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Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 1. The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon’s “Holocaust Fiction”

University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, Dec 30, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Binder or Slaughterer? The Rise and Fall of “Abraham”

Stanford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon’s “Holocaust Fiction”

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. eBooks, Sep 8, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Virgin Martyrs, Then and Now

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Flavius’ on Trial in Mandate Palestine, 1932–1945: Natan Bistritzky’s Hebrew Play and Lion Feuchtwanger’s German Trilogy

BRILL eBooks, May 16, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

Research paper thumbnail of No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction

... xii Preface Tabor Bannet, Janet Handler Burstein, Nurit Gertz, Nili Gold, Anne Golomb Hoffman... more ... xii Preface Tabor Bannet, Janet Handler Burstein, Nurit Gertz, Nili Gold, Anne Golomb Hoffman, Tzippi Keller, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, Alice ... the same decade by other (mostly male) authors, eg, David Grossman, Avram Heffner, Yoel Hoffmann, Anton Shammas, Yuval Shi-moni ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ruḥamah’s Daughter: From Hysteria to Her-Story in Ruth Almog’s Shorshei 'Avir

Research paper thumbnail of Re-inventing “Isaac” as a Military Hero

Stanford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Martyr, Victim, Sacrifice, Warrior

Stanford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of In Pursuit of Things Past: David Shahar and the Autobiography in Current Israeli Fiction

....in all of my encounters, not only with people but even with houses and trees and alleys and s... more ....in all of my encounters, not only with people but even with houses and trees and alleys and streets and sights and smells, I have always sensed something of the essence of the advent of memory. For all of them go on existing and living their lives year after year, even though they are situated outside the circles of our daily routines ? dead to us because they are external to us, outside our ken. Suddenly, their routines brush up against ours, and here they are rising up before us like Lazarus from the dead, to show us that their being dead to us was merely the result of the narrowness of the torch's beam, capable of illuminating only a small part of our path through the big, broad fields which lie outside our ken because of the curtain of darkness cutting them off from our field of vision, even when their abysses gape inside us.

Research paper thumbnail of And Rebecca Loved Jacob", But Freud Did Not

That the force of passionate love with all its adverse and tragic ramifications is one of the hig... more That the force of passionate love with all its adverse and tragic ramifications is one of the high points of the Jacob story is well known. And it is precisely this romantic feature that has made Jacob so accessible to modern literary reworkings, from Thomas Mann's Joseph trilogy (the first volume of which is devoted to "The Tales of Jacob") to Harold Bloom's recent hermeneutic fiction, The Book of J ("Before I became convinced that J was a woman, I tended to believe that Jacob was J's signature, a kind of self-representation" [1990, 209]). Less obvious is the fact that this ostensibly sudden effusion of passion is not as unpredictable as it may at first seem. Although unprecedented in the earlier portions of Genesis, it is subtly rationalized within the psychology of the Jacob cycle itself, which offers a compact but complete economy of family dynamics. It should come as no surprise that at the core of this economy we find a proliferation of the verb 'ahav (love). As we shall see, this single Hebrew root covers a variety of affects and appetites that range in the language of modern psychology from transference and maternal love, bonding and attachment, to gluttony and dependence, desire and lust.

Research paper thumbnail of “Identification-With-The-Aggressor” or the “Victim Complex ”? Holocaust and Ideology in Israeli Theater: Ghetto by Joshua SOBOL1

Modern Judaism, 1989

... 1963; Moshe Shamir's The Heir, 1963; and even Yaffa Eliach and Uri Assaf's ... more ... 1963; Moshe Shamir's The Heir, 1963; and even Yaffa Eliach and Uri Assaf's The Last Jew, 1977, or Yossi Hadar's recent ... Forty Years after the Holocaust-Thera-peutic aspects," Sihot (a Hebrew Journal for psychotherapy), 1987, reported by Amalya Argaman-Barnea in Yediot ...

Research paper thumbnail of Poetics and Politics: Israeli Literary Criticism between East and West

Proceedings, 1985

... Page 8. 16 YAEL S. FELDMAN [8] ... 1969, pp. 109-139) and "Hamelech be-Mabat &am... more ... Page 8. 16 YAEL S. FELDMAN [8] ... 1969, pp. 109-139) and "Hamelech be-Mabat 'Ironi: 'al Tahbulotav shell ha-Mesapper be-Sippur David u-Bat-Sheva u-Shtey Haflagot la-Te'oria shel ha-Proza" by Menakhem Perry and Meir Stemberg (HaSifrut 1:2, Summer 1968, pp. 263-292). ...

