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The coincidence makers
\"Tells the story of Guy, Emily, & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives ... They are responsible for organizing random encounters between lovers-to-be, creating moments of inspiration that help people make life changing decisions or 'building' coincidences that cause important scientific discoveries. But when Guy gets a new special mission, that mission, along with a mysterious killer who appears in town and other hidden forces that he is not aware of, are going to change everything\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Literary Writing in the Other’s Language in a Pluralist and Multilingual Society: In the Shade of the Jujube Tree by Jeries Tannous
Palestinian-Arab authors in Israel often write in the language of the Other, adopting the language of the Jewish majority as their creative tongue alongside their native Arabic. Despite the powerful creative presence of these authors in the local cultural landscape, they have attracted little scholarly attention. This study explores the political, sociolinguistic, and psychological aspects of Arab authors in Israel who write in Hebrew, focusing on Jeries Tannous’s 2007 novel In the Shade of the Jujube Tree.1 Based on a content analysis of the novel and a semi-structured interview with the author, this study demonstrates that the use of Hebrew by Arab authors in Israel has three purposes. The first of these is the symbolic-normative purpose: using the Other’s language to establish an alternative collective identity and bring the minority culture from the margins to the mainstream. The second is functional: in some cases, the author is more proficient in Hebrew than in his or her mother tongue. The third and final purpose is emotional: using Hebrew to express individual and collective mental distress and traumas.
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Rabid Reading: Melancholia and the Mad Dog in S. Y. Agnon's Temol shilshom
In 1945, the writer S. Y. Agnon published his magnum opus—the Hebrew novel Temol shilshom (Only Yesterday). The novel follows the life of Second Aliyah immigrant Yitshak Kumer, who eventually dies after being bitten by a rabid dog. Informed by the growing field of the medical humanities, the present article reexamines the aesthetic significance of this canine figure. I begin by tracing the medico-cultural history of rabies, its etiology and symbols, and its relationship to melancholia. I then analyze the variety of melancholic symptoms and cultural-historical signifiers that are woven into the novel. Finally, I conclude by drawing on Sigmund Freud's “Mourning and Melancholia” in order to investigate the intersection of melancholia, rabies, and style in Agnon's text. Rabies and melancholia, as will become clear, are not only conditions thematized by Temol shilshom. They are also the stylistic ciphers of the text.
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Realism, caricature and bias
Explores the psychology of prejudice and self-hate in the fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim, one of the key figures in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. The book presents an analysis of the tension between realism and caricature in Mendele's portrayal of the Russian Jews under tsarist rule.
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The \Mythological Sabra\ and Jewish Past: Trauma, Memory, and Contested Identities
Yet the novel shows that in spite of this remarkably solid Sabra appearance, the native Israeli identity is only one of the protagonist's several identities and is no more authentic than the others, nor does it offer him a better chance of healing from what appears as an acute dissociative disorder. [...]the protagonist's state at the opening of this investigation -- a body without consciousness, a man who cannot tell his own identity -- serves as a symbolic representation of his post-traumatic condition. [...]the Palestinian lover is inadvertently responsible for Arik's death when the Palestinian gunman she sends after Shemesh mistakenly kills Arik who is trying to escape from the Mossad. [...]his mechanical recording is indiscriminate with regard to the value or appropriateness of the memorized texts, and his repertoire therefore blends history with fiction, scientific study with trivial conversation, Jewish and non-Jewish texts. According to Hirsch, the second generation's \"own belated stories are displaced by the stories of the previous generation, shaped by traumatic events that they can neither understand nor recreate.\"
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