Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story

by Reuven Snir

In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story, Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergence of the art of the Arabic short story among the Arabized Jews during the 1920s, especially in Iraq and Egypt, its development in the next two decades, until the emigration to Israel after 1948, and the efforts to continue the literary writing in Israeli society, the shift to Hebrew, and its current demise. The stories discussed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004390677
• ISBN13: 9789004390676
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"