Shai Ginsburg

Book section · January 1, 2025 In a series of articles and essays, the literary critic Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972) portrayed the history of modern Hebrew literature as a history of crisis: of the breakdown of the old traditional world of religion and faith and the emergence of a new sec ... Cite

Write Down, I Am a Woman

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From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew Children’s Literature

Book section · October 1, 2020 As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical notice. ... Cite

Shai Ginsburg

Scholarly Works - Book sections

The Crisis and Tragedy of Hebrew Literary Criticism

Write Down, I Am a Woman

From Here to Elsewhere and Back in Israeli-Hebrew Children’s Literature

Jews, Theory, and Ends

Poetry and Conflict: on Civility, Citizenship and Criticism

The City and the Body: Jerusalem in Uri Tsvi Greenberg’s Vision of One of the Legions

Class and Historical Anxiety: The Rhetoric of Class in David Ben-Gurion’s and Meir Ya’ari’s Thought (in Hebrew)

S. Yizhar’s Khirbet Khizeh and the rhetoric of conflict

War and Peace in Israel: Hebrew Literature and Russian Literature in Hebrew, 1942–60

From Ziklag One Cannot See Khirbet Khizeh

Love in Search of Belief, Belief in Search of Love

Rhetoric and Criticism: The Work and Life of Paul de Man

Truth in the Land of Israel: On the Notion of Truth in the Work of Ahad Ha-‘Am

Between Myth and History: Moshe Shamir’s He Walked in the Fields