Ben-’Ezer, Breakers through and beleaguered; studies in the young Israeli literature,Google Scholar

Ehûd Ben-’Ezer, Breakers through and beleaguered; studies in the young Israeli literature,Google Scholar. Keshet, Vol. 10, 1968, pp. 124-160 (in Hebrew.

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