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It is one of the primary forms of <a href="/wiki/Jewish_literature" title="Jewish literature">Jewish literature</a>, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by <a href="/wiki/Non-Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Jews">non-Jews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hebrew literature was produced in many different parts of the world throughout the medieval and modern eras, while contemporary Hebrew literature is largely <a href="/wiki/Israeli_literature" title="Israeli literature">Israeli literature</a>. In 1966, <a href="/wiki/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon" title="Shmuel Yosef Agnon">Agnon</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize for Literature">Nobel Prize for Literature</a> for novels and short stories that employ a unique blend of biblical, Talmudic and modern Hebrew, making him the first Hebrew writer to receive this award. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ancient_era">Ancient era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ancient era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Hebrew_writings" title="Ancient Hebrew writings">Ancient Hebrew writings</a></div> <p>Literature in Hebrew begins with the <a href="/wiki/Oral_literature" title="Oral literature">oral literature</a> of the <i><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Leshon HaKodesh</i></span></i> (<span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he" dir="rtl">לֶשׁוֹן הֲקוֹדֶשׁ</span></span>), "The <a href="/wiki/Leshon_Hakodesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Leshon Hakodesh">Holy Language</a>", since ancient times and with the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">teachings</a> of <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a>, the first of the <a href="/wiki/Patriarchs_(Bible)" title="Patriarchs (Bible)">biblical patriarchs</a> of <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, c. 2000 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShea2000248_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShea2000248-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beyond comparison, the most important work of ancient Hebrew literature is the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Mishna" class="mw-redirect" title="Mishna">Mishna</a>, compiled around 200 CE, is the primary rabbinic codification of laws as derived from the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>. It was written in <a href="/wiki/Mishnaic_Hebrew" title="Mishnaic Hebrew">Mishnaic Hebrew</a>, but the major commentary on it, the <a href="/wiki/Gemara" title="Gemara">Gemara</a>, was largely written in <a href="/wiki/Aramaic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Aramaic language">Aramaic</a>. Many works of classical <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">midrash</a> were written in Hebrew. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Medieval_era">Medieval era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Medieval era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the medieval period, the majority of Jewish and Hebrew literature was composed in Islamic North Africa, Spain, Palestine, and the Middle East. Many works of medieval <a href="/wiki/Philosophical" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophical">philosophical</a> literature such as Maimonides' <i><a href="/wiki/Guide_to_the_Perplexed" class="mw-redirect" title="Guide to the Perplexed">Guide to the Perplexed</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Kuzari" title="Kuzari">The Kuzari</a></i>, as well as many works of fiction, were written in <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic" title="Judeo-Arabic">Judeo-Arabic</a>. Works of <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_literature" title="Rabbinic literature">rabbinic literature</a> were more often written in Hebrew, including: <a href="/wiki/Torah_commentaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Torah commentaries">Torah commentaries</a> by <a href="/wiki/Abraham_ibn_Ezra" title="Abraham ibn Ezra">Abraham ibn Ezra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rashi" title="Rashi">Rashi</a> and others; codifications of <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">Jewish law</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>' <a href="/wiki/Mishneh_Torah" title="Mishneh Torah">Mishneh Torah</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Arba%27ah_Turim" title="Arba'ah Turim">Arba'ah Turim</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Shulchan_Aruch" title="Shulchan Aruch">Shulchan Aruch</a>; and works of <a href="/wiki/Musar_literature" title="Musar literature">Musar literature</a> (didactic ethical literature) such as <a href="/wiki/Bahya_ibn_Paquda" title="Bahya ibn Paquda">Bahya ibn Paquda</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Chovot_ha-Levavot" class="mw-redirect" title="Chovot ha-Levavot">Chovot ha-Levavot</a></i> (<i>The Duties of the Heart</i>). One work of fiction which was written in Hebrew was the "Fox Fables" by <a href="/wiki/Berechiah_ben_Natronai_ha-Nakdan" class="mw-redirect" title="Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan">Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan</a>, Hebrew fables which resemble <a