Periodicals and Collected Essays

PERIODICALS AND COLLECTED ESSAYS compiled by David Marcus MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE. Volumes 20-21 (l998). Part One: Dialogues Between Writers. Yoram Kaniuk and Etgar Keret, ''The Writing Probably Derives from Some Brain Defect in Us:' pp. 4-8; A. B. Yehoshua and Dorit Rabinyan, "A Five-Part Interview with A. B. Yehoshua," pp. 9-13; Natan Zach and Nissim Calderon, "Fragments," pp. 14-17; Uri Orlev and Nava Semel, "Telling the Life Story of Death," pp. 18-23. Part Two: Fifty Years: Hebrew Literature Then and Now. Excerpts from stories, novels, and poems. . 1. "Feel for the Landscape," pp. 23-29. Moshe Shamir, He Walked in the Fields; Nava Semel, Night Games; Nathan Yonathan, We Had It All; Hava Pinchas-Cohen, A Different Countenance. 2. "Love:' pp. 30-35. Sholomo Nitzan, Togetherness; Tsruya Shalev, Love Life; T. Carmi, Our Youthful Laughter; Tamir Greenberg, On the Balcony. 3. "Childhood," pp. 36~2. Nissim Aloni, Shmiel; !tamar Levy, Morgana. Morgana; Hezy Leskly, I'm Six Years Old. Out on a Walk with My Parents. Saturday Afternoon; Yehuda Amichai, When I was a Child. 4. "Between the Kibbutz and the City," pp. 42~8. Aharon Megged, Moshaioff and Son; Dorit Abusch, Fallen Man; Ozer Rabin, The Kibbutz. Village-of-the-Heart; Ronit Leibermensh, Women Booze in Tel Aviv. 5. "Holocaust," pp. 49-53. Yonat and Alexander Sened, Between the Living and the Dead; Etgar Keret, Shoes; Dvora Amir, Memory of a Description; Amir Gilboa, Isaac. 6. "War," pp. 54-59. S. Yizhar, The Days ofZiklag; Gid Nevo, So Far; Haim Gouri, Prayer; Amir Or, Attention! 7. "Immigrant Absorption," pp. 60-70. Hanoch Barlov, Each One Had Six Wings; Leah Aini, Image; Ben-Zion Tomer, Immigrant Housing; Eitan N. Glass, A Poem. 8. "Social Critique," pp. 71-77. Benjamin Tammuz, The Life of Elyakum; Orly Castel-Bloom, Where am I; A. Hillel, The Banquet; Ronny Someck, Handcuffs. Street Poem. Plus an editorial by Gerson Shaked and nine book reviews. Hebrew Studies 40 (1999) 406 Periodicals and Collected Essays AGENDAS FOR THE STUDY OF MIDRASH IN THE TWENTY· FIRST CENTURY. Marc Lee Raphael, ed. pp. 136. Williamsburg, VA: The College of William and Mary, 1999. Paper, $11.00. Alan T. Levenson, "Agendas for the Study of Midrash in the TwentyFirst Century: Introduction," pp. 1-3; Steven D. Fraade, '''Comparative Midrash' Revisited: The Case of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Midrash," pp. 4-17; David J. Halperin, "Origen and Seder Eliyahu: A Meeting of Midrashic Trajectories?" pp. 1~2; Lewis M. Barth, "Is Every Medieval Hebrew Manuscript a New Composition? The Case of Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer," pp. 43-62; Dvora E. Weisberg, "Men Imagining Women Imagining God: Gender Issues in Classical Midrash," pp. 63-83; Marc Bregman, "Seeing With the Sages: Midrash as Visualization in the Legends of the Aqedah," pp. 84-100; David H. Richter, "Farewell, My Concubine: The Difficult, the Stubborn, and the Outrage of Gibeah," pp. 101-122; Alan T. Levenson, "Christian Author, Jewish Book? Methods and Sources in Thomas Mann's Joseph," pp. 123-136. JEWISH STUDIES: JOURNAL OF THE WORLD UNION OF JEWISH STUDIES. Volume 38 (1998). English Section. The Centennial of the First Zionist Congress. Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, "Did Zionism Bring the Jews Back to History?" pp. 9*30 *; Arthur Hertzberg, "The Meaning of Zionism for the Diaspora," pp. 31*-42*; Israel Kolatt, "Political Zionism and the Entrance of the Jews into History," pp. 43*-56*; Ekkehard Stegemann, "The Sudden Appearance of the Jews in 'Secular History': Zionism and Christianity," pp. 57*-72*; Miroslav Hroch, "Zionism as a European National Movement," pp. 73*-83*. Computers in Jewish Studies. Ellis Weinberger, "Remote Access to the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Facsimiles and Subject-based Data," pp. 85*-89*. Hebrew Section. The Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Menachem Elon, "Opening Remarks," pp. 7-13; Gershon Shaked, "Jerusalem in Hebrew Literature," pp. 15-32; Eliezer Schweid, "The State of the Jewish People 50 Years After the Holocaust and the Revival," pp. 33-39. Hebrew Studies 40 (1999) 407 Periodicals and Collected Essays The History ofJewish Studies and the Ideologies ofIts Founders. Moshe Idel, "The Function of Symbols in G. G. Scholem," pp. 43-72; Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, '''Without Regard for External Considerations'-The...