Yael S Feldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael S Feldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Feldman |
| SIGNATURE | FELDMAN Y S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Glory and Agony
Glory and Agony
Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting primal scene of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking o…
Israeli Gnosticism
Amos Oz's early story, Ish Pere' [Wild Man, 1966] is analyzed here as a modern Midrash that superimposes Jephthah's sacrificial story [Judges 11] on the analogous story of the Aqedah [Genesis 22], thereby following in the footsteps of the Christian tradition, which had early on elevated Jephthah to the status of a “hero of faith” [Hebrews 11] and later prized the daughter as a model of female martyrdom. I argue moreover that Oz was not content to…
On the Cusp of Christianity
This article suggests that the Apocryphal "rewritten" Bible known as "Pseudo-Philo" had a significant impact - heretofore unacknowledged - on Amos Oz's early story, Ish Pere [Wild Man, 1966]. I argue that four decades ago the young Oz fortuitously stumbled on a Hebrew rendition of a small fragment of "Pseudo-Philo," which had been published without any attribution. Oz was obviously unaware of the problematically marginal source of this text. Yet …
A People that Dwells Alone”
No Hebrew reader, at least no reader with some Hebraic literacy, would be able to ignore the strong national resonance of the biblical phrases that Amalia Kahana-Carmon—one of Israel's foremost writers, the recipient of the 2000 Israel Prize—inserted into the masterful opening of the title novella of her 1984 triptych, Up on Montifer. Indeed, the evocative power of these intertexts is inescapable. “ע Am levadad yishkon, ” a verbatim quote from Ba…
From The Madwoman in the Attic to The Women's Room
Israeli feminism had to be reinvented in the 1970s. About half a century had passed since the Suffragettes of Jewish Palestine won the vote in 1920; by the 1970s, intervening events--primarily the Holocaust, the establishment of the State, and its prolonged state of siege--have turned the struggle and the achievements of those "New Hebrew Women" into a dim memory. The familiar images of female soldiers and even a female Prime Minister [who was no…
Postcolonial Memory, Postmodern Intertextuality
This article challenges the interpretive consensus on Anton Shammas's 1986 Hebrew novel Arabesques. A narrow application of theoretical postcolonial constructs (e.g., making the events of 1948 the historical trauma that defines the collective memory of Shammas's narrative) misrepresents the complexity of the text as a whole. Analyzing the limitations of readings based solely on minority-discourse assumptions, the essay offers a counterreading, ba…
Approaches to Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature in Translation
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful
Modernism and Cultural Transfer
Identification-With-the-Aggressor” or the “Victim Complex ”? Holocaust and Ideology in Israeli Theater
Journal Article “IDENTIFICATION-WITH-THE-AGGRESSOR” OR THE “VICTIM COMPLEX ”? HOLOCAUST AND IDEOLOGY IN ISRAELI THEATER: GHETTO BY JOSHUA SOBOL1 Get access Yael S. Feldman Yael S. Feldman COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 1989, Pages 165–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/9.2.165 Published: 01 May 1989
Modernism and Cultural Transfer
"Feldman's "Gabriel Preil
Gender In/Difference in Contemporary Hebrew Fictional Autobiographies
This article corroborates the "culturalist" definition of gender by exploring the divergence and convergence of male/female fictional autobiographies in Hebrew literature. It argues that while preoccupation with collective identity is shared by both genders, it is precisely this constraint that prevents women from direct presentation of their imagined selves and forces them into historical displacements
Deconstructing the Biblical Sources in Israeli Theater
When in 1981 the Israeli Cameri Theater performed The Passion of Job, written and directed by Hanoch Levin, the leading avant-garde playwrightin Israel (viewed by some as “the bad boy of the modern Israeli stage”),1 public outrage reached unprecedented heights.The scandal was partially provoked by Levin′s staging.His taste for the carnal and the cruel was much too unpalatable for many stomachs to digest.“People actually walked out, while others c…
Current Interests, Work in Progress
On the Cusp of Christianity
