“silent families”, there were often intimate cues of the trauma survivor parents struggled to suppress, readily discernable by their children. Salient visceral examples of such “non-verbal transmissions” are brought up by Semel at one point in her penetrating series of conversations with Israeli...
Guo Weimin, Vice Minister of the State Council Information Office, met with an Israeli delegation headed by Tzachi Hanegbi, Minister of Regional Cooperation and Telecommunications, in Beijing on May 15. Butterfly wings to inspire new solar power technology: Australian researchers Butterfly wings could...
experience of hearing Slavic languages spoken, Czech seems to me to be the “odd man out”, and strikes me acoustically as a kind of generic “vanilla” European language. Israeli Hebrew often gives me a similar impression, and indeed this is another candidate for the mystery language John Co...
Israeli childhood; Holocaust; second generation witnessing; trauma and memory; Nava Semel; Etgar KeretIt has often been observed that a great deal, if not the preponderance, of Israeli fiction is centered on family life. Alongside David Grossman, Nava Semel and Etgar Keret are the preeminent ...