Summer 2008
Second Issue, 2008
Publsih Date: Septmeber 2, 2008
Editors:
Shira Stav and Maayan Harel
Editorial Board:
Amir Banbaji, Dafna Hirsch, Aaron Landau, Relli Shechter
Translation Editor:
Judith H. Seeligmann
Full articles
Dahlia Ravikovich – Many Waters
Dahlia Ravikovich (1936-2005) is one of the most eminent and central modern Israeli poets. She published ten books of poetry (among which: The Love of an Orange [Ahavat Tapuah Ha-Zahav] 1959; The Third Book [Ha-Sefer Ha-Shlishi] 1969; True Love [Ahavah Amitit] 1987); three collections of short stories and five children´s books. She has also translated poetry and books for children into Hebrew. Ravikovich´s unique poetics demand an erasing of the apparent distinction between the personal-internal and the public-political pain and injustice. She was awarded the Bialik Prize (1987), the Israel Prize (1998) and the Prime Minister´s Prize (2005). Her poetry has been published abroad in 23 languages.
Zvi Elhyani – Fallout
Zvi Elhyani is an Israeli architect and historian of architecture, presently writing a doctoral dissertation on the historiography of Israeli architecture. Elhyani teaches at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and at the Haifa Technion. He is the co-editor of The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948-1973 (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2004) and the author of the forthcoming Niemeyer in Israel (Babel 2008). Elhyani is a founding member of the Forum for Preservation of Audio-Visual Memory in Israel. He has published dozens of articles on architecture in Israel and abroad.
Aharon Shabtai – Notes on Poetry and Politics
Aharon Shabtai is an acclaimed Israeli poet as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew. Shabtai has published 20 books of poetry (Among which: Kibbutz 1973; Love [Ahavah] 1988; Ziva 1990). Translations of his poetry have appeared in English and French. He was awarded the 1971 Prime Minister's Prize for Poetry, the 1993 Prime Minister´s Prize for Translation and the 1999 Tchernikhovsky Prize for Translation. He teaches Greek literature at Tel-Aviv University.
Yonit Naaman – Everyone knows Yemenites are great in bed
Yonit Naaman has a B.A in Poetics and Comparative Literature from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.A in Jewish-Christian Relations from the University of Cambridge. She is Mizrachit, a feminist and is interested in the aspects of post-colonical and gender issues in Literature.
Boaz Huss – The Mystification of the Kabbalah and the Modern Construction of Jewish Mysticism
Boaz Huss teaches Kabbalah at the Goren-Goldstein Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is an expert on of various areas of Kabbalah, the Zohar and contemporary Kabbalah. His recent publications include: Like the radiance of the Sky: Chapters in the Reception History of the Zohar and the Construction of its Symbolic Value, Ben Zvi: Jerusalem, 2008; `"All you Need is LAV": Madonna and Postmodern Kabbalah`, The Jewish Quarterly Review 95, 2005; `The New Age of Kabbalah: Contemporary Kabbalah, The New Age and Postmodern Spirituality` Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 6, 2007. He is currently engaged in a research project "Major Trends in 20th Kabbalah", funded by the Israeli Science Foundation.
bhuss@bgu.ac.il
Ayana Erdal – On Love's Misunderstandings
Ayana Erdal is an Israeli poet. She was awarded the 2005 Israeli President´s prize for poetry. Erdal is the Author of My Blood Sandals (Keter Books 2002). Her second book is soon to be published by the Am-Oved Publishing House.
ayanae@walla.com
Gish Amit – The Jewish National and University Library has gathered tens of thousands of abandoned books during the war. We thank the people of the army for the love and understanding they have shown towards this undertaking
Gish Amit is a PhD student and a lecturer in the Hebrew Literature Department at Ben-Gurion University.
gishamit@gmail.com
Anat Zanger – Rural Sunset: Periphery and Nostalgia in the Landscapes of Contemporary Israeli Cinema
Anat Zanger is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Film & Television at Tel Aviv University. Among her subjects of interests: Gender, Mythology, Collective memory, war and women, inter-textuality Space and Landscape. Her book Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguises has been published recently by the Amsterdam University Press. She is currently completing a book on space and film.
zanger@post.tau.ac.il
