Lev Hakak

Books

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  The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Literature in Babylon from 1735-1950

  Purdue University Press, 2009

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  Modern Hebrew Literature Made Into Films

  University Press of America, 2001

Additional Books

• The Collected Essays of Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hutsin. Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 2005, 300 pp.
• Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon. The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center Research Institute of Babylonian Jewry, 2003. 400 pp.
• Modern Hebrew Literature Made into Films. University Press of America, 2001, 234 pages.
• Lehorish shir ivri beLos Angeles. Kiryat-Sefer, 1989. Poetry volume republished by: Yaron Golan Publishing Co., Tel-Aviv, 1994.
• A House on a Hill. Yaron Golan, Tel-Aviv, 1994 (146 pages). A novel.
• Equivocal Dreams:  Studies in Modern Hebrew Literature. Kiryat-Sefer, 1991. (195 pages).  Republished by Ktav Publishing Co., New Jersey, 1993.
• Chapters in the Literature of Near Eastern Jews. Kiryat Sefer, 1985.
• Stranger Among Brothers. A translated novel, Ridgefield Publishing, 1984.
• Im Eshkahekh. Jerusalem, Kiryat-Sefer, 1981. (170 pages, (short stories). Republished by: Yaron Golan Publishing Co., Tel-Aviv, 1994.
• Inferiors and Superiors: The Image of Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews in Modern Hebrew Short Story. Kiryat-Sefer, 1981. (176 pages, Hebrew).
• Four Poets (in Hebrew): Abraham Ben Yitshak, Amir Gilbow’a, Nathan Zach, Shelomo Zamir. ‘Eked, Tel-Aviv (1979), 192 pages.
• Ha’asufim.  Tel-Aviv: (1977) (160 pages). A novel.

