Spring 2005
First Issue, 2005
Publish Date: March 30, 2005
Editors:
Arnold J. Band; Nissim Calderon; Yoram Meital; Yigal Schwartz
Editorial Board:
Nimrod Hurvitz, Ilana Krasman Ben-Amos, Aaron Landau, Iris Parush, Steven A. Rosen, Jimmy Weinblatt
English Translations and Editing:
Sandra Bloom, Cheryl Goldstien
Editorial Assistant:
Gitit Levy, Efrat Lieberman
Full articles
Menachem Brinker – The Stature of the Writer in Society
Professor (Emeritus) of Literature and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Henry B. Crown Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies at the University of Chicago. He received the Israel Prize for Research of Hebrew Literature for 2004. Among his recent publications (in Hebrew) are: Representation and Meaning in Fiction (1980); Aesthetics as the Theory of Criticism (1982); Narrative Art and Social Thought in Y.H. Brenner’s Work (1990); About Literature (2000)
Efrat Naveh – A Stain
Efrat Naveh received a Master of Arts in the Literary Writing Track at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva. She is a writer who has published a number of poems and short stories in several periodicals. The story in BGU Review was originally published in Israel (in Hebrew) and won a competition for the best short story sponsored by the Ha’Aretz newspaper in April, 2003.
Emmanuel Sivan – Orientalism Polemics
Emmanuel Sivan is a Professor of European and Islamic History at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of: Radical Islam (1990); Mythes polotiques arabes (1995); War and Remembrance in the 20th Century (2000), Strong Religion (2003)
Steven Rosen – Coming of Age: The Decline of Archaeology in Israeli Identity
Steven A. Rosen is Professor of Archaeology, Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near East, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of: Lithics After the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools from the Levant (1997); The ‘Oded’ Sites: Investigations at Two Early Islamic Pastoral Encampments in the South Central Negev (1997).
Dror Mishani – Lost Homeland: On the Portrait of the "Mizrahi" in Yehoshua Kenaz's Novel "Infiltration"
Dror Mishani is a research student and lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His thesis deals with “(Post)Colonial Imagination in Israeli Literature in the 1980’s.
Ronit Matalon – My Father at Seventy–Nine
writer and author of essays and articles, is Senior Lecturer of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Haifa University. She is the author of The One Facing Us (1998) and Bliss (2003)
Haim Be’er – From the Language of G-d to the Language of the Devil
Professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, is a renown Israeli writer. Some of his more recent works include: The Pure Element of Time (2003); Feathers (2004).
