1st Edition

Amos Oz’s Two Pens Between Literature and Politics

Edited By Arie M. Dubnov Copyright 2023
215 Pages
by Routledge

215 Pages
by Routledge

215 Pages
by Routledge

The Hebrew novelist and political essayist, Amoz Oz (1939-2018), arguably Israel’s leading intellectual, was fond of describing himself as using two different pens - the first used to write works of prose and fiction, and the other to criticize the government and advocate for a political change. This volume revisits the two pens parable. It brings together scholars from various disciplines who... Read more

Introduction: Amos Oz’s two pens
Arie M. Dubnov

1. Amos Oz and the politics of identity: A reassessment
Eran Kaplan

2. The greatness of smallness: Amos Oz, Sherwood Anderson, and the American presence in Hebrew Literature.
Karen Grumberg

3. The American Oz: Notes on translation and reception
Omri Asscher

4. Amos Oz: A humanist in the darkness
David Ohana

5. "Now we shall reveal a little secret" first person plural and lyrical fluidity in the works of Amos Oz
Vered Karti Shemtov

6. "Like a cow that gave birth to a seagull": Amos Oz, Yoel Hoffmann and the birth of The Same Sea
Neta Stahl

7. Memory and space in the autobiographical writings of Amos Oz and Ronit Matalon
Adia Mendelson-Maoz

8. Amos Oz: The lighthouse
Yigal Schwartz

9. Love, compassion, and longing
Nurith Gertz

Afterword
Reading Amos Oz Today
Lilah Nethanel

Biography

Arie M. Dubnov is Associate Professor of History and the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at the George Washington University, USA. His publications include the intellectual biography Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012), and two edited volumes, Zionism - A View from the Outside (2010 [in Hebrew]) and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-century Territorial Separatism (2019, co-edited with Laura Robson).