Ilana Szobel is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and core faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.

"In Ilana Szobel's multidimensional, urgent, and sensitive study, Flesh of My Flesh, the representation of sexual violence and trauma in modern Hebrew literature is insidious and political … Flesh of My Flesh makes an exciting and important contribution to Hebrew literary studies. Its dynamic theoretical landscape—charted by paradigms and concepts from feminism of color, psychoanalytic theory, disability studies, and many more—invites Hebrew literature into a conversation with other literatures, other national and language traditions." — Hebrew Higher Education"Szobel's research brings to light valuable insights into the past, present, and future of gender, nationalism, erasure, silence, representation, and their impact on sexual violence. It's urgent in its truth-telling, and essential in its revealed realities." — Lilith"Well written, original, impressively researched, and replete with newly examined materials, this is a very interesting and, at times, spellbinding study. Szobel is an excellent close reader of texts, who is also extremely well versed in current theoretical and critical writings." — Nili Gold, University of Pennsylvania

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "A Great, Oppressive, Suffocating Blasphemy": Sexualized Violence as an Insidious Trauma1. "Lights in the Darkness": Prostitution, Power, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature2. Sepharadi Jewry in Pre-State Israel: Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Violence in the Work of Shoshana Shababo3. "Do Not Bandage the Wounded": Wounded Soldiers and Nonconsensual Relations in Israeli War Literature4. "Subduing the Terrible Sound of Silence": Memoirs of Incest Survivors5. "The Girl with the Billy-Goat's Hoof ": Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis, and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia LitevskyConclusion: "Silence Cries Out"NotesBibliographyIndex

Ilana Szobel is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and core faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.

"In Ilana Szobel's multidimensional, urgent, and sensitive study, Flesh of My Flesh, the representation of sexual violence and trauma in modern Hebrew literature is insidious and political … Flesh of My Flesh makes an exciting and important contribution to Hebrew literary studies. Its dynamic theoretical landscape—charted by paradigms and concepts from feminism of color, psychoanalytic theory, disability studies, and many more—invites Hebrew literature into a conversation with other literatures, other national and language traditions." — Hebrew Higher Education"Szobel's research brings to light valuable insights into the past, present, and future of gender, nationalism, erasure, silence, representation, and their impact on sexual violence. It's urgent in its truth-telling, and essential in its revealed realities." — Lilith"Well written, original, impressively researched, and replete with newly examined materials, this is a very interesting and, at times, spellbinding study. Szobel is an excellent close reader of texts, who is also extremely well versed in current theoretical and critical writings." — Nili Gold, University of Pennsylvania

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "A Great, Oppressive, Suffocating Blasphemy": Sexualized Violence as an Insidious Trauma1. "Lights in the Darkness": Prostitution, Power, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature2. Sepharadi Jewry in Pre-State Israel: Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Violence in the Work of Shoshana Shababo3. "Do Not Bandage the Wounded": Wounded Soldiers and Nonconsensual Relations in Israeli War Literature4. "Subduing the Terrible Sound of Silence": Memoirs of Incest Survivors5. "The Girl with the Billy-Goat's Hoof ": Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis, and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia LitevskyConclusion: "Silence Cries Out"NotesBibliographyIndex

Ilana Szobel is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and core faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.

"In Ilana Szobel's multidimensional, urgent, and sensitive study, Flesh of My Flesh, the representation of sexual violence and trauma in modern Hebrew literature is insidious and political … Flesh of My Flesh makes an exciting and important contribution to Hebrew literary studies. Its dynamic theoretical landscape—charted by paradigms and concepts from feminism of color, psychoanalytic theory, disability studies, and many more—invites Hebrew literature into a conversation with other literatures, other national and language traditions." — Hebrew Higher Education"Szobel's research brings to light valuable insights into the past, present, and future of gender, nationalism, erasure, silence, representation, and their impact on sexual violence. It's urgent in its truth-telling, and essential in its revealed realities." — Lilith"Well written, original, impressively researched, and replete with newly examined materials, this is a very interesting and, at times, spellbinding study. Szobel is an excellent close reader of texts, who is also extremely well versed in current theoretical and critical writings." — Nili Gold, University of Pennsylvania

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "A Great, Oppressive, Suffocating Blasphemy": Sexualized Violence as an Insidious Trauma1. "Lights in the Darkness": Prostitution, Power, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature2. Sepharadi Jewry in Pre-State Israel: Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Violence in the Work of Shoshana Shababo3. "Do Not Bandage the Wounded": Wounded Soldiers and Nonconsensual Relations in Israeli War Literature4. "Subduing the Terrible Sound of Silence": Memoirs of Incest Survivors5. "The Girl with the Billy-Goat's Hoof ": Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis, and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia LitevskyConclusion: "Silence Cries Out"NotesBibliographyIndex