    A rich union of image and word, this striking book introduces English-speaking audiences to a full range of poetry by Asher Reich, one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary poets, paired with evocative drawings by renowned Israeli artist Michael Kovner. Yair Mazor, a leading scholar of Hebrew literature, provides readers with an introduction to Reich’s work and its prominent position within the panorama of modern literature in Hebrew.    Asher Reich’s poetry has been characterized as vivid, vibrant, passionate, and expressionistic. Dominated by themes of stormy sensuality and frank sexuality, his dramatic imagery and metaphors interweave Mishnaic, Talmudic, and Biblical references in a colorful, complex poetic texture. The beautiful simplicity of Kovner’s drawingsdepicting female figures and natural landscapesresonates throughout the book. Tender, stark, and striking, the drawings illustrate life’s fragility and grace with a subtlety and dignity that complements Reich’s sensitive style.    Presenting contemporary Hebrew poetry, modern Israeli art, and informed literary commentary in an engaging format, this book promises to delight a broad audience of readers.

The Poetry of Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet

Literature & Fiction

Mazor, Yair

History & Criticism

University of Wisconsin Press

A rich union of image and word, this striking book introduces English-speaking audiences to a full range of poetry by Asher Reich, one of Israel’s most celebrated contemporary poets, paired with evocative drawings by renowned Israeli artist Michael Kovner. Yair Mazor, a leading scholar of Hebrew literature, provides readers with an introduction to Reich’s work and its prominent position within the panorama of modern literature in Hebrew. Asher Reich’s poetry has been characterized as vivid, vibrant, passionate, and expressionistic. Dominated by themes of stormy sensuality and frank sexuality, his dramatic imagery and metaphors interweave Mishnaic, Talmudic, and Biblical references in a colorful, complex poetic texture. The beautiful simplicity of Kovner’s drawings?depicting female figures and natural landscapes?resonates throughout the book. Tender, stark, and striking, the drawings illustrate life’s fragility and grace with a subtlety and dignity that complements Reich’s sensitive style. Presenting contemporary Hebrew poetry, modern Israeli art, and informed literary commentary in an engaging format, this book promises to delight a broad audience of readers.

Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.

Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible’s Aesthetic Secrets

Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.

Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible's Aesthetic Secrets

Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer. In Somber Lust, Yair Mazor examines the work of the celebrated Israeli writer Amos Oz. In addition to providing a panoramic, comprehensive study of Oz’s work, including his novels, novellas, short stories, and numerous essays on literary, social, and political subjects, Mazor also meticulously documents the evolution of Oz’s aesthetic and ideological vision. The book concludes with an extensive interview with Oz himself, in which he offers insights into his own work as well as the creative process in general.

Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)

State Univ of New York Pr

State University of New York Press

David Fogel is undoubtedly the harbinger of modernism in Hebrew poetry. While other Hebrew poets wrote their poems in systematically measured rhythm, rigid rhyme, and metrical patterns, establishing and aesthetically sculpting "celebrated," symbolic themes, the poetry of David Fogel introduced a novel, innovative trend in Hebrew poetry. Accordingly, his poems are presented in a low-key rhythm of conversational Hebrew. Fogel's poetry introduced a new poetic option in Hebrew poetry, one that replaced the proclivity of "fireworks" with a serene, whispering tone. Topics are somber and subdued, the atmosphere in his poetry is bleak and murky, while quietly refraining from blatant complaint. Fogel is a poet of doom and gloom, while expressing the latter in the most moving fashion of acceptance and surrender. David Fogel tragically perished in the Holocaust in 1944. This anthology contains 75 of David Fogel's poems, translated by the author. "David Fogel's 'ars poetica' distinguishes itself with poetic beauty that had not been introduced, practiced, and displayed yet in modern Hebrew poetry. Undoubtedly, David Fogel's somber, Gothic atmosphere, subdued, melancholic tone, naturally fluent rhythm and meter, and 'mutely' practiced rhyme , topics and ideas are devoid of flowery symbolism. Prof. Yair Mazor's aesthetic probe into David Fogel's art of poetry analyzes meticulously and lucidly the David Fogel's poetic art. Hence, Prof. Mazor's study of David Fogel's poetry enables the readers to appreciate and even admire the poetry of David Fogel from the very depth of its artistic depth to its panoramic, breathtaking view point." -Professor Moshe Pelli, Director & Abe and Tess Wise Endowed Professor of Judaic Studies Interdisciplinary Program in Judaic Studies, University of Central Florida

