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CONTRIBUTORS
SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON. The Nobel Prize laureate for literature was born in Galicia, Poland, in 1888. He received an extensive education in hasidic and rabbinical sources, as well as in western European culture and languages, his writings enriched by his knowledge of the Talmud and the Bible. He settled in Jerusalem in 1924 and died in 1970.
LEAH AINI, born in Tel Aviv in 1952, is a writer of poetry, short stories and novels for adults, children and youth. In 1994, she won the Prime Minister's Prize for Literature. Her novel Misbebi tsriha lihiot kan ("Someone Must be Here") was recently published in German by Suhrkamp Verlag.
YEHUDA AmICHAI, born in 1924, is Israel's most widely-read and best- loved poet. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He received the Israel Prize for Literature in 1982.
AHARON APPELFELD, winner of the 1983 Israel Prize for Literature, came to Palestine after World War Two. His novels have been translated into many languages and published all over the world. He teaches literature at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba.
MULI BEN SASSON, born in Israel in 1953, is a graduate of the Department of Ceramic Design at The Bezalel Academy of Arts. He is head of the division of product design in that department and was curator of the exhibition "Continuity and Change: 90 Years of Judaica at Bezalel."
MOSHE DANN was born in the USA and came to Israel in 1982. He has a PhD in history from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is presently a tour guide and writer living in Jerusalem.
HAIM GOURI, born in Tel Aviv, has published 17 books of poetry and prose. He was awarded the Israel Prize for his poetry in 1988 on the 40th anniversary of the state, and this year, he received Jerusalem's Uri Zvi Greenberg Prize. His collected poetry has recently been published in two volumes.
ARDYN HALTER was born in Great Britain in 1956 and came to Israel in 1979. A graduate of Cambridge in English Literature, he is an artist and has exhibited extensively in France, England and Israel.
REUVEN KASHANI was born in Afghanistan in 1926 and has lived in Israel since 1935. He is a director of Misgav Yerusbalayim, an institute for research into eastern Jewish communities and is a prolific writer on the history of those communities.
ETGAR KERET was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv. He is the author of several books of short stories and he writes television comedy for Israel's Second Channel. He is the script writer for a wildly-successful Cameri Quintet comedy programme which recently won the Rose d'Or at the Montreux Festival.
SHELLY KLEIMAN was born in New York in 1958 and came to Israel in 1983. She has a degree in English literature from Harvard. She is a freelance writer and editor and writes extensively on many aspects of Israel's culture for publications in Israel and abroad.
MARLIN LEVIN, born in the USA in 1921, came to Israel in 1947, a year before the founding of the state, bringing with him some of the earliest colour film used in the country. He founded, and was for many years on the staff of the Time- Life News Service in Israel.
AYALA RAZ, born in Israel, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rotterdam. She was head of the Department of Fashion Design at Schenkar College and is now a senior lecturer there. She has worked as a designer at several of Israel's major fashion houses and she specialises in the research of 20th century fashion.
RINNA SAMUEL, writer, editor and author of several books about Israel was born in Britain and came to Israel in 1934. in the USA she was on the editorial staff of Time magazine and the New York Times. She worked on public affairs at the Weizmann Institute of Science until her retirement.
MOSHE SHAMIR was born in Safed in 1922. He is a novelist, journalist and literary critic. He served as a member of the Knesset from 1977 to 1981. He was founder and chief editor of the army weekly, Bamabaneb. In 1989 he was a recipient of the Israel Prize for Literature.
AHARON YAFFE was born in Lebanon in 1948 and came to Israel as a baby. A geographer and lecturer at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, he has published many articles in scholarly magazines in Israel and abroad. His main field of research is on Christian cults in the Middle Fast and the history of settlement in Israel in the 19-20th centuries.
A.B. YEHOSHUA, born in Jerusalem in 1936, is one of Israel's most well- known and widelytranslated authors. A prose writer, dramatist and essayist, he is also a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Haifa University. His 13 books have appeared in many languages. He received the Israel Prize for Literature in 1995.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to express our thanks to the following institutions and individuals for permission to print material in this issue: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, for the paintings by Anna Ticho, Yosef Zaritsky and Menachem Shemi (pp. 19, 20, 29). The Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, for the painting by Reuven Rubin (p.20). Ms Miriam Weissenstein and the Pri-Or Studio Tel Aviv, for the pictures by the late Rudi Weissenstein (pp. 43, 44, 45, 46, 47). The short story by Etgar Keret: "Rabin's Dead" first appeared in Moznayim, December, 1997. The article by Ayala Raz is an edited excerpt from her book: Halifot ha'itim ("Changing Styles: 100 Years of Fashion in Eretz- Israel"), published by Yediot Aharonot, 1996. The letters of S.Y.Agnon c are published by permission of Schocken Publishers, Tel Aviv. The reproductions of the sections of the Madaba Map (pp 79, 82) were taken from "The Madaba Mosaic Map," edited by Michael Avi Yonah, Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1954. The map (p.80-81) is reproduced from a drawing first published by the architects P.Palmer and Prof. Dr.H. Guthe in 1906. Ashdod sculptures courtesy of the Municipality of Ashdod (curator Baruch Wind). The exhibit, "Continuity and Change: 90 Years of judaica at Bezalel," was first shown at the Jerusalem international judaica Fair, May, 1998. The photographs by Marlin Levin (pp. 119-122) were first shown in the exhibition "in at the Birth," at the Citadel of David Museum of Jerusalem, 1997. The works by A.B.Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, Moshe Shamir, Leah Aini, Haim Gouri, and the letters of S.Y.Agnon were first published in Hebrew in KESHET Magazine, July 1998.
