ISRAEL: FINDING THE LEVANT WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN

Authors

  • Rachel S. Harris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/lev.v1i1.2158

Abstract

Reviews of:

Alexandra Nocke. The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity. Brill 2010, Cloth $70. ISBN 9789004173248

Amy Horowitz. Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. Paper $29.95. ISBN 9780814334652.

Karen Grumberg. Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 9780815632597.

Author Biography

Rachel S. Harris

Rachel S. Harris is Assistant Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture in Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published on contemporary Israeli literature in the journals Israel Studies and Modern Jewish Studies. She has written on suicide in Israeli literature, and more recently on women in Israeli film. Her co-edited volume bringing together articles on a range of interdisciplinary subjects “Narratives of Dissent: War in Israeli Culture and Arts” will be published in the Fall through Wayne State Press. She is also the series editor for the Dalkey Archive Press “Hebrew literature in Translation Series”.

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Published

2012-05-31

How to Cite

Harris, R. S. (2012). ISRAEL: FINDING THE LEVANT WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Levantine Review, 1(1), 106–117. https://doi.org/10.6017/lev.v1i1.2158

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