LEADER 04851nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910792176403321 005 20230803023758.0 010 $a1-61811-068-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618110688 035 $a(CKB)2560000000103339 035 $a(EBL)3110512 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001046748 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11577467 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001046748 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11138130 035 $a(PQKB)11229556 035 $a(DE-B1597)541132 035 $a(OCoLC)847610341 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618110688 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110512 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10716795 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL534039 035 $a(OCoLC)922977865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110512 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000103339 100 $a20130612d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWith both feet on the clouds$b[electronic resource] $efantasy in Israeli literature /$fedited by Danielle Gurevitch, Elana Gomel, Rani Graff 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aIsrael : society, culture, and history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-936235-83-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. DEFINITIONS AND DEBATE -- $tWhat is Fantasy? / $rGurevitch, Danielle -- $tWhat Is Reality? / $rGomel, Elana -- $tWhat is Unimaginable? / $rHareven, Gail -- $tII. REALISTIC FANTASY AND FANTASTIC REALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI LITERATURE -- $tMay He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery / $rGurevitch, Danielle -- $tEtgar Keret's Fantastic Reality / $rMarron, Orley K. -- $tPostmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman's To the End of the Land / $rNewman, Ruby -- $tIII. VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL: THEATER, CINEMA AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE -- $tDybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater / $rBar-Yosef, Eitan -- $tMagical Realism in Israeli Cinema / $rDuvdevani, Shmulik -- $tThe Grand High Witch of Dreams / $rManheim, Noa -- $tIV. DIASPORA DREAMS: CULTURAL ROOTS OF JEWISH/ISRAELI FANTASY -- $tThe Man from the Yellow Star / $rGomel, Elana -- $tWhy Doesn't It Rain Fish Here? / $rMelcer, Ioram -- $tKosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice / $rBlau, Sahara -- $tV. "Messiah Does Not Call Back": Fantasy in Jewish Sources and Ancient Jewish Literature -- $tTravel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler's Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story / $rAderet, Anat -- $tGhost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari / $rPeretz, Ido -- $tA Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef / $rRubinstein, Bilhah -- $tThe Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking / $rSchwartz, Dov -- $tAppendices -- $tIsraeli Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction Published From 1948 to 2011 -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aWhy do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel's origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (1902), which predicted the future Jewish state. Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, it is the first serious, wide-ranging, and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfillment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy? 410 0$aIsrael (Boston, Mass.) 606 $aFantasy fiction, Israeli$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHebrew literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFantasy in literature 615 0$aFantasy fiction, Israeli$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHebrew literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFantasy in literature. 676 $a892.40915 701 $aGurevitch$b Danielle$01122484 701 $aGomel$b Elana$01122485 701 $aGraff$b Rani$01497096 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792176403321 996 $aWith both feet on the clouds$93722134 997 $aUNINA