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With This Night by Leah Goldberg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41When she arrived in Palestine in 1935 at the age of twenty-four, Leah Goldberg was already known as a significant emerging poet in contemporary Hebrew literature. Today, mention of her name is apt to... -
Draw Me After: Poems by Peter Cole 9780374607876
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95"Cole's splendid ear orchestrates awakenings." -Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive Peter Cole's luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole... -
Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion: in The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg & in A Selection of Modern Paintings by Dr Ruth Dorot 9781845196011
Booksplease Price: £114.48This book draws parallels between literature and the arts, and between drama and painting, in terms of Time and Symbolism, as they appear in the play The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg, and in a... -
Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939 by Allison Schachter 9780810144361
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter... -
Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry by Adriana X. Jacobs
Booksplease Price: £71.55For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes... -
Israeli Holocaust Drama by Michael Taub
Booksplease Price: £21.26This first English anthology of Israeli Holocaust drama makes available five important Israeli dramatic works, focusing on the more controversial productions of the last two decades.Although it once... -
In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe by Efrat Gal-Ed 9783525306116
Booksplease Price: £58.02From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a... -
Hebrew Love Poems by David C. Gross 9780781804301
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Poets have been writing in Hebrew since Biblical times. One of the oldest tongues known to man, its rich simplicity has inspired poetry whose hallmarks are immediacy and passion. Although much of... -
Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter 9780199812639
Booksplease Price: £53.97Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal... -
Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter 9780199394753
Booksplease Price: £42.59Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates how the... -
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution by Karen Grumberg
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The... -
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution by Karen Grumberg 9780253042255
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The... -
Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry by Zohar Weiman-Kelman 9781438472232
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for...