Bernard Horn’s new book, Love’s Fingerprints, has been praised by Carl Dennis, Major Jackson, and Prageeta Sharma. His first book, Our Daily Words, winner of the Old Seventy Creek Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His translations from the Hebrew of Yehuda Amichai’s poetry have appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines. Other poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Injustice Watch, the New York Times, Sixfold, Literary Matters, and the 2015 anthology, Devouring the Green: Anthology of New Writing. He is the author of Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua, the first book in English about Israel’s pre-eminent novelist. During the course of his forty-four years at Northern Essex Community College and Framingham State University, he was awarded five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Fulbright.
IN 1963, FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE NAKED AND the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer disc... more IN 1963, FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE NAKED AND the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer discussed Barbary Shore and E. M. Forster in his Paris Review interview with Steven Marcus. "Forster," said the forty-year-old Mailer, "after all, had a developed view of the world; I did not. I think I must have felt at the time as if I would never be able to write in the third person until I developed a coherent view of life. " I This of course suggests that the twenty-five-year-old author who wrote The Naked and the Dead in the third person had such a view. Mailer's remarks in another interview, twelve years earlier, imply that the literary influence that most contributed to his confidence in presenting his own "coherent view of life" in his first novel was Moby-Dick:
At the climax of the spies episode in the Book of Numbers, Yahweh questions Moses in frustration:... more At the climax of the spies episode in the Book of Numbers, Yahweh questions Moses in frustration: Yahweh spoke to Moses: Until where will this people scorn me? And until where will they not believe in me, in all the signs that I did in its midst? (14:11)(1) A few verses later, Yahweh speaks again: Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When you come to the land of the settlements that I am giving to you and you make a fire-offering to Yahweh, a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill an explicit vow or as a free-will offering or for your seasonal offerings. (15:1-3) "Yahweh spoke to Moses." "Yahweh spoke to Moses." I want to pay attention to these innocuous words which occur so frequently we tend to slide over them and pay attention only to the words that follow. I am not interested for now in the specific content of Yahweh's words but only in their general characteristics and the general readerly reaction to them. I a...
In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel\u27s greatest living novelist... more In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel\u27s greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua\u27s achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community\u27s deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, the agony of the Holocaust. A Jew who does not believe in God, he is a committed Zionist and member of the \u22peace camp\u22 in Israel that welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987. In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn\u27s conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist\u27s work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.http://digitalcommons.framingham.edu/books/1005/thumbnail.jp
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politiciz... more In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India. Sephardism asks why Gentile and Jewish writers and cultural figures have chosen to draw upon the medieval Sephardic experience to express their concerns about dissidents and minorities in modern nations? To what extent does their use of Sephardism overlap with other politicized discourses such as orientalism, hispanism, and medievalism, which also emerged from a clash between authoritarian, progressive, and romantic ideologies? This book brings a new approach to Sephardic Studies by situating it at a crossroads between Jewish Studies and Hispanic Studies in ways that enhance our appreciation of how historical fiction and political history have shaped, and were shaped by, historical attitudes toward Jews and their representation.
... To Dani, without whom all this would not have been possible, To Tali, Stevie, Ari, and Yoni, ... more ... To Dani, without whom all this would not have been possible, To Tali, Stevie, Ari, and Yoni, without whom it wouldn't have been worth ... Literary History, and the Impact of the Sephardic Experience Yael Halevi-Wise In 2001, the Spanish novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina published a ...
... Before focusing in on Hearn, however, as Melville uses Ishmael in the first wenty-five chapte... more ... Before focusing in on Hearn, however, as Melville uses Ishmael in the first wenty-five chapters of Moby-Dick to introduce the whaling world of ... Similarly, "it was the riddle of what made the General tick that kept Hearn on." Unlike Ishmael, however, it is not richness of meaning that ...
IN 1963, FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE NAKED AND the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer disc... more IN 1963, FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE NAKED AND the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer discussed Barbary Shore and E. M. Forster in his Paris Review interview with Steven Marcus. "Forster," said the forty-year-old Mailer, "after all, had a developed view of the world; I did not. I think I must have felt at the time as if I would never be able to write in the third person until I developed a coherent view of life. " I This of course suggests that the twenty-five-year-old author who wrote The Naked and the Dead in the third person had such a view. Mailer's remarks in another interview, twelve years earlier, imply that the literary influence that most contributed to his confidence in presenting his own "coherent view of life" in his first novel was Moby-Dick:
At the climax of the spies episode in the Book of Numbers, Yahweh questions Moses in frustration:... more At the climax of the spies episode in the Book of Numbers, Yahweh questions Moses in frustration: Yahweh spoke to Moses: Until where will this people scorn me? And until where will they not believe in me, in all the signs that I did in its midst? (14:11)(1) A few verses later, Yahweh speaks again: Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When you come to the land of the settlements that I am giving to you and you make a fire-offering to Yahweh, a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill an explicit vow or as a free-will offering or for your seasonal offerings. (15:1-3) "Yahweh spoke to Moses." "Yahweh spoke to Moses." I want to pay attention to these innocuous words which occur so frequently we tend to slide over them and pay attention only to the words that follow. I am not interested for now in the specific content of Yahweh's words but only in their general characteristics and the general readerly reaction to them. I a...
In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel\u27s greatest living novelist... more In Facing the Fires, Bernard Horn introduces A. B. Yehoshua, Israel\u27s greatest living novelist, to an English-speaking audience. Yehoshua\u27s achievement has been recognized throughout the world, and he has been awarded literary prizes in both Israel and the United States. A lively, controversial, and prophetic voice in his homeland, Yehoshua rigorously tests his community\u27s deepest pieties: religion, Zionism, the agony of the Holocaust. A Jew who does not believe in God, he is a committed Zionist and member of the \u22peace camp\u22 in Israel that welcomed the Palestinian uprising of 1987. In the tradition of the Paris Review interviews, Horn\u27s conversations with Yehoshua reveal the intricate play of literary, psychological, mythological, and political motifs in the novelist\u27s work. Stimulated by a warm friendship between the two scholars, the intellectual energy of Facing the Fires offers readers a pleasure they might expect only from fiction.http://digitalcommons.framingham.edu/books/1005/thumbnail.jp
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politiciz... more In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and even India. Sephardism asks why Gentile and Jewish writers and cultural figures have chosen to draw upon the medieval Sephardic experience to express their concerns about dissidents and minorities in modern nations? To what extent does their use of Sephardism overlap with other politicized discourses such as orientalism, hispanism, and medievalism, which also emerged from a clash between authoritarian, progressive, and romantic ideologies? This book brings a new approach to Sephardic Studies by situating it at a crossroads between Jewish Studies and Hispanic Studies in ways that enhance our appreciation of how historical fiction and political history have shaped, and were shaped by, historical attitudes toward Jews and their representation.
... To Dani, without whom all this would not have been possible, To Tali, Stevie, Ari, and Yoni, ... more ... To Dani, without whom all this would not have been possible, To Tali, Stevie, Ari, and Yoni, without whom it wouldn't have been worth ... Literary History, and the Impact of the Sephardic Experience Yael Halevi-Wise In 2001, the Spanish novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina published a ...
... Before focusing in on Hearn, however, as Melville uses Ishmael in the first wenty-five chapte... more ... Before focusing in on Hearn, however, as Melville uses Ishmael in the first wenty-five chapters of Moby-Dick to introduce the whaling world of ... Similarly, "it was the riddle of what made the General tick that kept Hearn on." Unlike Ishmael, however, it is not richness of meaning that ...
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