What Did the War of Independence Do to Its Writers?
Amalia Kahana-Carmon
1973
War of Independence Literature: A Painful Subject
A friend hinted to me that participating in such a discussion would be a tactical error, akin to walking into a minefield. Perhaps. I don’t believe in turning an author into someone else’s source for another reason—because writers tend to examine matters in light of the problems troubling them…
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