Research paper thumbnail of From Dostoyevsky to Brenner

Research paper thumbnail of Martyr, Victim, Sacrifice, Warrior

Research paper thumbnail of Re-inventing “Isaac” as a Military Hero

Research paper thumbnail of Modernism and Cultural Transfer

Research paper thumbnail of The Romantic Hebraism of Gabriel Preil

Prooftexts, 1982

Page 1. YAEL SAGIV-FELDMAN The Romantic Hebraism of Gabriel Preil An Island and Its Retreating Se... more Page 1. YAEL SAGIV-FELDMAN The Romantic Hebraism of Gabriel Preil An Island and Its Retreating Sea A poem comes in any weather, then creates its own climate, planting gardensnever touched by gold, or making certain ...

Research paper thumbnail of Isaac or Oedipus? Jewish Tradition and the Israeli Aqedah

Biblical studies, cultural …, 1998

... Marcia Ian [T] he formalist reading of the high literary text, which many of us were trained ... more ... Marcia Ian [T] he formalist reading of the high literary text, which many of us were trained to do... ... What is precisely meant by it—passive victimhood, stoic heroism, ideological martyrdom, or fanatic aggression (the range is rather broad!)—is quite another question, one that will ...

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 1. The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon’s “Holocaust Fiction”

University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks, Dec 30, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Binder or Slaughterer? The Rise and Fall of “Abraham”

Stanford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Unreasonable Economy of Martyrdom in S. Y. Agnon’s “Holocaust Fiction”

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. eBooks, Sep 8, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Virgin Martyrs, Then and Now

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Flavius’ on Trial in Mandate Palestine, 1932–1945: Natan Bistritzky’s Hebrew Play and Lion Feuchtwanger’s German Trilogy

BRILL eBooks, May 16, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

Research paper thumbnail of No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction

... xii Preface Tabor Bannet, Janet Handler Burstein, Nurit Gertz, Nili Gold, Anne Golomb Hoffman... more ... xii Preface Tabor Bannet, Janet Handler Burstein, Nurit Gertz, Nili Gold, Anne Golomb Hoffman, Tzippi Keller, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, Alice ... the same decade by other (mostly male) authors, eg, David Grossman, Avram Heffner, Yoel Hoffmann, Anton Shammas, Yuval Shi-moni ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ruḥamah’s Daughter: From Hysteria to Her-Story in Ruth Almog’s Shorshei 'Avir

Research paper thumbnail of Re-inventing “Isaac” as a Military Hero

Stanford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Martyr, Victim, Sacrifice, Warrior

Stanford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of In Pursuit of Things Past: David Shahar and the Autobiography in Current Israeli Fiction

....in all of my encounters, not only with people but even with houses and trees and alleys and s... more ....in all of my encounters, not only with people but even with houses and trees and alleys and streets and sights and smells, I have always sensed something of the essence of the advent of memory. For all of them go on existing and living their lives year after year, even though they are situated outside the circles of our daily routines ? dead to us because they are external to us, outside our ken. Suddenly, their routines brush up against ours, and here they are rising up before us like Lazarus from the dead, to show us that their being dead to us was merely the result of the narrowness of the torch's beam, capable of illuminating only a small part of our path through the big, broad fields which lie outside our ken because of the curtain of darkness cutting them off from our field of vision, even when their abysses gape inside us.

Research paper thumbnail of And Rebecca Loved Jacob", But Freud Did Not

That the force of passionate love with all its adverse and tragic ramifications is one of the hig... more That the force of passionate love with all its adverse and tragic ramifications is one of the high points of the Jacob story is well known. And it is precisely this romantic feature that has made Jacob so accessible to modern literary reworkings, from Thomas Mann's Joseph trilogy (the first volume of which is devoted to "The Tales of Jacob") to Harold Bloom's recent hermeneutic fiction, The Book of J ("Before I became convinced that J was a woman, I tended to believe that Jacob was J's signature, a kind of self-representation" [1990, 209]). Less obvious is the fact that this ostensibly sudden effusion of passion is not as unpredictable as it may at first seem. Although unprecedented in the earlier portions of Genesis, it is subtly rationalized within the psychology of the Jacob cycle itself, which offers a compact but complete economy of family dynamics. It should come as no surprise that at the core of this economy we find a proliferation of the verb 'ahav (love). As we shall see, this single Hebrew root covers a variety of affects and appetites that range in the language of modern psychology from transference and maternal love, bonding and attachment, to gluttony and dependence, desire and lust.

Research paper thumbnail of “Identification-With-The-Aggressor” or the “Victim Complex ”? Holocaust and Ideology in Israeli Theater: Ghetto by Joshua SOBOL1

Modern Judaism, 1989

... 1963; Moshe Shamir's The Heir, 1963; and even Yaffa Eliach and Uri Assaf's ... more ... 1963; Moshe Shamir's The Heir, 1963; and even Yaffa Eliach and Uri Assaf's The Last Jew, 1977, or Yossi Hadar's recent ... Forty Years after the Holocaust-Thera-peutic aspects," Sihot (a Hebrew Journal for psychotherapy), 1987, reported by Amalya Argaman-Barnea in Yediot ...

