Israeli Literature
Israeli literature is literature written by Israelis.
It is primarily written in Hebrew and marks the renewal of this language as a living language.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Hebrew language has increasingly been used both to speak to write prose, poetry or plays.
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History
If Avraham Mapu is the first author in 1853 of a successful novel in Hebrew, that Eliezer Ben Yehudah we owe the revival of Hebrew as the language spoken and written for other purposes that the texts sacred and the study of Torah.
The first modern Hebrew texts were written by immigrant authors such as:
- Yosef Haim Brenner ( he: ) (1881-1921).
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he: ) (1888-1970), Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966.
The years 1940 and 1950
The years 1940 and 1950 were the generation of the Revolutionary War. Writers born in Israel were faced with a conflict between individualism and respect for society and state. Their writing can be described as "social realism".
- S. Yizhar ( he:. )
- Moshe Shamir ( he: )
- Hanoch Bartov ( he: )
- Haim Gouri ( he: )
- Benjamin Tammuz ( he: )
- Aharon Megged ( he: )
- Igal Mossinsohn ( he: , he: )
- Avigdor Hameiri ( he: )
The 1960s
In the early 1960s , writers have abandoned the ideology to write more personal: psychological realism, allegory and symbolism.
- Abraham B. Yehoshua ( he: )
- Amos Oz ( he: )
- Yoram Kaniuk ( he: )
- Yaakov Shabtai ( he: )
- Yeshayahu Koren ( he: )
The 1980 and 1990
During the years 1980 and 1990 , an intense literary activity was designed to lead readers to understand themselves.
- Aharon Appelfeld ( he: )
- David Shahar ( he: )
- David Grossman ( he: )
- Meir Shalev ( he: )
On the Holocaust
The Holocaust has been seen in new perspectives by Appelfeld and Grossman and by:
- Yehoshua Kenaz ( he: )
- Yonat Sened and Alexander ( he: )
- Nava Semel ( he: )
- Esty G. Hayim ( he: . )
New themes
New themes have emerged:
- Anton Shammas ( he: ), a writer and a Christian Arab.
- Yossl Birstein ( he: ): ultra-Orthodox world
- Haim Be `er ( he: )
- Dov Elbaum ( he: )
- Michal Govrin ( he: )
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach ( he: ): non-believer.
- Sami Michael ( he: ), Albert Suissa ( he: ), Dan Benaiah Seri ( he: - ): The role of new immigrants from Arab countries.
- Shimon Ballas ( he: ), Eli Amir ( he: ), Amnon Shamosh ( he: ), Yitzhak Gormezano-Goren
- Yitzhak Ben-Ner ( he: )
Women Writers
- Amalia Kahana-Carmon ( he: - )
- Hannah Bat-Shahar ( he: ) - Erotic
- Shulamith Hareven ( he: )
- Shulamit Lapid ( he: )
- Ruth Almog ( he: )
- Savyon Liebrecht ( he: )
- Batya Gur ( he: )
- Eleonora Lev ( he: )
- Yehudit Hendel ( he: )
- Leah Aini ( he: )
- Nurit Zarchi ( he: )
- Michael Barak , pseudonym of Michael Ben-Zohar, a pioneer of detective fiction in Hebrew.
- Amnon Dankner ( he: )
- Ram Oren ( he: )
- Amnon Jackont ( he: ' )
- Adiva Geffen ( he: )
The younger generation
- Judith Katzir ( he: )
- Etgar Keret ( he: ): mainly short story writer
- Orly Castel-Bloom ( he: ): mainly new author
- Gadi Taub ( he: )
- Irit Linoor ( he: ): suspense, humor popular author
- Mira Magen ( he: ): Experiences of an ultra-Orthodox woman
- Shimon Zimmer ( he: )
- Lily Perry ( he: )
- Yitzhak Laor ( he: )
Some postmodern writers:
- Itamar Levy ( he: ( ( )
- Yoel Hoffmann ( he: )
The late 1990s
- Dorit Rabinyan ( he: )
- Yael Hadaya ( he: )
- Alon Hilu ( he: )
- Dudu Bossi ( he: )
- Eshkol Nevo ( he: )
- Moshe Ophir
- Efrat Danon
- Alex Epstein ( he: ) (postmodern)
- Maya Arad
- Ouriel Zohar ( he: )
- Shimon Adaf ( he: ) (poetry and novels)
- Yuval Shimoni
- Avner Shavit ( he: )
Author for Youth
- Uri Orlev ( he: )
- Yehuda Atlas ( he: )
- Ephraim Sidon ( he: ): satirist
- Nira Harel ( he: )
- Tamar Bergman
- Gila Almagor ( he: ) autobiographical novel.
- Daniella Carmi
- Dorit Orgad ( he: )
- Michal Snunit ( he: )
- Alona Frankel ( he: )
- Galila Ron-Feder Amit ( he: - )
- Smadar Shir ( he: )
References
- Furstenberg, Rochelle. "The State of the Arts: Israeli Literature." Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1998. (In) [1] ,
- Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Culture-Literature, 2003. (In) [2]
- Woodpecker, Benedict. "From Jerusalem to Berlin. The Israeli literature in Germany" in "Germany Today" No. 182, October-December 2007. Paris.
- Weill, Asher. "Culture in Israel-On the Cusp of the Millennium." Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2000. (In) [3].
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