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Lily Rattok

Lily Rattok received her B.A. in philosophy and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University. She is a senior lecturer in the literature department at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include The Hebrew Lyrical Story: Essays; Amaliah Kahana-Carmon: Monograph; A Precarious House: The Narrative Art of A. Appelfeld and Angel of Fire: The Poetry of Yona Wallach. Rattok edited Uri Nisan Genesin: Criticism of His Work; The Other Voice: Women’s Fiction in Hebrew and, with Carol Diament, Ribcage: Israeli Women’s Fiction.

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Israeli Women's Writing in Hebrew: 1948-2004

Women writers faced many obstacles in the early years of modern Hebrew, but by the end of the twentieth century they had overcome marginalization to become a central part of the country’s literature. The achievements of women’s writing in Hebrew rank among the unquestionable triumphs of Israeli feminism.