href="/wiki/Aesop%27s_fables" class="mw-redirect" title="Aesop's fables">Aesop's fables</a>. </p><p>Much medieval Jewish poetry was written in Hebrew, including liturgical <a href="/wiki/Piyyutim" class="mw-redirect" title="Piyyutim">piyyutim</a> in Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries by Yose ben Yose, <a href="/wiki/Yanai_(Payetan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yanai (Payetan)">Yanai</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eleazar_Kalir" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleazar Kalir">Eleazar Kalir</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These poems were added to the Hebrew-language liturgy. This liturgy was compiled in book form as "the siddur" by rabbis including <a href="/wiki/Amram_Gaon" class="mw-redirect" title="Amram Gaon">Amram Gaon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saadia_Gaon" title="Saadia Gaon">Saadia Gaon</a>. Later Spanish, Provençal, and Italian poets wrote both religious and secular poems; particularly prominent poets were <a href="/wiki/Solomon_ibn_Gabirol" title="Solomon ibn Gabirol">Solomon ibn Gabirol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yehuda_Halevi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yehuda Halevi">Yehuda Halevi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yehuda_al-Harizi" class="mw-redirect" title="Yehuda al-Harizi">Yehuda al-Harizi</a>. Most were also active in translating Jewish rabbinic and secular literature from Arabic into Hebrew. </p><p>Only one Hebrew poem by a woman is attested for the medieval period (and is both the first and the last for some centuries): composed by the wife of <a href="/wiki/Dunash_ben_Labrat" title="Dunash ben Labrat">Dunash ben Labrat</a>, it laments Dunash's departure into exile.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_era">Modern era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Modern era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to writing traditional <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_literature" title="Rabbinic literature">rabbinic literature</a> in Hebrew, modern Jews developed new forms of fiction, poetry, and essay-writing, which are typically called "Modern Hebrew Literature". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the early eighteenth century, Jewish literature was still dominated by Sephardic authors, often writing in <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic" title="Judeo-Arabic">Judeo-Arabic</a>. <a href="/wiki/Moses_Hayyim_Luzzatto" class="mw-redirect" title="Moses Hayyim Luzzatto">Moses Hayyim Luzzatto</a>'s allegorical drama "La-Yesharim Tehillah" (1743) may be regarded as the first product of modern Hebrew literature. It has been referred to as "a poem that in its classic perfection of style is second only to the Bible".<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luzzatto's pupil in Amsterdam, <a href="/wiki/David_Franco_Mendes" title="David Franco Mendes">David Franco Mendes</a> (1713–92), in his imitations of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Racine" title="Jean Racine">Jean Racine</a> ("Gemul 'Atalyah") and of <a href="/wiki/Metastasio" class="mw-redirect" title="Metastasio">Metastasio</a> ("Yehudit"), continued his master's work, though his works are not as respected as were Luzzatto's.<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in the eighteenth century, the <a href="/wiki/Haskalah" title="Haskalah">Haskalah</a> (Jewish enlightenment) movement worked to achieve <a href="/wiki/Jewish_emancipation" title="Jewish emancipation">political emancipation for Jews in Europe</a>, and European Jews gradually began to produce more literature in the mould of earlier Middle Eastern Jewish authors. <a href="/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn" title="Moses Mendelssohn">Moses Mendelssohn</a>'s translation of the Hebrew Bible into <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> inspired interest in the Hebrew language that led to the founding of a quarterly review written in Hebrew. Other periodicals followed. Poetry by <a href="/wiki/Naphtali_Hirz_Wessely" title="Naphtali Hirz Wessely">Naphtali Hirz Wessely</a> such as "Shire Tif'eret," or "Mosiade," made Wessely, so to speak, poet laureate of the period.<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia1_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In nineteenth-century Galicia, poets, scholars, and popular writers who contributed to the dissemination of Hebrew and to the emancipation of the Jews of Galicia included: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Perl" title="Joseph Perl">Joseph Perl</a> (1773–1839), writer and educator who, in 1819, published <i><a href="/wiki/Revealer_of_Secrets" title="Revealer of Secrets">Revealer of Secrets</a></i>, the first Hebrew novel.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nachman_Krochmal" title="Nachman Krochmal">Nachman Krochmal</a> (1785–1840), a philosopher, theologian, and historian.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Judah_Loeb_Rapoport" title="Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport">Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport</a> (1790–1867), a rabbi, poet, and biographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Erter" title="Isaac Erter">Isaac Erter</a> (1792–1841), a satirical poet whose collection of essays, "Ha-Tzofeh le-Bet Yisrael", is one of the purest works of modern Hebrew literature, attacking <a href="/wiki/Hasidic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasidic">Hasidic</a> superstitions and prejudices in a vigorous and classical style.