Michal Ben-Horin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1145999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michal Ben-Horin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michal |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Horin |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-HORIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0606-5767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Von Sprache zu Sprache
In his 1957 Hebrew language poetry collection, Ha’esh ba’even (The Fire in the Stone), Tuvia Rübner included a poem dedicated to his sister who was murdered in Auschwitz. A close reading of this poem shows its strong connection to German poems he published in various collections during the 1990s, some of which were written shortly after he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Bratislava in 1941. Such dwelling between languages comes to the fore…
The Grammar of Displacement
Since 1945, the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War has played a major role in Hebrew and German literature. This article suggests a comparative reading of prose works by Ruth Almog and Jenny Erpenbeck that deal with these memories, in light of the challenges identified by scholars of modern Hebrew and German literature. What literary devices do these writers use to respond to the catastrophe of the twentieth century? In what way do …
The Life of a Story
In a 2000 interview, Aharon Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor and prominent Israeli writer, was reminded of what he had not mentioned in his memoir. This article focuses on two of Appelfeld’s novels following the memoir, Suddenly, Love (2004) and The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping (2010), by exploring the figure of the “double” (Doppelgänger). My claim is that the literary double demonstrates Appelfeld’s attempts to work through his trauma by trans…
Gracchus’s Boat
GRACCHUS’S BOAT: EMIGRATION, TRADITION, AND TRANSLINGUALISM IN THE WORK OF TUVIA RÜBNER This article explores the relationship between German and Hebrew in the work of the poet Tuvia Rübner, who emigrated from Slovakia to Israel in 1941. Even though his first poems were written in German, his published poems were in Hebrew. Only in the 1990s did he start translating his poems and publishing in German. I claim, however, that this shift is neither …
The Sound of the Unsayable
This article examines the use of central elements of the Jewish religious repertoire and transcendental realm, such as prophecy or revelation, within the aesthetic secular realm of musical avant-garde and modern Hebrew literature. By focusing on two case studies, I attempt to shed new light on the question of Jewish secular culture. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), an Austrian Jewish composer, was born into an assimilated Viennese family and conver…
Musical Discourse and Historical Narratives in Hebrew Literature
This article explores the role of musical discourse in shaping historical narratives in the Hebrew literature of Yehoshua Kenaz and Nathan Shaham. By referring to the rich reservoir of German culture and literature, such as Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus> both Kenaz and Shaham uniquely come to terms with past events. Examples include the immigration from Europe to Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century, World War II, and the War of …
Memory Metonymies’
This article examines two novels that deal with the problem of past representation in German literature: Malina (1971) by Ingeborg Bachmann and Pawels Briefe (1999) by Monika Maron. These novels incorporate either musical or photographic images in a metonymic mode that forms an alternative poetics of memory. Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a part implicitly represents the whole, thus not constituting the ‘thing’ but rather hinting at it. …
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Musical Discourse and Historical Narratives in Hebrew Literature
This article explores the role of musical discourse in shaping historical narratives in the Hebrew literature of Yehoshua Kenaz and Nathan Shaham. By referring to the rich reservoir of German culture and literature, such as Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus> both Kenaz and Shaham uniquely come to terms with past events. Examples include the immigration from Europe to Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century, World War II, and the War of …
Memory Metonymies’
This article examines two novels that deal with the problem of past representation in German literature: Malina (1971) by Ingeborg Bachmann and Pawels Briefe (1999) by Monika Maron. These novels incorporate either musical or photographic images in a metonymic mode that forms an alternative poetics of memory. Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a part implicitly represents the whole, thus not constituting the ‘thing’ but rather hinting at it. …
The Sound of the Unsayable
This article examines the use of central elements of the Jewish religious repertoire and transcendental realm, such as prophecy or revelation, within the aesthetic secular realm of musical avant-garde and modern Hebrew literature. By focusing on two case studies, I attempt to shed new light on the question of Jewish secular culture. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), an Austrian Jewish composer, was born into an assimilated Viennese family and conver…
Gracchus’s Boat
GRACCHUS’S BOAT: EMIGRATION, TRADITION, AND TRANSLINGUALISM IN THE WORK OF TUVIA RÜBNER This article explores the relationship between German and Hebrew in the work of the poet Tuvia Rübner, who emigrated from Slovakia to Israel in 1941. Even though his first poems were written in German, his published poems were in Hebrew. Only in the 1990s did he start translating his poems and publishing in German. I claim, however, that this shift is neither …
The Grammar of Displacement
Since 1945, the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War has played a major role in Hebrew and German literature. This article suggests a comparative reading of prose works by Ruth Almog and Jenny Erpenbeck that deal with these memories, in light of the challenges identified by scholars of modern Hebrew and German literature. What literary devices do these writers use to respond to the catastrophe of the twentieth century? In what way do …
The Life of a Story
In a 2000 interview, Aharon Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor and prominent Israeli writer, was reminded of what he had not mentioned in his memoir. This article focuses on two of Appelfeld’s novels following the memoir, Suddenly, Love (2004) and The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping (2010), by exploring the figure of the “double” (Doppelgänger). My claim is that the literary double demonstrates Appelfeld’s attempts to work through his trauma by trans…
Von Sprache zu Sprache
In his 1957 Hebrew language poetry collection, Ha’esh ba’even (The Fire in the Stone), Tuvia Rübner included a poem dedicated to his sister who was murdered in Auschwitz. A close reading of this poem shows its strong connection to German poems he published in various collections during the 1990s, some of which were written shortly after he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Bratislava in 1941. Such dwelling between languages comes to the fore…
Art (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Theology (4 works) · German (3 works) · Hebrew (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (3 works) · Poetry (3 works)