MLA Commons | LLC Hebrew | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Hebrew. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 493bbbeec87cf2ef283505946bbf84ac Shachar Pinsker started the topic MLA 2025 Convention CFP in the discussion LLC Hebrew https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/mla-2025-convention-cfp/ Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:24:55 -0500 Hebrew LLC Panel

Hebrew’s Invisible Ink

What spaces, images, ideas, people, and/or texts are visible in Modern Hebrew literature? What is invisible? What might be in between the visible and invisible? Please send a title and 200-word abstracts to Naomi Brenner (brenner.108@osu.edu) by March 22, 2024.

Roundtable (Joint Hebrew and Korean LL…[Read more]

]]> 0 99429c1465c2af8942f7613387c72b46 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Hebrew Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-23/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:33:35 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffd58a29a6c06bfba17bf06aba9c95cb Barbara Mann started the topic Representing the Nonhuman (CFP for joint session Hebrew and Global Jewish) in the discussion Hebrew Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/representing-the-nonhuman-cfp-for-joint-session-hebrew-and-global-jewish/ Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:51:37 -0500 Representing the Nonhuman: A panel on Jewish and/or Hebrew animal narratives, zoopoetics, nature writing, ecocriticism, and posthumanist literature and cinema.
Contact: Naama Harel, nh2508@columbia.edu
Deadline: March 15, 2017

]]> 0 95f05db9d27bc27f7f9caf5f58acdbdf Barbara Mann started the topic The Space Between in Modern Hebrew Literature (CFP for 2018) in the discussion Hebrew Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/the-space-between-in-modern-hebrew-literature-cfp-for-2018/ Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:48:51 -0500 Literary depictions of walls, borders, fences and other barriers.  Modern Hebrew literature as a discursive space of bridging or division

Contact: Phillip Hollander, phollander@wisc.edu

Deadline: March 20, 2017

]]> 0 57cd50a2937480592ad0f8ca9b55028f Barbara Mann started the topic Literature and the Economy in Modern Hebrew Literature (CFP for 2018) in the discussion Hebrew Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/literature-and-the-economy-in-modern-hebrew-literature-cfp-for-2018/ Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:44:01 -0500 Literature and the economy — circulation, economic networks, poetic currency, real estate, commodities, fetishes and Marxist critique in modern Hebrew writing.

Contact — Barbara Mann, bamann@jtsa.edu

Deadline — March 20, 2017

]]> 0 578242c874cb4f93ab78b4acacbf8b6f Phyllis Lassner replied to the topic Suggestions for Hebrew Forum Sessions for MLA 2018 in the discussion Hebrew Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/suggestions-for-hebrew-forum-sessions-for-mla-2018/#post-1013514 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:53:52 -0500 Will you consider Israeli film?

]]> 0 39dab68c21810d2253538fd05cb95dd0 Barbara Mann started the topic Suggestions for Hebrew Forum Sessions for MLA 2018 in the discussion Hebrew Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hebrew/forum/topic/suggestions-for-hebrew-forum-sessions-for-mla-2018/ Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:21:43 -0500 Please contribute any ideas you may have.  CFPs for the 2018 convention will go out at the end of February.

]]> 0 ffe7119e45e34c5fa6ce4620e816f3ba Susan Slyomovics deposited Who and what is native to Israel? On Marcel Janco's settler art and Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's “Levantinism” in the group LLC Hebrew https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549842/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 01:18:03 -0400 The poetics and esthetics of “natural occupancy” are relevant to the ways in which settlers’ colonists artistically and discursively produce their subsequent cultural formations. I focus on the decade of the 1950s to chart specific settler ideologies of ownership that emerged in
Israel after the establishment of the state in 1948. What are the v…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca2f614e1fe95f4d7d0de959e812e475 Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group LLC Hebrew https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/536814/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:45:39 -0500 This dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]

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