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- PoetryפיוטיםEleazar ha-Kalir · 600not translated into EnglishLiturgical hymns in Hebrew composed in the land of Israel around the year 600, part of which is still recited in the synagogue.Literature
- NarrativeEldad the Daniteספר אלדד הדניEldad ha-Dani · 880Account of a ninth-century Jewish traveller who claimed to have come from a kingdom of the lost tribes in eastern Africa, and brought back from it unknown laws.Literature
- PoetrySelected Poems of Jehudah HaleviשיריםYehuda Halevi · 1130Poems by a Jewish physician and thinker of twelfth-century Spain, about thirty of which turn towards Zion.LiteraturePublic domain
- Theatreלישרים תהילהMoshe Chaim Luzzatto · 1743not translated into EnglishAn allegorical drama in Hebrew from 1743, in which virtues and vices contend for a bride, written for the wedding of a friend of the author.Literature
- Epicשירי תפארתNaphtali Herz Wessely · 1789not translated into EnglishPublished in Berlin from 1789, the epic of the Jewish Enlightenment on Moses and the Exodus, in eighteen cantos and in biblical Hebrew.LiteraturePublic domain
- Poetryכנור נעיםSamuel David Luzzatto · 1825not translated into EnglishA youthful collection by a philologist from Trieste: Hebrew poems written in adolescence, published in Vienna ten years later.Literature
- NovelThe Love of Zionאהבת ציוןAbraham Mapu · 1853Published in Vilna in 1853, the first modern Hebrew novel: thwarted loves in the Jerusalem of Ahaz and Hezekiah, in the time of the prophet Isaiah.LiteraturePublic domain
- Poetryקוצו של יודYehuda Leib Gordon · 1876not translated into EnglishVerse satire published in 1876 in the journal Ha-Shahar: rabbinic authority attacked through the fate of a woman whom the law leaves chained to a missing husband.Literature
- Novelהתועה בדרכי החייםPeretz Smolenskin · 1876not translated into EnglishFirst novel by a writer from the Russian Empire settled in Vienna, first published as a serial in his journal and then collected in a volume: a Jewish life told in the first person and without sparing anyone.Literature
- NovelThe Brief Travels of Benjamin the Thirdקיצור מסעות בנימין השלישיMendele Mocher Sforim · 1878Published in Yiddish in 1878, the Jewish Don Quixote: two naive men from a wretched small town set out to find the Ten Tribes.Literature
- PoetryIn the City of Slaughterבעיר ההרגהHayim Nahman Bialik · 1904A poem of 1904 on the Kishinev pogrom: a divine voice leads the poet among the ruins and accuses the victims of passivity.Literature
- TaleThe Book of Legendsספר האגדהHayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky · 1908Anthology published in Odessa from 1908: the stories of the Talmud and the midrashim, drawn from the legal debates and made accessible to all.Literature
- NarrativeThe Time BeforeבטרםUri Nissan Gnessin · 1909A novella of 1909, the third in a sequence of four: Hebrew prose here learns to render the course of a consciousness rather than a sequence of events.Literature
- TaleThe Magicianדער קונצנמאכערIsaac Leib Peretz · 1917A Yiddish tale by Peretz: a passing magician invites himself into the home of poor people who have nothing with which to celebrate Passover, and their table fills with food.Literature
- NovelBreakdown and Bereavementשכול וכישלוןYosef Haim Brenner · 1920A novel of 1920, Brenner's last: a broken pioneer in pre-1914 Palestine, between Galilee and Jerusalem.Literature
- Poetryאומרים ישנה ארץSaul Tchernichovsky · 1923not translated into EnglishA poem of 1923, written in Berlin in two versions: a land of promised sun that cannot be found, then the meeting with Rabbi Akiva.Literature
