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World Cup Wishes
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 17.34Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final - four years from now - we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is how World Cup Wishes opens, and from here we watch what happens to their wishes and... more...
The Good Psychologist
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 7.99"Noam Shpancer portrays the oft-hidden world of psychotherapy with unparalleled authenticity, compassion, and wit . . . An astonishing debut."?Jonathan Kellerman Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel opens as a psychologist reluctantly takes on a new client?an exotic dancer whose severe anxiety is keeping her from the stage. The psychologist, a... more...
Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00Originally published in 2001, this book surveys what has been achieved in recent research on medieval Hebrew language and texts. more...
Literary Passports
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 60.00Literary Passports is the first book to explore Hebrew modernist fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. more...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 65.00The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution. But the overwhelming majority of Jewish emigrants... more...
The Flower of Anarchy
University of California Press 2003; US$ 21.95Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the... more...
A Poetics of Trauma
Brandeis University Press 2012; US$ 34.99Astute analysis of the work of a great Israeli poet through the lens of psychoanalysis, gender, nationalism, and trauma theory more...
The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
University of California Press 2013; US$ 24.95Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses... more...
Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada
BRILL 2005; US$ 191.00This study focuses on the earliest period of creativity in the life of Judah Halevi (1075-1141), the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, and offers a portrait of a unique circle of Hebrew poets centering on the Muslim city-kingdom of Granada. more...
Iberian Jewish Literature
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 28.00This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian ... more...









