Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War ― Essays on Philology and Responsibility

Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility is the first book that deals with the issue of the Nakba from a point of view which shows how rare it is that Hebrew Literature takes responsibility for the Palestinian Nakba.

Hannan Heveris Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University. He teaches in the Comparative Literature Department at Yale and is affiliated with the Program of Judaic Studies. He has published extensively on Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture and Theory of Literature and Culture from political, post-national and post-colonial perspectives. Among his most recent books are Nativism, Zionism and Beyond: three Essays on Nativist Hebrew Poetry (2014), To Inherent the Land, To Conquer the Space: The Birth of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael (2015), and Suddenly the Sight of War: Nationalism and Violence in the Hebrew Poetry of the 1940s (2016), His most recent book is We are Broken Rhymes, The Politics of Trauma in Israeli Literature (2017).