Midnight Convoy & Other Stories is the only available collection of Yizhar's shorter fiction. He was and still is commonly regarded as both the founding father of Israeli literature and its chief master of prose fiction, writes Professsor Dan Miron...
Strongly autobiographic, Preliminaries progresses frame by frame, showing a boy growing up in a Jewish farming community in Palestine and in the young city of Tel Aviv between the years 1917 and 1930. The boy's sensual experience, his most primary, e...
It's 1948 and the Arab villagers of "Khirbet Khizeh" are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier who is on duty that day finds himself battling on two fronts: with the villagers and, ultimately, with his own conscienc...