Publications

Poets and Zealots: The Rise of the Political Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel

Bialik Institute Publishing, Jerusalem, 1994 (Heb.)

Avraham Ben-Yitzhak, one of the first Modernist Hebrew poets, published only 12 poems in his life-time, yet  his poetry is highly appreciated and influential on all generations of Hebrew poets.  From Bialik, Shlonsky, and Lea Goldberg, through Nathan Zach, to young poets writing today, all have regarded his work as one of the pinnacles of Hebrew poetry.

Readings of major works by Percy Byssge Shelley, Emily Brontë, and Heinrich von Kleist. An examination of how these authors treat the crucial questions of authority and representation in such central texts as Prometheus Unbound, Wuthering Heights, and Penthesilea. What is at stake is the relation of truth and fiction to the concepts of self, law, passion, art, and language.

Readings of Nietzsche’s notebooks to The Birth of Tragedy, Rilke’s Tenth Duino Elegy, Artaud’s Héliogabale, and Benjamin’s essay on Marcel Proust.

This book is the first literary monograph on the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg. It examines Greenberg’s poetry from his sentimental work written in the beginning of the twentieth century, through his expressionistic works written in Hebrew and Yiddish, to his groundbreaking avant-garde political poetry. Uri Zvi Greenberg established milestones on the map of Hebrew poetry, writing the most prominent work about the Holocaust as well as militant poems about the wars of the State of Israel. He created Hebrew fascist poetry as the ultimate example of Judeo-centric radical Hebrew poetry.