- PoetryספיחRachel the Poetess · 1927not translated into EnglishRachel's first collection, published in 1927 by the press of the newspaper Davar, four years before her death: short, simple poems, loved from the moment they appeared.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryבגלגלAvraham Shlonsky · 1927not translated into EnglishA 1927 collection by a twenty-seven-year-old poet: the words of Jewish prayer turned towards the labour of the pioneers who were opening the country's roads.Literature
- NovelMarried Lifeחיי נישואיםDavid Vogel · 1929A novel published from 1929, which went unnoticed, and regarded since its 1986 reissue as a summit of Hebrew-language fiction.Literature
- PoetryקמשוניםEsther Raab · 1930not translated into EnglishA collection of 1930, the first by a woman born in the country: Hebrew poetry is born there from the experience of the land and not from the love one bears it from afar.Literature
- Short storiesקטנותDevorah Baron · 1933not translated into EnglishA collection from 1933: the Jewish small town and its most destitute inhabitants, seen by an author who came from there.Literature
- CinemaLand of PromiseJuda Leman · 1935A documentary from 1935 commissioned by the Keren Hayesod to raise funds, which for decades fixed the way the Zionist enterprise was filmed.Cinema
- Poetryכוכבים בחוץNathan Alterman · 1938not translated into EnglishAlterman's first collection, published in February 1938: nearly seventy poems composed as a single whole, between wonder and a foreboding of death.Literature
- CinemaUpon the Ruinsמעל החורבותNathan Axelrod · 1938Fiction film released in 1938: Jewish teenagers who have come from Germany, and the story a counsellor tells them about children of Galilee facing the Romans.Cinema
- Novelעלילות עקביהYehuda Burla · 1939not translated into EnglishA novel of 1939 in two parts: a young Jew of Anatolia, a man of nature with the soul of a prophet, from the Turkish mountains to the land of his fathers.Literature
- NovelA Guest for the Nightאורח נטה ללוןShmuel Yosef Agnon · 1939A novel of 1939: a writer from Jerusalem returns to his native small town in Galicia, ruined by the war, and tries to bring back to life the abandoned place of study.Literature
- NarrativeThe SermonהדרשהHayim Hazaz · 1942A story from 1942, made almost entirely of a speech: a taciturn fighter takes the floor and rejects two thousand years of exile.Literature
- NovelAnd This Is the Lightוהוא האורLeah Goldberg · 1946The author's only novel, published in 1946: the summer of a student back from Berlin in her native town in Lithuania.Literature
- Novelהוא הלך בשדותMoshe Shamir · 1947not translated into EnglishA novel of 1947 about the first child of a kibbutz: the young man born in the country becomes in it the very figure of the sabra, which stage and screen would fix.Literature
- CinemaThe Great PromiseJoseph Lejtes · 1947A 1947 English-language film: Jewish soldiers from Palestine tell a camp survivor about their country.Cinema
- CinemaMy Father's HouseHerbert Kline · 1947A 1947 film in English: a surviving child searches for his father in a Palestine that the film shows to the viewer at the same time as to him.Cinema
- NarrativeKhirbet Khizehחרבת חזעהS. Yizhar · 1949A story from 1949: a soldier recounts the expulsion of Arab villagers during the war, from the side of those who carry it out; the first Israeli story on this subject.Literature
- Poetryפרחי אשHaim Gouri · 1949not translated into EnglishFirst collection by a twenty-six-year-old fighter, published in 1949: war, love and dead comrades, in the voice of a generation.Literature
- Poetryרחובות הנהרUri Zvi Greenberg · 1951not translated into EnglishA 1951 collection: the lament of a Hebrew poet for his murdered kin and for an entire people, in the aftermath of the Shoah.Literature
