Rachel S Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 6090113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel S Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel S |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Jewish Identities Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture The Program in Jewish Culture and Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Casting a Giant Shadow
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
On February 4, 2021 Rachel Feldhay Brenner died after a short and private battle with cancer. The pandemic had masked her seclusion, and thus few knew of her physical decline. Until only a few days
Palestinian Counter-Hero
“Fadi must be buried as a martyr,” they said, “his death is a loss for the cause!”My father threw them out. “To hell with you and your whoring cause!” he yelled at them. “My son didn't die a martyr. He didn't die fighting. He was caught in the crossfire between bastards like you!”1
Identity, place, and subversion in contemporary Mizrahi cinema in Israel
Identity, place, and subversion in contemporary Mizrahi cinema in Israel." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 15(3), pp. 529–530
Parallel Lives
Free Zone (Amos Gitai, 2005); The Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis, 2008) and Syrian Bride (Eran Riklis, 2004), explore the Arab-Israeli conflict through women’s experience of the political and military stalemate. In presenting Palestinian, Druze, and Israeli women, these filmmakers attempt to contrast and compare women’s shared encounters, including their experience of patriarchy. While the characters may come from diametrically opposed sides, their expe…
Perfect Heroes
Reviewed by: Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory Rachel S. Harris (bio) Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz. Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2010. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0299234843, $29.95. The four line song “Eli Eli” is known by every person educated within the Israeli school system or who has participated in a Jewish y…
Forgetting the Forgotten Ones
Haim Gouri’s poem “Hanishkahim” (The Forgotten Ones) has appeared in several versions and in a number of collections. Suggesting the noble heroism of soldiers dying in battle, this poem has become an example of the symbolic repertoire employed to enforce national myths. As part of the “Palmah generation” of poets, Gouri’s own life, as well as the imagery of the poetry, articulates the ideals of the sabras who fought and died in the Israeli War of…
Decay and Death
The city's motto "I will build you and you will be rebuilt," from Jeremiah (31:4) is confronted and even challenged in literary depictions of Tel-Aviv. The mythology prevalent in the city's creation narrative is shattered through the use of urban tropes, such as the street, prostitution, urban sprawl, and the protagonist's isolation, and even eventual suicide, in fictional texts from the 1970s onwards. This article examines texts by Ya'akov Shabt…
New England Words for the Earthworm
worm, there be very many names. This statement is true, at least, in the case of the earthworm which is so commonly used as bait in fishing. In New England the earthworm is referred to by the undiscriminating as the worm, by the fisherman as bait, and by the average New Englander as one of half a dozen dialectal terms: angleworm, angledog, easworm, fishworm, mudworm, or rainworm. These humble and homely terms by their geographic distribution refl…
Parallel Lives
Free Zone (Amos Gitai, 2005); The Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis, 2008) and Syrian Bride (Eran Riklis, 2004), explore the Arab-Israeli conflict through women’s experience of the political and military stalemate. In presenting Palestinian, Druze, and Israeli women, these filmmakers attempt to contrast and compare women’s shared encounters, including their experience of patriarchy. While the characters may come from diametrically opposed sides, their expe…
New England Words for the Earthworm
worm, there be very many names. This statement is true, at least, in the case of the earthworm which is so commonly used as bait in fishing. In New England the earthworm is referred to by the undiscriminating as the worm, by the fisherman as bait, and by the average New Englander as one of half a dozen dialectal terms: angleworm, angledog, easworm, fishworm, mudworm, or rainworm. These humble and homely terms by their geographic distribution refl…
Forgetting the Forgotten Ones
Haim Gouri’s poem “Hanishkahim” (The Forgotten Ones) has appeared in several versions and in a number of collections. Suggesting the noble heroism of soldiers dying in battle, this poem has become an example of the symbolic repertoire employed to enforce national myths. As part of the “Palmah generation” of poets, Gouri’s own life, as well as the imagery of the poetry, articulates the ideals of the sabras who fought and died in the Israeli War of…
Decay and Death
The city's motto "I will build you and you will be rebuilt," from Jeremiah (31:4) is confronted and even challenged in literary depictions of Tel-Aviv. The mythology prevalent in the city's creation narrative is shattered through the use of urban tropes, such as the street, prostitution, urban sprawl, and the protagonist's isolation, and even eventual suicide, in fictional texts from the 1970s onwards. This article examines texts by Ya'akov Shabt…
Perfect Heroes
Reviewed by: Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory Rachel S. Harris (bio) Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz. Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2010. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0299234843, $29.95. The four line song “Eli Eli” is known by every person educated within the Israeli school system or who has participated in a Jewish y…
Parallel Lives
Free Zone (Amos Gitai, 2005); The Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis, 2008) and Syrian Bride (Eran Riklis, 2004), explore the Arab-Israeli conflict through women’s experience of the political and military stalemate. In presenting Palestinian, Druze, and Israeli women, these filmmakers attempt to contrast and compare women’s shared encounters, including their experience of patriarchy. While the characters may come from diametrically opposed sides, their expe…
Identity, place, and subversion in contemporary Mizrahi cinema in Israel
Identity, place, and subversion in contemporary Mizrahi cinema in Israel." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 15(3), pp. 529–530
Palestinian Counter-Hero
“Fadi must be buried as a martyr,” they said, “his death is a loss for the cause!”My father threw them out. “To hell with you and your whoring cause!” he yelled at them. “My son didn't die a martyr. He didn't die fighting. He was caught in the crossfire between bastards like you!”1
Casting a Giant Shadow
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
On February 4, 2021 Rachel Feldhay Brenner died after a short and private battle with cancer. The pandemic had masked her seclusion, and thus few knew of her physical decline. Until only a few days
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