The Toby Press: Gershon Shaked

Gershon Shaked
*Modern Hebrew Fiction* 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 from the founding of the State through the 1990s. The product of more than twenty years of research, it is unique in its scope, profiling four generations of Hebrew writers... Publication date: May 2008 More Info...
8 Great Hebrew Short Novels selected and edited by Alan Lelchuk and Gershon Shaked This is an outstanding anthology comprising complete novellas by some of the finest Hebrew writers of the past century. S.Y.Agnon, Yosef Brenner, Uri Gnessin, Yitzhak Shami, David Fogel, Amos Oz, Yehoshua Kenaz and A.B. Yehoshua are all represented in newly revised translations. Selected and edited by Alan Lelchuk and Gershon Shaked, with an outstanding introduction by Alan Lelchuk, this is an indispensable volume for students of modern Hebrew literature. Publication date: March 2005 More Info...