Selected Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

• “The Holocaust in the Poetry of Near Eastern and Sephardi Jews “. Shofar: An Interdisciplinsry Journsl of Jewish Studies. Purdue University Press, Vol. 23, No. 2, Winter 2005, pp. 89-119.
• “Shlomo Bechor Hutsin: L’intineraire d’un Juif “mskil” de Baghdad.”  In Reeh: Revue Europeenne Des Etudes Hebraiques, University of Paris, viii, No. 5, 2001, pp. 193-213.
• “A Trip to the Future through the Past: Elle Masse Rabbi Yehuda ha-Levi by Yehuda Burla.” Studies on Sephardic Cultures. Edited by M. Mitchell Serels. Yeshiva University, 2001, pp. 57-84.
• New Perspectives on the Haskalah, edited by Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin. Shofar Vol. 21, No. 3.
• Moshe Pelli. Kinds of Genre in Haskalah Literature: Type and Topics. Israel: Hakkibutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1999.  Xxv (English), 357 pp. (Hebrew).
• “Christopher Reeve, an Interview and Review of his book, Still Me, in Ma’ariv, May 20, 1999, pp. 42-44, 46; Shalom L.A., April 15, 1999, pp. 21-23.
• “President Jimmy Carter:  An Interview and Review of his book: The Virtues of Aging”.  In Ma’ariv, Dec. 12, 1998.  Pp. 44-46, 48; and Shalom L.A, April 15, 1999, pp. 20-21.
• “Sexual Symbols in ‘Another Face’ by S.Y. Agnon.” In Short Stories Criticism. Sheets, Anna, Ed. Gale, 1999. Vol. 30, pp. 47-52.
• “Victoria by Sami Michael.” Babylonian Jewry, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 7-42 Hebrew, 31-35 English.
• “From Agnon to Oz: Studies in Modern Hebrew Literature by Warren Bargad.” Hebrew Studies, Vol. 38, 1997, pp. 196-199.
• “Contemporary Literary Work and the Literary Research of Babylonian Jews in Israel.” In Ha’ets veha’anaf, co-authored with Shmuel Moreh, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997, pp. 296-332.
• “Savta Freha:” Excerpt from my novel A House on a Hill, with an introduction and dictionary, adapted for teaching. Lamishpaha, Vol. 35, No., Jan 1997, pp. 10-12.
• “A Book That Was Lost and Other Stories”. Shofar, Vol. 14, No. 4. Summer 1996, PP. 157-160.
• “Gila Ramras-Rouch: The Life and Work of L.A. Arieli (Orloff).” In Hebrew Studies, Vol. 36, 1995, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Pp. 246-249.
• “Sami Michael’s Literary World.” In Babylonian Jewry.  The Babylonian Jews Heritage Center, autumn 1995, No. 1, Pp. 7-33, 47-48.
• “Friha and Jeffrey.”  Mahut, Haberman Institute for Literary Research, 1991-1992, pp. 117-122.
• “About kaddurim vekubiyot – The Poetry Volume of Sehlomo Zamir.” Mahut, Haberman Institute for Literary Research, 1991-1992, pp. 226-232.
• “El ha-Mahar Derekh Yom Etmol.”  Pe’amim, autumn.1993, No. 53, pp. 46-74
• “The Jews of the Magreb in Israeli Literature” in Halutsim bedima’h, Am Oved, Tel-Aviv, 1991, pp. 244-257.
• “Molkho in Five Seasons: A New Outlook.” Mahut, Haberman Institute for Literary Research, A (6), summer 1989, pp. 254-264.
• “Between Franczisk and Magwitch: About Agnon’s In the “City and the Forest” and “Dickens’s Great Expectations. Moznaim, Hebrew Writer’s Association in Israel, Tell-Aviv, Vol. 62, No. 11.  February 1989, pp. 23-25.
• “Estranged Nightingales: On Poetry Written by Near Eastern Jews in Israel.” Hebrew Annual Review, The Ohio State University, Vol. 11, 1987, pp. 129-152.
• “Yemenite Jewry – Origins, Culture and Literature by Reuven Ahroni.” Judaism, Vol. 36, No. 144, fall 1987, pp. 499-501.
• “Sexual Symbols in ‘Another Face’ by S.Y. Agnon.” Hebrew Annual Review, vol. 10, 1986, pp. 95-108.
• “The Literary Work of Near Eastern Jews in Israel.” in Half of the Nation. Shlomo Deshen, Ed. The Kotlar Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought, Bar-Ilan University, 1986, pp. 251-278.
• “‘Shahin’ of Aharon Almog.” In Appirvon. (Winter 1984,85), No. 3, pp. 64-66.
• “The Poetry of Oriental Jews in Israel.” In the Proceedings of The Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C, World Union of Jewish Studies, 1982, pp. 283-288.
• “To the Sorrow.” Yad Leheman. Edited by Zvi Malachi, Haberman Institute for Literary Research.  1983, pp. 197-209.
• “The Image of Sephardim in the Modern Hebrew Short Story.” in The Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage Studies. The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ed. by Isaach Ben-Ami, pp. 297-310. Im Eshkahekh. Jerusalem, Kiryat-Sefer, 1981.  (170 pages). Was republished in its entirety in Ha-mevakker: (11/5/82-1/93). Republished in Yisrael Shelanu (11/13/81-1/8/86).
• “The Contribution of Iraqi Jews to Hebrew Literature in Israel.” in Forum (Winter 1981). No. 42/43, pp. 143-153. (in English), in Hagut Ivrit Be’Artzot Ha ‘Islam. World Hebrew Union and World Jewish Congress. Ed. by Menachem Zohori, pp. 107-118.
• “The Contemporary Literary and Research Activity of Iraqi Jews in Iraq and Israel.” Co-author: Shmuel Moreh. In Studies on the History of the Iraqi Jewry for Research on Iraqi Jewry. The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, Tel-Aviv:  (1981). Pp 83-132 (in Hebrew).
• “The Poetry of Near Eastern Jews.” Yediot Aharonot (September 4, 1981).
• “The Image of the Near Eastern Jewry in Hebrew Literature.” Shevet Ve-am (September 1980), pp. 149-158.
• “A Comparative Study: David Vogel and Natan Alterman.” Hebrew Studies, No. 20-21 (1979-1980), pp. 150-156.
• “Alisa Shenhar’s Third Poetry Volume.” Moznaim Monthly of The Hebrew Writers Association in Israel, (December 1979), pp. 66-67.
• “Four Poems of Shelomo Zamir and some Poetic and Thematic Elements in his Poetry.” Shevet Ve’am (April 1978), pp.476-496.
• “Implied Discourse in Amos Oz’s Novel.” Bitzaron (June 1976), pp. 249-252, 263. Also in Shedemot, No 62, Winter 1977 pp. 82-85.
• “The Contribution of Iraqi Jewry to Israeli Literature.” in Itton 1977 (November-December 1977), pp. 22-23.
• “The Poetry of Amir Gilboa.”  Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter (November 1974).
• “The Motif of the Rooster, in Sippur Pashut by S.J. Agnon.” in Hasifrut, Tel-Aviv University, 1973, pp. 713-725, XL-XLI Volume 4, No. 4, October.

