Dreaming the Actual: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers

418 Pages·2000·19.79 MB·English

by  Miriyam Glazer

Dreaming the Actual
SUNY series in
Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
Sarah Blacher Cohen, editor
Dreaming the Actual
Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
by Israeli Women Writers
Selected, Edited, and with Introductions by
Miriyam Glazer
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Dreaming the actual : contemporary tiction and poetry by Israeli women
writers / selected, edited, and with introductions by Miriyam Glazer.
p. cm. - (SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and
culture)
ISBN 0-7914-4557-7 (he. : alk. paper). - ISBN 0-7914-4558-5 (pbk.
: alk. paper)
1. Israeli literature-Women authors-Translations into English.
I. Glazer, Miriyam, 1945- II. Series.
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"And She Is Joseph" by Nurit Zarchi. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved by
the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation copyright © by the Institute tor the Trans
lation of Hebrew Literature.
"Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek" by Nurit Zarchi. © all rights tor the original Hebrew
version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation © 1998 by Miriyam
Glazer.
"Invisible Mending" by Ruth Aimog. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved by
the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation by permission oftranslator Haya Amir.
"A Piece of Cake tix Saul" by Mira Magen. English translation copyright © by the Institute
te)r the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
"If Nella Could Do It" by Shulamith Gilboa. English translation by permission of translator
Sondra Silverston.
"The fruit of Paradise" by Leah Aini. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved by
the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation © 1998 by Miriyam Glazer.
"Rest" by Leah Aini. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o
ACUM, Israel. English translation © 1998 by Miriyam Glazer.
" 'It's Greek to You,' She Said to Him" by Savyon Liebrecht. © all rights tor the original
Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation © by the Insti
tute ti)r the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
"Hunger" by Nava Semel. English translation © Nava Semel. Used by permission of the
author.
"Schlaftstunde" by Yehudit Katzir. from Closing the Sea by Yehudit Katzir. Copyright ©
1990 by Kibbutz Hameuchad. English translation copyright © by Yehudit Katzir. Reprinted
by permission of Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich.
"Two Hours on the Road" by Shulamith Hareven. © all rights tor the original Hebrew
version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation by Hillel Halkin from
TiJ'i1i.fTht alld Other Stories © 1992 by Shulamith Hareven. (Mercury House, San Francisco,
CAl and reprinted by permission.
"Gerbera Daisies at Halt~ Price" by Mira Magen. English translation by Sondra Silverston,
and used by permission.
"Apples in Honey" by Yehudit Hendel. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved
by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation by Barbara Harshav, and used by
permission.
"Photograph" by Ronit Matalon. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved by the
author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation © 1998 by Miriyam Glazer.
"A Thousand Shekels a Story" by Ody Castel-Bloom. © all rights tor the original Hebrew
version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation copyright © by the
Institute te)r the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
"The Woman Who Went Looking tor a Walkie-Talkie" by Ody Castel-Bloom. © all rights for
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copyright © by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
"The Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox" by Ody Castel-Bloom. © all rights for
the original Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation
copyright © 1998 by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
"Monologue of a Lite Model" by Dina Rubin. English translation by Marian Schwartz, and
llsed by permission.
"Rough Casting" by Elena Makarova. English translation © 1999 by Miriyam Glazer.
"Hebrew," "I Have a Stage in My Head," "Tefillin," "When You Come Sleep with Me,"
"The Life You Have," and "Bird" by Yona Volach. © all rights for the original Hebrew
version reserved by the estate of the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translation © 1999 by
Miriyam Glazer.
"Real Love Isn't What It Seems," "An Unusual Autumn," "Hovering at a Low Altitude,"
"Blood Heifer" by Dahlia Ravikovich. © all rights for the original Hebrew version reserved
by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translations © Chana Bloch, and used by
permission.
"I x 2," "And It Is Still That Way," and "Already Night, Already Day" by Hedva Harechavi.
© all rights tix the original Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. En
glish translation © 1998 by Miriyam Glazer.
"Reading the I Ching," and "Night Hair" by Raquel Chalfi. © all rights for the original
Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translations by Karen
Alkalay-Gut, and used by permission.
"I Made a New Memory tix You," "States of War," and excerpts from "The Hymns ofJob" by
Maya Bejerano. © all rights tor the original Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o ACUM,
Israel. English translation of "Hymns of Job" © Tsipi Keller and used by permission. English
translation of "I Made a New Memory for You" and "States of War" © 1998 by Miriyam
Glazer.
"Excerpts trom the Sabbath Dream Book," "Micrographic Manuscript I and II," "The Glass,"
and "Believe Me" by Esther Ettinger. © all rights for the original Hebrew version reserved by
the author c/o ACUM, Israel. English translations © 1999 by Miriyam Glazer.
"Remembering Our Fathers," "The IndIable Name," "The Yearning of Karakashian," "Her,
Me, and Yochanan," "My English Teacher," and "Journey of a Doe" by Chava Pinchas
Cohen. © all rights for the original Hebrew version reserved by the author c/o ACUM,
Israel. English translations © 1999 by Miriyam Glazer.
"Jaffa, July 1948," "Reflections on a Dove," "In the Library," and "An Angel on the Beach"
by Hamutal Bar Yosef. Translated by Shirley Kaufman, and used by permission.
"After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice," "A Word before the Last about Loss," and poems
trom "Unopened Letters" trom Unopened Letters (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996). © 1996
Linda Zisquit, and used by permission.
"Notes: From the Wait," "Untitled," "Abu Salim, Healer," "Gaza, Undated," and "After
Eden" by Rachel Tzvia Back. © Rachel Tzvia Back, and used by permission.
"Betwem Bombardments: A Journal" by Karen Alkalay-Gut, trom Recipes: Love Soup and
Other Poems (Golan, 1994). © Karen Alkalay-Gut, and used by permission.
"Transportation" by Karen Alkalay-Gut, from Ignorant Armies (Cross-Cultural Communica
tions, 1994). © Karen Alkalay-Gut, and usC;d by permission.
"Kitzbuhl Church" and "Public Outcry" by Karen Alkalay-Gut. © Karen Alkalay-Gut, and
llsed by permission.
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