Yael Halevi‐Wise
Biographic Data
| ID | 6488241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael Halevi‐Wise |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael |
| FAMILY NAME | Halevi‐Wise |
| SIGNATURE | WISE Y H |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hebrew Literature in the ‘World Republic of Letters’
This article charts the international reception of modern Hebrew literature over the last hundred years. It brings large-scale data on the translation of Hebrew literature into conversation with current studies on the dissemination of ‘small’ languages around the world. We pay special attention to publishing trends, genres, literary awards, and other indicators of international recognition. More broadly, we question the scope and definition of a …
Agnon's Conversation with Jeremiah in A Guest for the Night
Approaching A Guest for the Night from the point of view of the Book of Jeremiah––from which this novel draws its title––leads us to revisit two central components of Agnon's theology and stylized identity. First, his majestic evocation of a deity (Jeremiah's “guest”) who abandoned his “wife” (the people of Israel); and concomitantly, Agnon's lifelong preoccupation with the “ ‘agunah problem” as a metaphor for national rupture, in ways that for A…
Reading Agnon's In the Prime of Her Life in Light of Freud's Dora
IN MODERN HEBREW FICTION, Agnon's influential novella In the Prime of Her Life establishes a plot pattern that has been so prevalent among Hebrew novels that it can be regarded as a distinctive national paradigm. This paradigm links two dysfunctional generations through the figure of a shared lover, who is carried over from one generation to the next as a troublesome inheritance. I believe that this structure has been particularly attractive to H…
Ethics and aesthetics of memory in contemporary Mizrahi literature
Invenciones Multitudinarias
Puente entre naciones
Agnon's Conversation with Jeremiah in A Guest for the Night
Approaching A Guest for the Night from the point of view of the Book of Jeremiah––from which this novel draws its title––leads us to revisit two central components of Agnon's theology and stylized identity. First, his majestic evocation of a deity (Jeremiah's “guest”) who abandoned his “wife” (the people of Israel); and concomitantly, Agnon's lifelong preoccupation with the “ ‘agunah problem” as a metaphor for national rupture, in ways that for A…
Ethics and aesthetics of memory in contemporary Mizrahi literature
Puente entre naciones
Puente entre naciones
Ethics and aesthetics of memory in contemporary Mizrahi literature
Invenciones Multitudinarias
Reading Agnon's In the Prime of Her Life in Light of Freud's Dora
IN MODERN HEBREW FICTION, Agnon's influential novella In the Prime of Her Life establishes a plot pattern that has been so prevalent among Hebrew novels that it can be regarded as a distinctive national paradigm. This paradigm links two dysfunctional generations through the figure of a shared lover, who is carried over from one generation to the next as a troublesome inheritance. I believe that this structure has been particularly attractive to H…
Agnon's Conversation with Jeremiah in A Guest for the Night
Approaching A Guest for the Night from the point of view of the Book of Jeremiah––from which this novel draws its title––leads us to revisit two central components of Agnon's theology and stylized identity. First, his majestic evocation of a deity (Jeremiah's “guest”) who abandoned his “wife” (the people of Israel); and concomitantly, Agnon's lifelong preoccupation with the “ ‘agunah problem” as a metaphor for national rupture, in ways that for A…
Hebrew Literature in the ‘World Republic of Letters’
This article charts the international reception of modern Hebrew literature over the last hundred years. It brings large-scale data on the translation of Hebrew literature into conversation with current studies on the dissemination of ‘small’ languages around the world. We pay special attention to publishing trends, genres, literary awards, and other indicators of international recognition. More broadly, we question the scope and definition of a …
Art (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)