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meir_Halevy_Letteris" class="mw-redirect" title="Meir Halevy Letteris">Meir Halevy Letteris</a> (1800–1871), a lyric poet also known for his adaption of <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust" title="Goethe's Faust">Faust</a></i> into Hebrew.</li></ul> <p>In 19th century <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, Hebrew-language authors included the poet <a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Molder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel Molder (page does not exist)">Samuel Molder</a> (1789–1862). <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a> became an active center for the <a href="/wiki/Haskalah" title="Haskalah">Haskalah</a>. One of the leading <a href="/wiki/Haskalah" title="Haskalah">Haskalah</a> writers there was Jehudah Loeb Jeiteles (1773–1838), author of witty epigrams ("Bene ha-Ne'urim") and criticism of <a href="/wiki/Hasidism" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasidism">Hasidism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Superstition" title="Superstition">superstition</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, Hebrew-language authors included Solomon Lewison of Moor (1789–1822), author of "Melitzat Yeshurun"; <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gabriel_S%C3%BCdfeld&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gabriel Südfeld (page does not exist)">Gabriel Südfeld</a>, a poet who was the father of <a href="/wiki/Max_Nordau" title="Max Nordau">Max Nordau</a>; and the poet <a href="/wiki/Simon_Bacher" title="Simon Bacher">Simon Bacher</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A notable Jewish author in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> during the nineteenth century was the physician and writer <a href="/wiki/Iuliu_Barasch" title="Iuliu Barasch">Julius Barasch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Italian Jews of the nineteenth-century who wrote in Hebrew included <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Samuel_Reggio" title="Isaac Samuel Reggio">I. S. Reggio</a> (1784–1854), Joseph Almanzi, Hayyim Salomon, Samuel Vita Lolli (1788–1843). Another figure of note was <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Luzzatto_Morpurgo" title="Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo">Rachel Morpurgo</a> (1790–1860), who was one of the few female writers in the <a href="/wiki/Haskalah" title="Haskalah">Haskalah</a> movement, and whose poems have been described as characterized by "religious piety and a mystic faith in Israel's future".<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia2_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The best known Italian writer was <a href="/wiki/Samuel_David_Luzzatto" title="Samuel David Luzzatto">Samuel David Luzzatto</a> (1800–65) was the first modern writer to introduce religious <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">romanticism</a> into Hebrew and to attack northern rationalism in the name of religious and national feeling.<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia2_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prominent Hebrew writers in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian empire">Russian empire</a> in the nineteenth century included: </p> <ul><li>the poet and mathematician Jacob Eichenbaum (1796–1861)</li> <li>the Haskalah leader <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Baer_Levinsohn" title="Isaac Baer Levinsohn">Isaac Baer Levinsohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalman_Schulman" title="Kalman Schulman">Kalman Schulman</a> (1826–1900), who introduced the romantic form into Hebrew</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Romantic_poetry" title="Romantic poetry">romantic poet</a> <a href="/wiki/Micah_Joseph_Lebensohn" title="Micah Joseph Lebensohn">Micah Joseph Lebensohn</a> (1828–52)</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Lithuanians" title="Lithuanians">Lithuanian</a> author <a href="/wiki/Mordecai_Aaron_G%C3%BCnzburg" title="Mordecai Aaron Günzburg">Mordecai Aaron Ginzburg</a>, known as "the father of prose"</li> <li>Lithuanian poet <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Baer_Lebensohn" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Baer Lebensohn">Abraham Baer Lebensohn</a>, known as the "father of poetry", whose poems "Shire Sefat Kodesh" were extraordinarily successful.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Mapu" title="Abraham Mapu">Abraham Mapu</a> (1808–67), the creator of the Hebrew novel, whose historical romance "Ahabat Tziyyon" exercised an important influence on the development of Hebrew.