- NovelStreet of Stepsרחוב המדרגותYehudit Hendel · 1955The first novel of a young woman from Haifa, published in 1955, which placed the rift between Oriental Jews and Ashkenazim at the centre of a book four years before the Wadi Salib riots.Literature
- Poetryעכשיו ובימים האחריםYehuda Amichai · 1955not translated into EnglishFirst collection, published in 1955: a poet who says “I” when his generation said “we”, and the battles of 1948 seen by those who fought them.Literature
- CinemaHill 24 Doesn't Answerגבעה 24 אינה עונהThorold Dickinson · 1955The first feature film produced in the State of Israel, released in 1955: four volunteers sent to a hill in the last hours of the war, and their stories.Cinema
- Poetryאהבת תפוח הזהבDahlia Ravikovitch · 1959not translated into EnglishFirst collection, published in 1959: ballads in biblical Hebrew, in which a fruit loves the one who eats it.Literature
- Poetryשירים שוניםNathan Zach · 1960not translated into EnglishA 1960 collection through which young Israeli poetry broke with rhyme, metre and the collective voice.Literature
- CinemaThey Were Tenהם היו עשרהBaruch Dienar · 1960A 1960 film about ten Jewish pioneers settled in Galilee in Ottoman times, which critics have read as a Zionist western.Cinema
- TheatreThe American Princessהנסיכה האמריקאיתNissim Aloni · 1963A play from 1963, the first production of the Seasons theatre founded by the author: a deposed king, his son, and a film that someone wants to make from their lives.Literature
- CinemaEldoradoאלדורדוMenahem Golan · 1963Menahem Golan's first film, in 1963: a Jaffa thug acquitted of a murder wants to leave the underworld, and society does not believe him.Cinema
- NarrativeThe Death of Lysandaמות ליסאנדהYitzhak Orpaz · 1964The first of Orpaz's three novellas, published in 1964: a couple without desire, a dreamed-of woman, and the slide from the banal into the unreal.Literature
- NovelהמעברהShimon Ballas · 1964not translated into EnglishA novel of 1964: the life of an immigrant camp told by a writer who came, like his characters, from Baghdad, and who had lived there.Literature
- NovelHimmo, King of Jerusalemחימו מלך ירושליםYoram Kaniuk · 1966A novel of 1966: in besieged Jerusalem, a nurse and a maimed soldier, and the question of what is owed to a life reduced to almost nothing.Literature
- Short storiesבכפיפה אחתAmalia Kahana-Carmon · 1966not translated into EnglishFirst book by a forty-year-old prose writer, published in 1966: moments of dazzlement, and a voice that resembled no other of her generation.Literature
- NovelThe Man from Thereהאיש משםYitzhak Ben-Ner · 1967A first novel for adults, published in 1967: a maimed Jewish soldier caught in an Egyptian border town at the start of the 1948 war.Literature
- CinemaThree Days and a Childשלושה ימים וילדUri Zohar · 19671967 film based on a short story by A. B. Yehoshua: a man looks after the child of his former love for three days.Cinema
- CinemaHe Walked Through the Fieldsהוא הלך בשדותYosef Millo · 1967A 1967 adaptation of a novel of 1947: a kibbutz son torn between the refugee he loves and the Palmach, in the role that launched Assi Dayan.Cinema
- NovelMy Michaelמיכאל שליAmos Oz · 1968A novel of 1968, written in the first person by a young woman of Jerusalem whose daydreams distance her from an overly sensible husband.Literature
- Poetryשני גניםYona Wallach · 1969not translated into EnglishThe second collection by a poet of twenty-five, published in 1969 by a publisher of experimental books: desire and identity spoken in the first person, without detour.Literature
- NovelSummer in the Street of the Prophetsקיץ בדרך הנביאיםDavid Shahar · 1969First volume of a long novel cycle, published in 1969: Mandate Jerusalem seen by a child, and the man who reveals it to him.Literature