Research paper thumbnail of Poetics and Politics: Israeli Literary Criticism between East and West

Proceedings, 1985

... Page 8. 16 YAEL S. FELDMAN [8] ... 1969, pp. 109-139) and "Hamelech be-Mabat &am... more ... Page 8. 16 YAEL S. FELDMAN [8] ... 1969, pp. 109-139) and "Hamelech be-Mabat 'Ironi: 'al Tahbulotav shell ha-Mesapper be-Sippur David u-Bat-Sheva u-Shtey Haflagot la-Te'oria shel ha-Proza" by Menakhem Perry and Meir Stemberg (HaSifrut 1:2, Summer 1968, pp. 263-292). ...

Research paper thumbnail of From Dostoyevsky to Brenner

Research paper thumbnail of Martyr, Victim, Sacrifice, Warrior

Research paper thumbnail of Re-inventing “Isaac” as a Military Hero

Research paper thumbnail of Modernism and Cultural Transfer

Research paper thumbnail of The Romantic Hebraism of Gabriel Preil

Prooftexts, 1982

Page 1. YAEL SAGIV-FELDMAN The Romantic Hebraism of Gabriel Preil An Island and Its Retreating Se... more Page 1. YAEL SAGIV-FELDMAN The Romantic Hebraism of Gabriel Preil An Island and Its Retreating Sea A poem comes in any weather, then creates its own climate, planting gardensnever touched by gold, or making certain ...

Research paper thumbnail of Isaac or Oedipus? Jewish Tradition and the Israeli Aqedah

Biblical studies, cultural …, 1998

... Marcia Ian [T] he formalist reading of the high literary text, which many of us were trained ... more ... Marcia Ian [T] he formalist reading of the high literary text, which many of us were trained to do... ... What is precisely meant by it—passive victimhood, stoic heroism, ideological martyrdom, or fanatic aggression (the range is rather broad!)—is quite another question, one that will ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lelo Heder Mishelahen: Migdar uLeumiut biYetziratan shel Sofrot Israeliot  (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002).

This HEBREW updated rendition of NO ROOM OF THEIR OWN was the recipient of The Friedman Memorial ... more This HEBREW updated rendition of NO ROOM OF THEIR OWN was the recipient of The Friedman Memorial Prize for Hebrew Literature, 2003.

Research paper thumbnail of TEACHING the HEBREW BIBLE as LITERATURE

This is Volume 25 in the popular MLA series Approaches to World Literature (ISSN 1059-1133)/ Edi... more This is Volume 25 in the popular MLA series Approaches to World Literature (ISSN 1059-1133)/ Edited by Barry N. Olshen and Yael S. Feldman, it addresses a broad range of literary approaches to specific texts in the Hebrew Bible. Like other volumes in the series, it surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text and includes an extensive bibliography. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find this volume particularly helpful.

Research paper thumbnail of MODERNISM and CULTURAL TRANSFER: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilingualism. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1986. xii, 224 pp. with bibliography and index

Research paper thumbnail of NO ROOM OF THEIR OWN: GENDER AND NATION IN ISRAELI WOMEN'S FICTION (Columbia UP,  1999)

A finalist in the 2000 National Jewish Book Award, No Room of Their Own is a comparative analysi... more A finalist in the 2000 National Jewish Book Award, No Room of Their Own is a comparative analysis of recent Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models, from Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to Marilyn French and Marie Cardinal. Reviewed in 25 journals. Feldman shows the richness and subtleties of Israeli women's fiction as she explores the themes of gender and nation, as well as the (non)representation of the "New Hebrew Woman" in five authors—the "foremothers" of the contemporary boom in Israeli Women's fiction: Amalia Kahana-Carmon (Up on Montifer, With Her on Her Way Home), Shulamith Hareven (City of Many Days, Thirst, The Vocabulary of Peace), Netiva BenYehuda (The Palmach Trilogy), Ruth Almog (Women, The Story of a [Writer's] Block, Roots of Air), and Shulamit Lapid (Gei Oni).

Research paper thumbnail of GLORY AND AGONY: ISSAC'S  SACRIFICE AND NATIONAL NARRATIVE (Stanford UP, 2010)

Finalist in the 2010 National Jewish Book Awards, GLORY and AGONY is the first history of the shi... more Finalist in the 2010 National Jewish Book Awards, GLORY and AGONY is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking on human sacrifice, violence, and martyrdom, this study draws a complex picture that provides multiple, sometimes contradictory insights into the genesis and gender of national sacrifice.

Extending back over two millennia, this study unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female—Isaac, Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus. Glory and Agony traces the birth of national sacrifice out of the ruins of religious martyrdom, exposing the sacred underside of Western secularism in Israel as elsewhere. Reviewed in 12 journals; see review samples in
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=10659