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Keys to the garden : new Israeli writing / edited by Ammiel Alcalay.
- Title
- Keys to the garden : new Israeli writing / edited by Ammiel Alcalay.
- Publication
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PJ5059.E1 K48 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Alcalay, Ammiel
- Description
- xii, 369 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- One hundred stories, poems and essays by Oriental Jews on subjects ranging from race to political allegiance. One story is on a professor's wife who, unable to conceive, takes a student to bed.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interview
- interviews.
- Literature
- Interviews
- Literary collections
- Translations
- Littérature.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Translations from Hebrew and Arabic.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Simha's wondrous spell ; From Maria / Shoshannah Shababo -- From Jacob's ladder ; A letter from Mama Camouna ; From To die a modern death / Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff -- The dowry / Simha Zaramati Asta -- From Passage from Baghdad / Nissim Rejwan -- At home in exile : an interview with Shimon Ballas ; Iya / Shimon Ballas -- Signs in the great disorder : an interview with Samir Naqqash ; Prophesies of a madman in a cursed city ; From The angels' genitalia / Samir Naqqash -- From The mark of Berberia / Uziel Hazan -- From Birds of the shade / Dan Banaya-Seri -- From Moonstruck sunflowers / Avi Shmuelian -- Tel Aviv and Alexandria : an interview with Yitzhak Gormezano Goren ; From An Alexandrian summer ; From Blanche ; From Shelter in Bavli / Yitzhak Gormezano Goren -- Escaping the cauldron unscathed ; From Bound / Albert Swissa -- Little brother ; Photograph / Ronit Matalon -- Memories of an Indian upbringing / Ilana Sugbaker Messika -- The language of the world : an interview with Moshe Sartel ; Lamenting of the birds ; A stone I lay from marble of Marmara ; One day we'll be other / Moshe Sartel -- Fleeting thrill ; Wildweed ; Odalisque of the Levant ; Washerwoman under a shady tree ; Mothers whispering incantations ; From the desert to the city via home ; You have to abandon Jerusalem / Shlomo Avayou -- Families at a school for the blind in Jerusalem ; At a school for the blind in Jerusalem ; Hoarse Rababa ; Emendation of the aromas ; Summary of a conversation ; Shopping song on Dizengoff ; Moroccan wedding ; Zohra al-Fasaya's song ; On the earthquake in Agadir ; Sulika's qasida ; Something on madness ; Parable for the laying of the foundation of the house / Erez Bitton -- There was a time : an interview with Amira Hess ; From And the moon drips madness ; And as far as what I wanted ; Then slake him from ; We're children of Atlantis ; From The information eater / Amira Hess -- The history of literature. Poets ; Poem contemplating poets ; Letter to Ibn Gavirol / Lev Hakak -- I am the daughter of Lot ; The nomad in me ; Dish ; Jerusalem and San'a ; To hold the world / Bracha Serri -- Making a home for poetry : an interview with Yehezkel Kedmi ; Not equal to them the easterner ; Day blood, night blood ; Raging soul ; My people, knowledge and I ; From Sodom, Gomorrah and Jerusalem / Yehezkel Kedmi -- Writing : a dialogue with the world ; Seven stanzas to an Indian chief ; The crusader man ; With help ; Vessel of fragrance ; The house has to have an opening ; A kind of vague yearning ; Garden time ; Yes indeed I'll answer God / Shelley Elkayam -- The first law of the jungle ; Poverty line ; In answer to the question ; And her husband blurted out: Buchenwald ; Niva ; Handcuffs, stsreet poem ; Self-portrait from the marines ; The girl and the butcher's window ; Seven lines on the miraculous Yarkon ; Street of the Welders. Wedding singer ; Embroidered rag. Poem on Umm Kulthoum ; Hawadja Bialik ; This is the poem about the young woman ; Bloody Mary ; Nelson. Trafalgar Square ; History's blowouts in the valley of Yehoshephat ; Jasmine. Poem on sandpaper / Ronny Someck.
- ISBN
- 0872863085
- LCCN
- ^^^95024516^
- OCLC
- 32859679
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library