*Many articles in Israeli literary supplements (not listed here)
*Varies articles in Hadoar, including: August 24, 1990, pp. 14-15; 84; March 29, 1991 pp. 24-28  (Poetry). November 17, 1989, pp. 19-22 and November 24, 1989, pp. 20-21; Vol. 53, No. 23, Oct. 7, 1994, No. 24, Oct. 21, 1994, pp. 18-20; Vol. 54, No. 1, Nov. 4, 1994, pp. 19-21, No. 2, Nov. 18, 1994, pp. 22-23, No. 5, Jan. 6, 1995, p. 21; No. 2, Vol. 56, Nov. 22, 1996, pp. 14-17; No. 3, Dec. 6, 1996, pp. 21-23, No. 4, Dec. 20, 1996, pp. 18-20; Vol. 56, No. 19, May 23, 1997, pp. 20-21; Vol. 56, No. 22, Sep. 26, 1997, pp. 28-29; Vol. 57, No. 19, pp. 21-23; No. 20, Aug. 21, 1999, pp. 19-20; Vol. 56, No. 7, Feb. 6, 1998, pp. 20-21; Vol. 48, No. 17; July 9, 1999, pp. 18-19; Vol. 58o, No. 21, Sep. 10, 1999, pp. 32-33, No. 22; Oct. 8, 1999, pp. 22-23; 113. No. 21, Sep. 4, 1998.

Selected Book Reviews (pre-1971)

• Hayom 1969 October 10, 24 and 31; November 7, December 12, 1969; December 25, 1970.
• Davar March 6, 1970.
• Al Hamishar April 12, 1970; January 20, 1971; June 18, 1971; April 30, 1971.

Teaching Text Booklets and Textbooks (pre-1970)

• Chapters in Expression.  Mifal Ha’shikhpul:  Tel-Aviv University (1970). (137 pages).
• Newspaper Hebrew Reader.  (Experimental edition), University of Judaism.
• Drills of Hebrew Expression. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Branch  (1970). (46 pages).

Poetry volumes (two, 1962 and 1965).

Poems published from 1963 until 1971:
Haarets (September 29, 1967; June 6, 1968; February 21, 1969; May 8, 1970; June 11, 1971)
‘Eked Poetry Collection (1970), Tel-Aviv.

• Masa (Lamerhav), (September 3, 1970).
• Davar  (November 20, 1970).
• Al Hamishmar  (July 2, 1971).
• Hatsofe (April 2, 1971).

Masa (Lamerhav), (April 31, 1971); October 5, 1973.
Bamaarakha (March 1974).

Selected Poems:

• Bitzaron (January-February, 1976).
• Hadoar, December 6, 1985, p. 15; January 24, 1986, p. 23;
• Apiryon, No. 4/5 (Winter 1985/86) p. 51
• Manhut, Haberman Institute for Literary Research, A (6), summer 1989, pp. 54-56.
• Sifrutam shel yotse hamizrah beyisrael. Yosef Halevi, ed. Ben-Gurion University, 1979, pp. 42.
• Masa (August 5,1975).
• Moznaim,  Hebrew Writer’s Association in Israel, July 1988, p. 24.
• Appiryon, No. 9, Spring 1988, pp. 40-41.
• Hadoar,  March 18, 1988, Vol. 60, No. 18, p.23.
• Me’ah Shanim Meah Yotsrim.  Bimat Kedem Publishing, 1999, pp. 94-99.
• In The Literary Review:  Israeli Writing.  The Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 311-313.

Republished in: Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing.  Ammiel Alcalay, Ed. City Lights Books, San Francisco, pp. 286-289.