This volume, sixth in a series of studies by Prof. Yehuda Friedlander in modern Hebrew literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deals with the cultural-literary uniqueness of the debate between rabbis and maskilim in Lithuania in the ninetee

Modern Hebrew Literature is engaged overtly and covertly, consciously and unconsciously, with moral issues. Historical upheavals – wars, immigration, the establishment of the independent country, the formation of an old-new culture – have brought about th

This book illuminates halakhic issues as depicted in the struggle between Mitnagdim, Maskilim and Hasidism. It includes literary analyses of selected works of Hatam Sofer, Abraham Lieb Benjaminson, Yehuda Leib Gordon, Shmuel Joseph Agnon and Haim Hazaz.

A critical edition of Kinath Haemeth by Y.L.’Myzes and Mishnath Elisha ben Abuya by M.L. Lilienblum. The role of the Rambam and Elisha ben Abuya as archetypes in Hebrew satire is demonstrated.

An analysis of the satiric works written by Israel of Zamosc and Mendel Landsberg, including a critical edition of Landsberg's unpublished manuscript.

The Haifa Municipality Avraham Kariv Prize in Literary Criticism, 1992. In this book the author illuminates the polemic-satiric elements of the works of Tuvia Feder, Meir Israel Bresselau and an anonymous writer. The texts of these satirical works, two