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Dekel Shay Schory (PhD)
Literary editor and researcher. And a book critic
דקל שי שחורי (PhD)
עורכת וחוקרת ספרות


The Day Everything Changed: An Aesthetic-Artistic Experience of Ongoing Trauma
"The Day Everything Changed" succeeds in telling stories of survivors and victims from October 7th where many other texts have failed,...
Sep 209 min read


Home Bound: A Journey of Discovery and Collection
The heroine of Maya Ish Shalom's book is an active, assertive, resourceful woman who knows how to get out of any situation and is...
Sep 208 min read


Edenfrost: Comics About War, Survival and a Mysterious Giant
In the two comic book issues published so far in the Edenfrost series, Amit Tishler unfolds the story of two Jewish siblings escaping...
Sep 205 min read


Drawing the strip: How graphic novels depict the Arab world today
In recent years, graphic novels have become increasingly popular in Arab countries and among Palestinians. "Once the experience is...
Sep 2010 min read


The Uncanny Meeting Point of Languages: Hebrew in G. Shofman and David Vogel’s Vienna
YOD, Inalco (Paris), Vol. 23, 2021. G. Shofman and David Vogel wrote beautiful literature from the multilingual Vienna in the interwar...
Sep 202 min read


The Hebrew Translations of Wilhelm Herzberg’s Jewish Family Papers: Interpretation and Reception in Multiple Layers
in: Wilhelm Herzberg’s Jewish Family Papers (1868) Interdisciplinary Readings of a Forgotten Bestseller , Manja Herrmann (Ed.), Volume 53...
Sep 201 min read


World Literature Today
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/winter An Introduction to Hebrew Lit: Congruency, Clash, and Collision by Yiftach Ashkenazi...
Sep 202 min read


The Shadows of Death: Uri Nissan Gnessin
A short review on Uri Nissan Gnessin's [1879-1913] life and poetics. In Their Surrounding: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in...
Sep 201 min read


Embodied Memory: A Graphic Memoir
Karina Shore's graphic novel, written in English and published in the United States, describes her experiences as a child and teenager...
Sep 208 min read


First Person Plural: "Just a Slightly Strange Widow and Not a Genius"
Short comic strips illustrated by Ron Levin compose a "full-color grief diary" based on texts by Noga Friedman, whose husband was killed...
Sep 207 min read


Remembering What Would Have Been Better to Forget: "Lucy Is Sick" by Roee Rosen
Roee Rosen's new book is by his definition a "children's book for adults," an illustrated diary that unfolds Lucy's illness, created...
Sep 205 min read
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