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An obituary for Gershon Shaked (1929—2006), a major authority in Israeli Literary studies and the author of the master-narrative of secular Hebrew literature. The article points to a disparity between Shaked’s recognized status in the country and his view of himself as a subversive, balloon-puncturing eiron, critical of the exalted Apollonian stance in literature as well as in criticism.
June 2007: Professor Yigal Schwarz is Director of Heksherim Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a senior editor of the publishing house Kenneret Zmora Bitan and Dvir. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Modern Hebrew Literature. His latest book, Vantage Point (2005), deals with the historiography of Hebrew Literature.