Nocturnal Lament: The Poetry of David Fogel, Harbinger of Modern Hebrew Poetry

Mavenmark Pr

Often, when adults encounter children's literature, they tend to think about simplicity, fictional reality, naivit'e, and elementalism, as in "Elementary, Watson, elementary," Sherlock Holmes to his disciple, Dr. Watson. The very last things that cross the minds of skeptical adults are complexity, intricacy, shrewdly wrought devices, and praiseworthy sophistication. Children's literature is not elementary at all. Not Hebrew children's literature, or any kind of children's literature, in fact. What you see is not what you get. You get much, much more. The observations, literary techniques, and aesthetic artistry traced in this book through Hebrew children's literature "piously" echo any kind of children's literature in any language. The major critical proclivity both exhibited and probed in this book is the way anticipated simplicity is eclipsed by well-sculpted complexity. The text of children's literature consists of two layers: the upper, surface layer and the cryptic, underlying layer. Under the upper "epidermic" layer of the text, one that radiates simplicity and elementalism, there is a hidden, concealed, cryptic layer that contests the upper layer. It proves that the very essence of the text is desirably intricate and that the upper layer is indeed an artistic channel that unearths the "real" text that consists of the literary mechanism to delivery the text's message (educational, moral, ethical, etc.) in concealed sophistication.

In the Land of Childhood: Hebrew Children's Literature

Teen & Young Adult

Henschel Haus Pub

Yehuda Amichai (born in Germany on May 3, 1924, and died in Jerusalem on September 22, 2000) was undoubtedly the most prominent and equally paramount Israeli poet during the last half century. His major poetic innovation was to part from lofty poetry and replace it with poetry that consists of simplicity when it comes to vocabulary, syntax, meter and rhyme, and rhythm. Simplicity is the name of his poetic game. Yet that simplicity does not eclipse nor cloud the inner sophistication which his poetry cultivates and displays.\nDr. Yair Mazor is a professor-emeritus of modern Hebrew and Biblical literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. To date, Professor-emeritus Mazor has authored 29 scholarly books and more than 250 articles and critical essays that have been published in USA, Israel, and numerous European countries. Dr Mazor is a popular guest lecturer and has spoken to audiences throughout Europe and many other venues around the world.\nAmong the many scholarly awards Dr. Mazor has received are the Sadan Prize and the Shpan Prize for two of his books, the Baron Prize for Excellency in the field of Jewish Studies, the distinguished teaching award by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Friedman Prize, a national award for the most distinguished Hebrew literature scholar in the United States. In his military service, Dr. Mazor acted as a fighting paratrooper, as well as an instructor of parachuting.

The Sound of Whisper: When Yehuda Amichai Wrote Hebrew Poetry, and Later

Biographies & Memoirs

HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.

Yair Mazor offers an illuminating history of Jewish poetry from Biblical times to the twentieth century. He provides biographies of nine poets—David Fogel, Rachel, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Dalia Rabikovitz, Dan Pagis, Yair Horwitz, Yona Wollach, and Ronny Someck—and generous selections of their work in translation. The book includes illustrations by Nachum Gutman.Distributed for the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Pain, Pining, and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry

Papyrus Publishing House

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The Poetry of Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet

The Poetry of Asher Reich: Portrait of a Hebrew Poet

Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible’s Aesthetic Secrets

Who Wrought the Bible?: Unveiling the Bible's Aesthetic Secrets

Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)

Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

Nocturnal Lament: The Poetry of David Fogel, Harbinger of Modern Hebrew Poetry

In the Land of Childhood: Hebrew Children's Literature

The Sound of Whisper: When Yehuda Amichai Wrote Hebrew Poetry, and Later

Pain, Pining, and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry