Dreaming the Actual

Miriyam Glazer is Professor of Literature and Director of the Dortort Writers Institute at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. She is the author of Burning Air and a Clear Mind: Contemporary Israeli Women Poets.

"This book significantly expands the canon of contemporary literature available to English-speaking readers through excellent translations of important writers. Glazer coherently organizes and introduces the work of, arguably, every significant Israeli woman poet and prose writer today through adept and readable translations." — Andrew Vogel Ettin, Wake Forest University"This is a book of genuine distinction. The selection of writers and poets can scarcely be improved upon, and the translations are all of high quality. There is at present nothing in print in English comparable to this book in scope and variety." — Stanley F. Chyet, Hebrew Union College

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Short Stories And She Is Joseph by Nurit ZarchiMadame Bovary in Neve Tsedek by Nurit ZarchiInvisible Meaning by Ruth AlmogA Piece of Cake for Saul by Mira MagenIf Nella Could Do It by Shulamith GilboaThe Fruit of Paradise by Leah AiniRest by Leah Anin"It's Greek to You," She Said to Him by Savyon LiebrechtHunger by Nava SemelSchlaffstunde by Yehudit KatzirTwo Hours on the Road by Shulamith HarevenGerbera Daisies at Half-Price by Mira MagenApples in Honey by Yehudit HendelPhotograph by Ronit MatalonIntroduction to Selected Short Stories by Orly Castel-BloomA Thousand Shekels a Story by Orly Castel-BloomThe Woman Who Went Looking for a Walkie-Talkie by Orly Castel-BloomThe Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox by Orly Castel-BloomA special Section: Stories Translated from the RussianMonologue of a Life Model by Dina RubinRough Casting by Elena MakarovaPart II. Poetry Yona Volach: In Memoriam HebrewI Have a Stage in My HeadTefillinWhen You Come Sleep with MeThe Life You HaveBirdDahlia Ravikovitch Real Love Isn't What It SeemsAn Unusual AutumnHovering at a Low AltitudeBlood HeiferHedva Harechavi 1 x 2And It Is Still That WayAlready Night, Already DayRaquel Chalfi Reading the I ChingNight HairMaya Bejerano I Made a New Memory for YouStates of WarFrom "Hymns of Job"Esther Ettinger Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream BookMicrographic Manuscript, Miniature (I)Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (II)The GlassBelieve MeChava Pinchas-Cohen Remebering Our FathersHer, Me, and YochananMy English TeacherThe Yearning of KarakashianThe Ineffable NameJourney of a DoeHamutal Bar Yosef Jaffa, July 1948Reflections on a DoveIn the LibraryAn Angel on the BeachAgi Mishol EstateThe Sacred Cow of HardshipGravity, DeathShoppingDevorah Amir After Fall, 1956I Have Longings for My DeadWhat Seeps InThoughts about Sari's JumpThe "Nightingale" of Uncle YairLeah Aini One Girl's DanceLiquidationIn Their HouseShowerThe Empress of Imagined FertilityNidaa Khoury Death Is Your SalvationPeople of FirePeople of PomegranatesPeople of FigsPeople of OlivesA Special Section: American Israeli Poets Writing in EnglishShirley Kaufman Deja VuStonesSecurityJob's WifeThe Mount of OlivesLinda Zisquit From "Unopened Letters"After Years of Feasting and No SacrificeA Word before the Last about LossRachel Tzvia Back Notes: From the WaitUntitlesAbu Salim, HealerGaza, UndatedAfter EdenKaren Alkalay-GutFrom "Between Bombardments: A Journal"Kitzbuhl ChurchPublic OutcryTransportation