</li></ul> <p>The poet <a href="/wiki/Judah_Leib_Gordon" title="Judah Leib Gordon">Judah Leib Gordon</a>, also known as "Leon Gordon" (1831–1892), was a well-known <a href="/wiki/Satirical" class="mw-redirect" title="Satirical">satirical</a> poet who has been characterized as "an implacable enemy of the <a href="/wiki/Rabbis" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabbis">Rabbis</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-jewishencyclopedia2_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jewishencyclopedia2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As <a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionist</a> settlement in <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a> intensified at the start of the twentieth century, Hebrew became the shared language of the various Jewish immigrant communities along with native <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Jews" title="Palestinian Jews">Palestinian Jews</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Yishuv" title="Old Yishuv">Old Yishuv</a>, who continued the literary traditions of earlier Sephardic and Arab-Jewish writers such as Maimonedes (Moshe ibn Maimoun) and al-Harizi. <a href="/wiki/Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda" title="Eliezer Ben-Yehuda">Eliezer Ben-Yehuda</a> in particular worked to adapt Hebrew to the needs of the modern world, turning to Hebrew sources from all periods and locales to develop a language that went beyond the sacred and poetic and was capable of articulating the modern experience. </p><p>With the rise of the Zionist movement amongst Jews in Europe, Ashkenazi Jews embraced Hebrew literature and began to dominate it for the first time. The foundations of modern <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> writing were laid by a group of literary pioneers from the <a href="/wiki/Second_Aliyah" title="Second Aliyah">Second Aliyah</a> including <a href="/wiki/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon" title="Shmuel Yosef Agnon">Shmuel Yosef Agnon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moshe_Smilansky" title="Moshe Smilansky">Moshe Smilansky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yosef_Haim_Brenner" title="Yosef Haim Brenner">Yosef Haim Brenner</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Shimoni" title="David Shimoni">David Shimoni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Fichman" title="Jacob Fichman">Jacob Fichman</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hayim_Nahman_Bialik" title="Hayim Nahman Bialik">Hayim Nahman Bialik</a> (1873–1934) was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_poet" title="National poet">national poet</a>. Bialik contributed significantly to the revival of the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew language</a>, which before his days existed primarily as an ancient, scholarly, or poetic tongue. Bialik, like other great literary figures from the early part of the 20th century such as <a href="/wiki/Ahad_Ha-Am" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahad Ha-Am">Ahad Ha-Am</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shaul_Tchernichovsky" title="Shaul Tchernichovsky">Tchernichovsky</a>, spent his last years in Tel Aviv, and exerted a great influence on younger Hebrew writers; the impact of his work is evident throughout modern Hebrew literature.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In parallel, a number of Palestinian and Levantine Jewish writers were influenced by the resurgence of Hebrew literature, and adopted Hebrew for their writings. In contrast to the experiences of pioneers such as Bialik, who were Ashkenazi immigrants from Europe, the Levantine Jewish writers were educated in Arabic literary traditions, and thus they incorporated many Arabic, Sephardic, and vernacular Palestinian themes and linguistic elements in their writing. Novelist <a href="/wiki/Yehuda_Burla" title="Yehuda Burla">Yehuda Burla</a>, born in Jerusalem in 1886, served in the Ottoman army, and later taught Hebrew and Arabic in Damascus. In 1961, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Prize" title="Israel Prize">Israel Prize</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The novelist <a href="/wiki/Yitzhaq_Shami" title="Yitzhaq Shami">Yitzhaq Shami</a> was a Palestinian Jewish native of Hebron, and his work—which was written from the perspective of both Arabic-speaking Jews and Muslim Palestinians—incorporated diverse Arabic, Sephardic, and Middle Eastern themes. Shami holds a relatively unique place in Hebrew literature, since his writing is also recognized as Palestinian literature; in 2004 Shami was recognized by the Palestinian Academic Society as one of the important Palestinian writers. </p><p>In 1966, <a href="/wiki/Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon" title="Shmuel Yosef Agnon">Agnon</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize for Literature">Nobel Prize for Literature</a> for novels and short stories that employ a unique blend of biblical, Talmudic and modern Hebrew. <a href="/wiki/Translation" title="Translation">Literary translators</a> into <a href="/wiki/Modern_Hebrew" title="Modern Hebrew">Modern Hebrew</a>, most notably <a href="/wiki/Leah_Goldberg" title="Leah Goldberg">Leah Goldberg</a> among others, also contributed a great deal to Israeli-Hebrew literature through bringing international literature and literary figures into Hebrew circles through translation. <a href="/wiki/Leah_Goldberg" title="Leah Goldberg">Goldberg</a> herself was also noted for being a prolific writer and pioneer of Israeli children's literature as well. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contemporary_era">Contemporary era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Contemporary era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Israeli_literature" title="Israeli literature">Israeli literature</a></div> <p>A new generation of Hebrew writers emerged with the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Israel">State of Israel</a> in 1948. This new generation included the novelists <a href="/wiki/Aharon_Megged" title="Aharon Megged">Aharon Megged</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Shaham" title="Nathan Shaham">Nathan Shaham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Moshe_Shamir" title="Moshe Shamir">Moshe Shamir</a>, and the poets <a href="/wiki/Yehudah_Amichai" class="mw-redirect" title="Yehudah Amichai">Yehudah Amichai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amir_Gilboa" title="Amir Gilboa">Amir Gilboa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Haim_Gouri" title="Haim Gouri">Haim Gouri</a>. The novels <i>My Michael</i> (1968) and <i>Black Box</i> (1987) by <a href="/wiki/Amos_Oz" title="Amos Oz">Amos Oz</a> and <i>The Lover</i> (1977) and <i>Mr. Mani</i> (1990) by <a href="/wiki/A._B._Yehoshua" title="A. B. Yehoshua">A. B. Yehoshua</a> describe life in the new state. These works also explore topics such as the <a href="/wiki/Generation_gap" title="Generation gap">conflict between parents and children</a> and the rejection of some once-sacred ideals of <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionism</a>. Many Hebrew writers in the late twentieth century dealt with <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, women's issues, and the <a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" title="Arab–Israeli conflict">conflict between Israelis and Arabs</a>. Another topic was the tension between Jews of European origin, the <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazim" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashkenazim">Ashkenazim</a>, and Jews of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean origin, the <a href="/wiki/Mizrahim" class="mw-redirect" title="Mizrahim">Mizrahim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sephardim" class="mw-redirect" title="Sephardim">Sephardim</a>. In 1986, the Palestinian-Israeli author <a href="/wiki/Anton_Shammas" title="Anton Shammas">Anton Shammas</a> published the Hebrew novel "Arabesques", marking a milestone with the first major work of Hebrew literature written by a non-Jewish Israeli. Shammas's novel has been translated into a number of foreign languages. </p><p>Modern Hebrew authors include <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Almog" title="Ruth Almog">Ruth Almog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aharon_Appelfeld" title="Aharon Appelfeld">Aharon Appelfeld</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Grossman" title="David Grossman">David Grossman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amalia_Kahana-Carmon" title="Amalia Kahana-Carmon">Amalia Kahana-Carmon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Etgar_Keret" title="Etgar Keret">Etgar Keret</a>, <a href="/wiki/Savyon_Liebrecht" title="Savyon Liebrecht">Savyon Liebrecht</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sami_Michael" title="Sami Michael">Sami Michael</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yaakov_Shabtai" title="Yaakov Shabtai">Yaakov Shabtai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meir_Shalev" title="Meir Shalev">Meir Shalev</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zeruya_Shalev" title="Zeruya Shalev">Zeruya Shalev</a>. Contemporary Israeli authors whose works have been translated into other languages and attained international recognition are <a href="/wiki/Ephraim_Kishon" title="Ephraim Kishon">Ephraim Kishon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yaakov_Shabtai" title="Yaakov Shabtai">Yaakov Shabtai</a>, <a href="/wiki/A._B._Yehoshua" title="A. B. Yehoshua">A. B. Yehoshua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amos_Oz" title="Amos Oz">Amos Oz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irit_Linur" title="Irit Linur">Irit Linur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Etgar_Keret" title="Etgar Keret">Etgar Keret</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yehoshua_Sobol" title="Yehoshua Sobol">Yehoshua Sobol</a>. Hebrew poets include <a href="/wiki/David_Avidan" title="David Avidan">David Avidan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maya_Bejerano" title="Maya Bejerano">Maya Bejerano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erez_Biton" title="Erez Biton">Erez Biton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Pagis" title="Dan Pagis">Dan Pagis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dalia_Ravikovitch" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalia Ravikovitch">Dalia Ravikovitch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ronny_Someck" title="Ronny Someck">Ronny Someck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meir_Wieseltier" title="Meir Wieseltier">Meir Wieseltier</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yona_Wallach" title="Yona Wallach">Yona Wallach</a>. In the 2010s, thousands of new books are published in Hebrew each year, both translations from other languages and original works by Israeli authors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hebrew_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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