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WINDOWS TO ISRAEL
THROUGH LITERATURE
Windows to Israel through literature is an overarching title for a multitude of activities. They all offer an in-depth reading of the best of Israel’s poets and writers as a key to the many faces of its life and culture: Even if you never liked poetry, this is an experience you may wish to try.
You will meet here the older classics from H. N. Bialik and Nathan Alterman all the way to the most recently published young “Spoken Word” voices. You will explore the main stream voices and the edges. Women & Men, Arabs and Jews speaking from all along the ideological spectrum.
SEMESTER'S SCHEDULE
Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
SEMESTER'S SCHEDULE
Shiru Shir
You know the Hebrew language does not distinguish between a song and a poem. They are both shir. Indeed many of our poems were set to music and we enjoy singing them in joyous get-togethers as well as painful memorial ceremonies. We sing about friendship, about places we love to visit and even about biblical heroes and events.
Israeli Society
Many of our poetry sessions are topical rather than focusing on a given poet. In this section you will find many that offer a look at issues in the complex life of Israel through the poetic lens: From “War and Peace” to “Women Voice” through sessions dedicated to the “Mizrachi Voice” and to “The Image of the other”. They are all gathered into a single category.
Book Clubs
This is the place for prose; Israeli novels written by the best of our writers. We have discussed each in a series of sessions. Three to ten sessions for one book. Look up the series that interest you by names of authors: Emunah Elon, Meir Shalev, Amos Oz, Davis Grossman, Batya Gur, Savyon Liebrecht, Eli Amir and coming soon S.Y. Agnon.
Pnei Shabbat
All our Thursday sessions of the 2022-2023 Winter semester we will focus on Shabbat in modern Israeli poetry. Our main source book is the new Shabbat poetry Anthology פני שבת by Meshiv Haruach publishing house.
Each week we will dedicate a portion of the class to the particular weekly Parsha looking for innovative poetic readings of the ancient texts.
Shiru Shir
You know the Hebrew language does not distinguish between a song and a poem. They are both shir. Indeed many of our poems were set to music and we enjoy singing them in joyous get-togethers as well as painful memorial ceremonies. We sing about friendship, about places we love to visit and even about biblical heroes and events.
Israeli Society
Many of our poetry sessions are topical rather than focusing on a given poet. In this section you will find many that offer a look at issues in the complex life of Israel through the poetic lens: From “War and Peace” to “Women Voice” through sessions dedicated to the “Mizrachi Voice” and to “The Image of the other”. They are all gathered into a single category.
Book Clubs
This is the place for prose; Israeli novels written by the best of our writers. We have discussed each in a series of sessions. Three to ten sessions for one book. Look up the series that interest you by names of authors: Emunah Elon, Meir Shalev, Amos Oz, Davis Grossman, Batya Gur, Savyon Liebrecht, Eli Amir and coming soon S.Y. Agnon.
Pnei Shabbat
All our Thursday sessions of the 2022-2023 Winter semester we will focus on Shabbat in modern Israeli poetry. Our main source book is the new Shabbat poetry Anthology פני שבת by Meshiv Haruach publishing house. Each week we will dedicate a portion of the class to the particular weekly Parsha looking for innovative poetic readings of the ancient texts.
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