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Acknowledgments Writing a book is a personal process, which could not be possible without the support and the advice of so many dear people: family, friends, teachers, colleagues, and students. I would like to express my gratitude to the many people whom I had the good fortune of encountering throughout the years, and who helped me shape and reshape this book. I am so grateful to Yael Feldman for her guidance, wisdom, and support. I cannot say enough about her willingness to listen and to give insightful and useful advice. I am deeply grateful to Hannah Naveh, who always lent a sympathetic ear when my thoughts became tangled. Our long-term dialogue has been and is a constant source of inspiration and stimulation. It is my pleasure to express gratitude to my friend Taly Ravid, for carefully reading and commenting on countless revisions of this book. I thank Daniel Banai for his help with the translations. I greatly cherish the friendship of both, and I deeply value their constant support. I am also indebted to Dan Miron, Marianne Hirsch, Mary Louise Pratt, David Engel, and Nili Scharf Gold, who read earlier drafts of this book, for their shrewd suggestions. I owe a debt of gratitude to Sylvia Fuks Fried, executive director of the Tauber Institute and director of publications at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, for her enthusiastic support, to Giles Harvey for his profound editing, to Phyllis Deutsch, editor-in-chief of the University Press of New England for her insights, and to the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Brandeis University has become my academic home over the last few years. I am fortunate to enjoy the encouraging support of my colleagues in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. In particular I wish to thank those who have shown a special interest in the development of this book: Sylvia Barack Fishman, Ilan Troen, Jonathan Sarna, Marc Brettler, David Wright, Tzvi Abusch, Bernadette J. Brooten, ChaeRan Freeze, Eugene R. Sheppard , Jonathan Decter, Sharon Feiman-Nemser, and Vardit Ringvald. Excerpts of some chapters have been previously published elsewhere. An earlier version of chapter 1 was originally published in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender 19 (2010): 228–47 as “Forever Beholden: The x ][ Acknowledgments State of Orphanhood in the Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.” Earlier versions of chapters 4 and 7 were originally published in Teoryah uvikoret 28 (2006): 127–55 as “‘She Tried to Escape and Lost Her Senses’: Alienation and Madness in the Stories of Dahlia Ravikovitch.” An earlier version of part 4 was originally published in Khitmei or [Sparks of light: Essays about Dahlia Ravikovitch ’s oeuvre], eds. Hamutal Tsamir and Tamar S. Hess, 444–69, Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010, as “‘Hovering at a Low Altitude: Testimony and Complicity in the Political Writing of Dahlia Ravikovitch.” I thank each of these publishers for their generous permission to include the pieces in this book. I am thankful to Ido Kalir for his kind permission to use unpublished drafts of the poems “The Love of an Orange” (Ahavat tapuach hazahav), “On the road at night” (Omed al hakhevish), and “Clockwork Doll” (Bubah memukenet). I was deeply touched by his kindness in allowing me an unforgettable glance into Ravikovitch’s literary bequest. Finally, I greatly appreciate the financial support of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, the Henry M. MacCracken Fund, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. ...

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