With both feet on the clouds : fantasy in Israeli literature / edited by Danielle Gurevitch, Elana Gomel, Rani Graff. - Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2013 - 1 online resource (309 pages) - Israel, society, culture, and history . - Israel (Boston, Mass.) .

Originally published in Hebrew in 2009 by Graf Press and the Heksherim Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev under title: ʻIm shete ha-raglayim ʻamoḳ ba-ʻananim : fantasy in Hebrew literature, a selection of essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""What is Fantasy?""; ""What Is Reality?""; ""What is Unimaginable?""; ""May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery""; ""Etgar Keret�s Fantastic Reality""; ""Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman�s To the End of the Land""; ""Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater""; ""Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema""; ""The Grand High Witch of Dreams""; ""The Man from the Yellow Star""; ""Why Doesn�t It Rain Fish Here?"" ""Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice""""Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler�s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story""; ""Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari1""; ""A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef""; ""The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking""

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Hebrew literature--History and criticism.
Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Fantasy in literature.
Mysticism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--African.
Fantasy in literature
Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature, Modern
Mysticism in literature


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