- CinemaThe Policemanהשוטר אזולאיEphraim Kishon · 1971A comedy from 1971: a police officer in Jaffa, too good for his job, whom his superiors want to dismiss.Cinema
- NovelCity of Many Daysעיר ימים רביםShulamith Hareven · 1972The first novel by a forty-two-year-old woman writer, published in 1972: the Jerusalem of the Mandate in her childhood, told in several voices.Literature
- CinemaThe House on Chelouche Streetהבית ברחוב שלושMoshé Mizrahi · 1973Film of 1973: a widow from Alexandria and her eldest son in the Tel Aviv of the last months of the British Mandate.Cinema
- CinemaBut Where Is Daniel Wax?לאן נעלם דניאל וקס?Avraham Heffner · 1974A film released in 1974: a singer back from America travels the country looking for the one who was the star of his class.Cinema
- NovelPast Continuousזכרון דבריםYaakov Shabtai · 1977A novel of 1977 held in a single paragraph from beginning to end: nine months in the life of three men of Tel Aviv, in the language of everyday.Literature
- NovelThe LoverהמאהבA. B. Yehoshua · 1977A novel of 1977 in monologues by six characters: a lover who has disappeared in the war, and the husband who is looking for him.Literature
- CinemaParatroopersמסע אלונקותJudd Ne'eman · 1977A 1977 film about a camp of paratrooper recruits, the first in Israeli cinema to call into question the violence of the combat units.Cinema
- NovelBadenheim 1939באדנהיים עיר נופשAharon Appelfeld · 1978A novel from 1978: the season begins at the spa town, the spa guests arrive, and a sanitary department starts counting the Jews.Literature
- CinemaLemon Popsicleאסקימו לימוןBoaz Davidson · 1978A 1978 comedy about three schoolboys in the Tel Aviv of 1958, one of the greatest successes of Israeli cinema.Cinema
- NovelFeathersנוצותHaim Be'er · 1979A novel of 1979, from the Jerusalem of the fifties to the shores of the Bitter Lake in 1973: a band of neighbourhood utopians, seen by a child who believed them.Literature
- CinemaThe Wooden Gunרובה חוליותIlan Moshenson · 1979A film from 1979: gangs of children wage war on each other in the Tel Aviv of 1950, near a survivor whom the neighbourhood considers mad.Cinema
- CinemaMomentsרגעיםMichal Bat-Adam · 1979A Franco-Israeli film of 1979, written, directed and acted by the same woman: two strangers in Jerusalem, and a censorship that lasted thirty-four years.Cinema
- CinemaTransitטרנזיטDaniel Wachsmann · 1980A 1980 film about a German Jew in Tel Aviv who has never stopped thinking of himself as passing through and dreams of returning to Berlin.Cinema
- CinemaHide and SeekמחבואיםDan Wolman · 1980A film from 1980: in the Jerusalem of 1946, a boy suspects his tutor of treason; the first Israeli film whose main character is homosexual.Cinema
- TheatreThe Torments of Jobייסורי איובHanoch Levin · 1981A 1981 play that follows the biblical story and turns it around, mingling the Passion with it: a man from whom everything is taken, to the very end.Literature
- CinemaRepeat Diveצלילה חוזרתShimon Dotan · 1982A 1982 film about Israeli combat divers: a fighter killed, his young widow and the comrade who becomes attached to her.Cinema
- CinemaBeyond the Wallsמאחורי הסורגיםUri Barbash · 1984A 1984 film: in an Israeli prison, Jewish and Palestinian inmates, whom the management sets about pitting against each other, come to stand together.Cinema
- CinemaOn a Narrow Bridgeגשר צר מאודNissim Dayan · 1985A film of 1985 shot in Ramallah: an Israeli military prosecutor and a Christian Palestinian widow fall in love despite their own people.Cinema
- NovelInfiltrationהתגנבות יחידיםYehoshua Kenaz · 1986A novel from 1986 about the training of a section of recruits unfit for combat, shortly after independence: Israeli society of the time seen from the barrack room.Literature
