Modern Hebrew Fiction (Jewish Literature and Culture)

Gershon Shaked's history of modern Hebrew fiction traces the emergence and development of a literature "against all odds"—from its European roots in the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to the flowering of a literary culture on Israeli soil through the 1990s. The product of more than 20 years of research, it is unique in its scope, profiling four generations of Hebrew writers.