Israeli Literature: Reading List

Hayim Nahman Bialik 

• C.N. Bialik, C.N. Bialik: Collected Poems.  Ed. David Aberbach ( Overlook Duckworth, 2004)
• Bialik, Random Harvest: the Novellas of Bialik.  (Westview Press, 1999)
• Bialik, Songs from Bialik.  (Syracuse University Press, 2000)

Yosef Hayim Brenner

• Yosef Hayim Brenner, Breakdown and Bereavement.  (Toby Press, 2003)
• Brenner, Out of the Depths.  (Westview Press, 1992)

Devora Baron 

• Devora Baron, “The First Day” and Other Stories. (University of California Press, 2001)

S.Y. Agnon

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S.Y. Agnon, The Book That Was Lost and Other Stories.  (Schocken, 1996)

• Agnon, The Bridal Canopy.  (Syracuse University Press,
• Agnon, A Guest for the Night.  (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
• Agnon, In the Heart of the Seas.  (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
• Agnon, Only Yesterday.  (Princeton University Press, 2002)
• Agnon, Shira.  (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996)
• Agnon, A Simple Story. (Syracuse University Press, 2000)
• Agnon, Twenty-One Stories.  (Schocken, 1970)
• Agnon, Two Tales: Betrothed and Edo and Enam.  (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

Haim Hazaz

• Haim Hazaz, Gates of Bronze.  (Toby Press, 2005)
• Hazaz, The Sermon and Other Stories.  (Toby Press, 2005)

Aaron Megged

• Aaron Megged, Foiglman.  (Toby Press, 2003)
• Megged, The Living on the Dead.  (Toby Press, 2005)
• Megged, Mandrakes from the Holy Land.  (Toby Press, 2005)

Yehuda Amichai

• Yehuda Amichai, The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai.  (Sheep Meadow Press, 1988)
• Amichai, Open Closed Open: Poems.  (Harcourt, 2000)
• Amichai, Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems. (Sheep Meadow Press, 1992)
• Amichai, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. (University of California Press, 1996)
• Amichai, Travels.  (Sheep Meadow Press, 1986
• Amichai, The World is a Room and Other Stories.  (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984)
• Amichai, Yehuda Amichai: A Life in Poetry.  (Harper Perennial, 1995)

Amos Oz

• Amos Oz, Don’t Call it Night. (Harcourt, 1997)
• Oz, Elsewhere Perhaps. (Harvest Books, 1985)
• Oz, Fima. (Harvest Books, 1994)
• Oz, Hill of Evil Counsel. (Harcourt, 1991)
• Oz, My Michael. (Harcourt, 2005)
• Oz, The Panther in the Basement. (Harvest Books, 1998)
• Oz, A Perfect Peace. (Harvest Books, 1993)
• Oz, The Same Sea. (Harcourt, 2002)
• Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness.  (Harcourt, 2005)
• Oz, To Know a Woman.  (Harcourt, 1992)

A.B. Yehoshua

• A.B. Yehoshua, The Continuing Silence of a Poet.  (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998)
• Yehoshua, Five Seasons. (Harvest Books, 2004)
• Yehoshua, A Journey to the End of the Millenium.  (Harvest Books, 2000)
• Yehoshua, A Late Divorce.  (Harvest Books, 1993)
• Yehoshua, The Liberated Bride.  (Harvest Books, 2004)
• Yehoshua, The Lover.  (Harvest Books, 1993)
• Yehoshua, Mr. Mani.  (Harvest Books, 1993)
• Yehoshua, Open Heart.  (Harvest Books, 1997)
• Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem.  (Harcourt, 2006)

Aharon Appelfeld

• Aharon Appelfeld, Age of Wonders.  (David R. Godine, 2002)
• Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939.  (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2001)
• Appelfeld, Conversion.  (Knopf, 1999)
• Appelfeld, For Every Sin.  (Grove/Atlantic, 1996)
• Appelfeld, Healer.  (Grove/Atlantic, 1994)
• Appelfeld, Immortal Bartfuss. (Grove/Atlantic, 1994)
• Appelfeld, Iron Tracks.  (Schocken, 1999)
• Appelfeld, Katerina.  (Knopf, 2006)
• Appelfeld, The Story of a Life.  (Knopf, 2004)
• Appelfeld, To the Land of the Cattails.  (Grove/Atlantic, 1994)
• Appelfeld, Tzili.  (Grove/Atlantic, 1996)

