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title	:	We Are All Close : Conversations With Israeli Writers
author	:	Chertok, Haim.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0823212238
print isbn13	:	9780823212231
ebook isbn13	:	9780585125435
language	:	English
subject	Israel--Social conditions, Authors, Israeli--Interviews, Israel--Intellectual life.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	HN660.A8C48 1989eb
ddc	:	956.94/054
subject	:	Israel--Social conditions, Authors, Israeli--Interviews, Israel--Intellectual life.

Page iii We Are All Close A learned man who partook of the Sabbath meal at the home of Rabbi Baruch ben Jehiel (1757-1810) of Medzibezh (Poland, until 1793; thereafter Russia), grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, said to his host: "Let me now hear you talk of your doctrine; you speak so beautifully." "May I be struck dumb ere I speak beautifully!" was Rabbi Baruch's reply; and he said nothing more. The conversation of authors is not so good as might be imagined; but, such as it is (and with rare exceptions), it is better than any other.William Hazlitt

Page v We Are All Close Conversations with Israeli Writers Haim Chertok Fordham University Press / New York

Page vi FOR MARCIA Copyright 1989 by Fordham University All rights reserved. LC 89-80058 ISBN 0-8232-1223-8 Designed by Richard Hendel. Printed in the United States of America

Page vii Contents Not to the Left, Not to the Right Aharon Appelfeld 11 To Heal the Breach T. Carmi 25 Dismantler A. B. Yehoshua 37 Neither Prophet nor Guru Yehuda Amichai 49 Some Sort of Abel Dan Pagis 63 Miracle Hater Shulamith Hareven 75 Eighty-Four and Not at Peace Aryeh Liphshitz 93 World's Number Two Canaanite Benjamin Tammuz 105 Lover of Jerusalem Asenath Petrie 119 Searching for Water Rivka Miriam 131

Page viii Off the Reservation Amos Oz 149 Poetry Gloomier than the Man Natan Zach 165 Secular Pilgrim Yitzhak Orpaz 183 Edited by God Elazar (Larry) Freifeld 195 A-Zionist Yehoshua Kenaz 209 Best Boy in the Class Haim Be'er 223 Sabra or Jew? Yitzhak Ben-Mordechai 237 Not Undelighted Yael Medini 251

Page 1 Introduction This representative sampling of conversations with Israeli writers stretches from November 1983, when I met with novelist Aharon Appelfeld at the Car Atara in Jerusalem, to March 1988, when I spoke with short-story writer Yael Medini at her home in Ramat Gana span of nearly five years. The notion that English-speaking readers might be interested in eavesdropping on the table talk of Israeli writers was initially suggested by Mitchell Cohen, at the time editor of the Jewish Frontier, the Labor Zionist hi-monthly in New York. In fact, in a variety of forms, fully half of these verbal encounters first made their appearance in the pages of the Frontier. Choosing which writers to approach turned out to be very largely a matter of chance. In 1982 the English-language daily The Jerusalem Post printed my appreciative notice of Appelfeld's novel The Age of Wonders. With it as my calling card, I painlessly arranged a meeting with the author a year-and-a-half thereafter. In fact, most of the ensuing meetings were to be with writers whose books it fell my lot to review either in the Post or in the Jerusalem-based cultural quarterly Ariel. It might be well for the reader to bear in mind several factors that doubtless affected the tone of these encounters. First, with just a single exception, I did not talk with any writer whose work I do not genuinely admire. Moreover, with those writers considerably older than I, I find that I tended rather naturally to assume a deferential stance. Consequently, though on occasion I did deliberately choose to be provocative, both the selective procedure itself and the given situation served to blunt any inclination toward visceral confrontation.

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