- NovelSee Under: Loveעיין ערך: אהבהDavid Grossman · 1986A novel from 1986: a boy grows up amid things that are named in front of him without being explained to him, and will spend his life trying to say them.Literature
- CinemaAvanti Popoloאוונטי פופולוRafi Bukai · 1986A film from 1986: two Egyptian soldiers lost in the Sinai in June 1967, and the conflict seen from the side of the defeated.Cinema
- NovelArabesquesערבסקותAnton Shammas · 1986A novel from 1986: an Arab of Israel takes Hebrew as his literary language, between a family chronicle of Galilee and the question of who owns a language.Literature
- NovelA Trumpet in the Wadiחצוצרה בוואדיSami Michael · 1987A novel from 1987: a Christian Arab woman from Haifa and her neighbour, a trumpeter who came from the Soviet Union, in the months before the Lebanon war.Literature
- NovelFoiglmanפויגלמןAharon Megged · 1987A novel of 1987 about an Israeli historian and a Yiddish poet: a country's attraction to, and unease before, the Jewish culture of Europe that it had wanted to leave behind.Literature
- CinemaTel Aviv-Berlinתל אביב-ברליןTzipi Trope · 1987A film of 1987: a survivor who came from Berlin and settled in Tel Aviv, whom the lost city and a former kapo will not leave in peace.Cinema
- CinemaHimmo, King of Jerusalemחימו מלך ירושליםAmos Guttman · 1987A 1987 film based on the book by Yoram Kaniuk: the siege of Jerusalem seen from the beds of a makeshift hospital.Cinema
- CinemaLate Summer Bluesבלוז לחופש הגדולRenen Schorr · 1987A 1987 film about the last summer before the army, in 1970: a group of Tel Aviv high-school students and a country at war on the canal.Cinema
- CinemaBecause of That Warבגלל המלחמה ההיאOrna Ben-Dor Niv · 1988A 1988 documentary about two sons of survivors and the album they made from their parents' story.Cinema
- NovelThe Blue Mountainרומן רוסיMeir Shalev · 1988First novel, published in 1988: the epic of a pioneer village in the north of the country, told by a grandson, somewhere between chronicle and fable.Literature
- CinemaGreen Fieldsשדות ירוקיםYitzhak Yeshurun · 1989A 1989 film: three generations of one family on the roads of the West Bank during the first intifada.Cinema
- CinemaShurooשורוSavi Gabizon · 1990A 1990 film: an unsuccessful merchant who becomes a guru in spite of himself, in the urban and nocturnal vein of Israeli cinema of the time.Cinema
- Novelאלף לבבותDan Tsalka · 1991not translated into EnglishA novel of 1991 in two volumes: fifty years in the lives of immigrants who arrived in 1919 on the Ruslan, from Jaffa to Tel Aviv.Literature
- CinemaCup Finalגמר גביעEran Riklis · 1991A film of 1991: an Israeli soldier held captive by Palestinians in Lebanon, while the Spanish World Cup is being played.Cinema
- CinemaTime for Cherriesעונת הדובדבניםHaim Buzaglo · 1991A film of 1991: a reservist back from Lebanon who has himself filmed while waiting for death, and a war watched as a spectacle.Cinema
- CinemaLife According to Agfaהחיים על פי אגפאAssi Dayan · 1992A 1992 black-and-white film: over the course of one night, a bar in Tel Aviv brings together the figures of the country.Cinema
- NovelDolly Cityדולי סיטיOrly Castel-Bloom · 1992Novel of 1992: a mother's anguish driven to madness, in a dystopian city.Literature
- NovelThe NameהשםMichal Govrin · 1995Novel of 1995: in Jerusalem, a young woman who bears the name of a dead woman turns to God during the seven weeks between Passover and Pentecost.Literature
- NovelLove Lifeחיי אהבהZeruya Shalev · 1997A novel of 1997, told from start to finish by its narrator: an affair that undoes a life, and leads back to that of her parents.Literature
- CinemaKadoshקדושAmos Gitai · 1999A 1999 film shot in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Jerusalem: two sisters faced with decisions made for them.Cinema
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