Yoram Kaniuk

• Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected.  (Grove/Atlantic, 2000)
• Kaniuk, The Last Jew.  (Grove/Atlantic, 2006)

Sami Michael

• Sami Michael, Refuge. (Simon & Schuster, 1989)
• Michael, A Trumpet in the Wadi.  (Simon & Schuster, 2003)

Yoel Hoffman

• Yoel Hoffman, Bernhard.  (New Directions Publishing Corp., 2006)
• Hoffman, The Christ of Fish.  (New Directions Publishing Corp, 2006)
• Hoffman, The Heart Is Katmandu.  (New Directions Publishing Corp., 2001)
• Hoffman, Katschen and the Book of Joseph.  (New Directions Publishing Corp., 1998)
• Hoffman, The Shunra and the Schmetterling.  (New Directions Publishing Corp, 2004)

Haim Be’er

• Haim Be’er, Feathers (Brandeis University Press, 2006)
• Be’er, The Pure Element of Time (Brandeis University Press, 2002).

Batya Gur

• Batya Gur, Bethlehem Road Murder (HarperCollins, 2006)
• Gur, Literary Murder (HarperCollins, 1994)
• Gur, Murder Duet (HarperCollins, 2000)
• Gur, Murder in Jerusalem (HarperCollins, 2006)
• Gur, Murder on a Kibbutz (HarperCollins, 1995)
• Gur, The Saturday Morning Murder (HarperCollins, 1993)

Anton Shammas

• Anton Shammas, Arabesques.  (University of California Press, 2001)

David Grossman

• David Grossman, Be My Knife.  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)
• Grossman, Book of Intimate Grammar.  (Picador, 2002)
• Grossman, Her Body Knows.  (Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 2006)
• Grossman, See Under: Love.  (Picador, 2002)
• Grossman, Smile of the Lamb. (Picador, 2003)
• Grossman, Someone to Run With.  (Picador, 2005)
• Grossman, Zigzag Kid.  (Picador, 2003)

Zeruya Shalev

• Zeruya Shalev, Husband and Wife.  (Grove Press, 2003)
• Shalev, Love Life: A Novel. (Grove Press, 2001)

Orly Castel-Bloom

• Orly Castel-Bloom, Dolly City.  (Loki Books, 1997)
• Castel-Bloom, Human Parts.  (David R. Godine Publisher, 2004)

Etgar Keret

• Etar Keret, Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories. (St. Martin’s Press, 2004)
• Keret, Jetlag: Five Graphic Novels.  (Toby Press, 2006)
• Keret, Missing Kissinger.  (Chatto & Windus, 2007)
• Keret, The Nimrod Flipout: Stories.  (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006)
• Keret and Asaf Hanuka, Pizzeria Kamikaze.  (Alternative Comics, 2006)

Dorit Rabinyan

• Dorit Rabinyan, Persian Brides.  (Canongate Books, 2004)
• Rabinyan, Strand of a Thousand Pearls.  (Random House, 2003).

Sayed Kashua 

• Sayed Kashua, Dancing Arabs.  (Grove Press, 2004)
• Kashua, Let it Be Morning. (Grove Press, 2006)

Anthologies of Hebrew Literature

• Glenda Abramson (ed), The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories. (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Ammiel Alcalay (ed), Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing. (City Lights Publishers, 1996)
• Robert Alter (ed), Modern Hebrew Literature. (Behrman House Publishing, 1975)
• Joel Blocker (ed), Israeli Stories: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing.  (Schocken, 1965)
• Risa Domb (ed), New Women’s Writing From Israel. (Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 1996)
• Robert Friend (ed), Found in Translation: Modern Hebrew Poets.  (Toby Press, 2006)
• Miriyam Glazer (ed), Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry but Israeli Women Writers. (SUNY Press, 2000)
• Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Tamar Hess (eds), The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present. (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1999)
• Alan Lelchuk and Gershon Shaked (eds), 8 Great Hebrew Short Novels. (Toby Press, 2005)
• Esther Raizen (trans), No Rattling of Sabres: An Anthology of Israeli War Poetry. (University of Texas, 1996)
• Gershon Shaked (ed), Six Israeli Novellas.  (David R. Godine Publisher, 2002)

Yehuda

Pronounced: yuh-HOO-dah or yuh-hoo-DAH (oo as in boot), Origin: Hebrew, Judah, one of Joseph’s brothers in the Torah.

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