A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics, Accent

Acknowledgments

xix Acknowledgments Iwould like to acknowledge the Fulbright Foundation for funding my research and writing at Tel Aviv University during the 2000–2001 academic year. In subsequent years the National Foundation for Jewish Culture prov vided support, as did the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women. I am also ind debted to the Indiana University College of Arts and Humanities Institute for funding my travel to archives in Israel, as well as to the Indiana University Jewish Studies Program for its support. The librarians and archivists at the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library, at the Sourasky library at Tel Aviv University, especially at the Education Archives there, as well as at the Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, all gave of their time generously. I am especially indebted to Michael Terry and Roberta Saltzman of the New York Public Library for their help. I would like to thank the Departments of Hebrew Literature and General Literature at Tel Aviv University where I was a visiting scholar for two years and where I conducted much of the research for this book. I benefited from the support of Shoshana Noy in the office of the Academic Secretariat, the guidance of Hannan Hever and Uzi Shavit, especially at the earliest stages of my research and writing, and the encouragement of Robert Alter and Celeste Langan at the University of California, Berkeley. I would also like to thank the students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Comparative Literature at Berkeley. I am grateful to Eliyahu Segal and Daniel Abrams for help of a more techn nical nature; to the late Elsie Goldstein; to Harry Fox and Michelle Molina who read and commented on parts of the manuscript; and to Shmuel Weinb berger for his hospitality, advice, and humor over many years. I am especially grateful to Hamutal Tsamir for sharing her insights at all stages of this proje - ect; to Olga Litvak for her generosity in reading the penultimate version of the manuscript; and to Jennifer Lewin for lending her considerable talents over the course of very many weeks at a critical stage of editing. I must also thank Steven Meed for enabling me to start writing this book and Alison Levin and Adele Reising for enabling me to complete it. During the trying year in which I wrote the final sections of this book, the late Lana Schwebel sustained me with her visits, her good sense, and her inimitable wit. Finally, I am most indebted to my sister, to whom this book is dedicated. Cambridge, April 2008 xx acknowledgments ...