Bar-Ilan University Press

A Modern Daughter of the Orient

On the Works of Shoshana Shababo

Yosef Halevi

In the late 1920s, Shoshana Shababo (1910-1982) published her first work. For various reasons this author did not receive recognition, although she was one of the first women writers to live and write in the renewed yishuv of Eretz Israel. Now, for the first time, her work is re-evaluated and her contribution to modern Hebrew literature revealed.

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Danacode: 110-10404 ISBN: 965-226-175-0 Language: Hebrew Pages: 316 Weight: 500 gr Dimensions: 15X22 cm Publication Date: 01/1996 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

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