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Shaked Symposium: From the Association for Jewish Studies 2007 Conference
- Hebrew Studies
- National Association of Professors of Hebrew
- Volume 49, 2008
- p. 279
- 10.1353/hbr.2008.0016
- Article
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SHAKED SYMPOSIUM: FROM THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES 2007 CONFERENCE Marvin A. Sweeney Claremont School of Theology The following essays were originally presented at a special symposium dedicated to the late Israeli literary critic, Gershon Shaked, lz, at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, December 16–18, 2007. Special thanks go to Schachar Pinsker, Hebrew Studies Book Review Editor for Modern Hebrew language and literature, and to Smadar Shiffman, Hebrew Studies Associate Editor, for their efforts to bring this symposium to publication. The symposium includes: 1. Gershon Shaked’s History of Hebrew Narrative Fiction: A Zionist Enterprise (Avner Holtzman) 2. The Challenges of Writing a Literary History of Early Modernist Hebrew Fiction: Gershon Shaked and Beyond (Shachar Pinsker) 3. Reb Gershon and Reb Yudl: Thoughts on the Achievement of Gershon Shaked on the First Anniversary of his Death (Alan Mintz) 4. Inter-Generational Portraits: Agnon, Shaked, Gender and Narrative (Anne Golomb Hoffman) ...