The New Wave in Hebrew Fiction

Gershon Shaked

1971

The inception of literature is certainly not merely a matter of ideas and ideology. Not only are the contents connected to the forms and dependent on them, but the development of the forms has its own manner of evolution as well.

The “Great Transition” was largely dependent upon the breaking of the realistic vessels that were typical of most of the…

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Creator Bio

Gershon Shaked

1929–2006
Israel’s foremost literary critic, Gershon Shaked, was born Gerhard Mandel in Vienna, to illiterate parents. As a result of the Nazi annexation of Austria, Shaked’s parents rushed to send him to Palestine, where he arrived alone at the age of ten in 1939. He was later joined by his parents. Shaked received his doctorate in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University, where he became a professor and served as head of the Hebrew Literature Department. His criticism was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1986 and the Israel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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