PHOTO CREDITS
Israel Museum: 19, 20, 29
Shai Ginott: 30, 31, 32
Rudi Weissenstein (Pri Or Studio,
Tel Aviv): 43 - 47
Nourit Padon-Melcer: 63, 64, 65, 66
Marlin Levin: 119 - 122
Oded Antman: 141-144
ART NOTES:
Anna Ticho, Ein Karem, pastel and charcoal on paper, 97 x 76 cms, Israel Museum collection, 1978. Menachem Shemi: Safed Landscape, oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cms Israel Museum collection, purchased by the fund of Batsheva de Rothschild, 1950. Reuven Rubin: Jerusalem, oil on canvas, Rubin Museum Collection, Tel Aviv, 1925. Michael Kovner, Neve Zedek, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cms, 1994. Ardyn Halter: Gamla III, oil on canvas, 45 x 81 cms, 1997-8. Ran Morin, Olive Column in the Park of Olives, near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem, 1994-7. Yosef Zaritsky: Safed, watercolour over black chalk, 63 x 61 cms, Israel Museum collection, 1924.
All Ashdod sculptures, 1998. Reuven Sherf, Line to the Horizon, Travertine marble, made of 3 pieces, 2.5 metres high. Reuven Hazak, Geometric Varieties, Travertine marble, 2.60 x 1.65 x 1.10 m. Balbir Singh Katt, Genesis of Water, Sinai granite, 2.60 x 2.50 x 1.50 metres. Yael Artsi, Waterfall, Travertine marble, 4.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 metres. Zeev Seltser, Like a Swelling Spring, marble, 3 x 3 x 1 metres. Maria Assunta Karini, 50 Years of Israel, Hebron stone, 4.5 x 1.2 x 1.5 metres. Marco Mihai, Love Birds in Spring, Travertine marble, 2 colums, each 3.5 metres high. Edouard Dulkart, Parts of the Cosmos, marble, 4 x 1 x 0.7 metres. Solomon Pinto, Symbiosis, marble, 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 metres. Dusan Kralik, Wounded Ship, marble, 5 x 0.7 x 0.5 metres. Ian Gelber-Givoli, Seal of Ashdod, Hebron stone and iron, 5 x 3.5 x 0.8 metres. Alberto Banuelos Fournier, New Moon, marble 3 x 1. 5 x 1 metres. Gershon Hayman, Bird - In Hope of Fligbt, Hebron stone, 2.6 x 2 x 2 metres. Nicolae Fleissing, Memoire de Temps, marble, 7 x I x 2.5 metres. Zeev Krisher, The House of Angels, marble, 2.5 x 2 x 1 metres. Izzika Gaon: blown-glass set for Havdalab (ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath), goblet: 10 x 19 cms, candle holder: 8 x 20 cms, scent holder 10 x 21 cms, 1997. Noga Ashkenazi : Menorah, (candelabrum) for the festival of Hanukah, 1996. Sari Yishak Srulovitch, Hanukah lamp - Menorab, 35 x 50 cms, darkened silver alloy, 1989. Israel Dahan and Benny Bronstein: case for holding the etrog (citron) for the festival of Sukkot, 20 x 20 x 40 cms, silver, silver plated and steel, 1988. Vered Tamari-Catz: mezuzot (containers for a scroll with verses from the Torah, placed within the doorpost of a Jewish home), 18 x 3 cms, copper, rubber, iron, silver, 1992. Zelig Segal: "The Crown of the Law," for placing on the top of a Torah scroll, 30 x 35 cms, silver and glass, 1996. Yaakov Greenvurcel: container for the Scroll of Esther, 9 x 27.5 cms, and rattle, 23.5 crus x 15 cms, both anodised aluminium and silver; used during the festival of Purim, 1990. |
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