This article suggests that the Apocryphal "rewritten" Bible known as "Pseudo-Philo" had a significant impact - heretofore unacknowledged - on Amos Oz's early story, Ish Pere [Wild Man, 1966]. I argue that four decades ago the young Oz fortuitously stumbled on a Hebrew rendition of a small fragment of "Pseudo-Philo," which had been published without any attribution. Oz was obviously unaware of the problematically marginal source of this text. Yet …
Current Interests, Work in Progress
Deconstructing the Biblical Sources in Israeli Theater
When in 1981 the Israeli Cameri Theater performed The Passion of Job, written and directed by Hanoch Levin, the leading avant-garde playwrightin Israel (viewed by some as “the bad boy of the modern Israeli stage”),1 public outrage reached unprecedented heights.The scandal was partially provoked by Levin′s staging.His taste for the carnal and the cruel was much too unpalatable for many stomachs to digest.“People actually walked out, while others c…
Modernism and Cultural Transfer
"Feldman's "Gabriel Preil
Gender In/Difference in Contemporary Hebrew Fictional Autobiographies
This article corroborates the "culturalist" definition of gender by exploring the divergence and convergence of male/female fictional autobiographies in Hebrew literature. It argues that while preoccupation with collective identity is shared by both genders, it is precisely this constraint that prevents women from direct presentation of their imagined selves and forces them into historical displacements
Identification-With-the-Aggressor” or the “Victim Complex ”? Holocaust and Ideology in Israeli Theater
Journal Article “IDENTIFICATION-WITH-THE-AGGRESSOR” OR THE “VICTIM COMPLEX ”? HOLOCAUST AND IDEOLOGY IN ISRAELI THEATER: GHETTO BY JOSHUA SOBOL1 Get access Yael S. Feldman Yael S. Feldman COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 9, Issue 2, May 1989, Pages 165–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/9.2.165 Published: 01 May 1989
Modernism and Cultural Transfer
Approaches to Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature in Translation
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful
Postcolonial Memory, Postmodern Intertextuality
This article challenges the interpretive consensus on Anton Shammas's 1986 Hebrew novel Arabesques. A narrow application of theoretical postcolonial constructs (e.g., making the events of 1948 the historical trauma that defines the collective memory of Shammas's narrative) misrepresents the complexity of the text as a whole. Analyzing the limitations of readings based solely on minority-discourse assumptions, the essay offers a counterreading, ba…
From The Madwoman in the Attic to The Women's Room
Israeli feminism had to be reinvented in the 1970s. About half a century had passed since the Suffragettes of Jewish Palestine won the vote in 1920; by the 1970s, intervening events--primarily the Holocaust, the establishment of the State, and its prolonged state of siege--have turned the struggle and the achievements of those "New Hebrew Women" into a dim memory. The familiar images of female soldiers and even a female Prime Minister [who was no…
A People that Dwells Alone”
No Hebrew reader, at least no reader with some Hebraic literacy, would be able to ignore the strong national resonance of the biblical phrases that Amalia Kahana-Carmon—one of Israel's foremost writers, the recipient of the 2000 Israel Prize—inserted into the masterful opening of the title novella of her 1984 triptych, Up on Montifer. Indeed, the evocative power of these intertexts is inescapable. “ע Am levadad yishkon, ” a verbatim quote from Ba…
On the Cusp of Christianity
This article suggests that the Apocryphal "rewritten" Bible known as "Pseudo-Philo" had a significant impact - heretofore unacknowledged - on Amos Oz's early story, Ish Pere [Wild Man, 1966]. I argue that four decades ago the young Oz fortuitously stumbled on a Hebrew rendition of a small fragment of "Pseudo-Philo," which had been published without any attribution. Oz was obviously unaware of the problematically marginal source of this text. Yet …
Israeli Gnosticism
Amos Oz's early story, Ish Pere' [Wild Man, 1966] is analyzed here as a modern Midrash that superimposes Jephthah's sacrificial story [Judges 11] on the analogous story of the Aqedah [Genesis 22], thereby following in the footsteps of the Christian tradition, which had early on elevated Jephthah to the status of a “hero of faith” [Hebrews 11] and later prized the daughter as a model of female martyrdom. I argue moreover that Oz was not content to…
Glory and Agony
Glory and Agony
Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting primal scene of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking o…
Art (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (8 works) · Theology (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Hebrew (4 works) · History (4 works)