Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Introduction 1
5. Short Stories
6. Introduction to Nurit Zarchi’s "And She Is Joseph" 17
7. Introduction to Nurit Zarchi’s "Madame Bovary in Neve Tsedek" 24
8. Introduction to Ruth Almog’s "Invisible Mending" 33
9. Introduction to Mira Magen’s "A Piece of Cake for Saul" 50
10. Introduction to Shulamith Gilboa’s "If Nella Could Do It" 58
11. Introduction to Leah Aini’ s "The Fruit of Paradise" 68
12. Rest 76
13. Introduction to Savyon Liebrecht’s "'It’s Greek to You,' She Said to Him" 81
14. Introduction to Nava Semel’s "Hunger" 99
15. Introduction to Yehudit IZatzir’s "Schlaffstunde" 124
16. Introduction to Shulamith Hareven’s "Two Hours on the Road" 148
17. Introduction to Mira Magen’ s "Gerbera Daisies at Half-Price" 163
18. Introduction to Yehudit Hendel’s "Apples in Honey" 182
19. Introduction to Ronit Matalon’s "Photograph" 193
20. Introduction to Selected Short Stories by Orly Castel-Bloom 200
21. A Thousand Shekels a Story 202
22. The Woman Who Went Looking for a Walkie-Talkie 206
23. The Woman Whose Hand Got Stuck in the Mailbox 209
24. A Special Section: Stories Translated from the Russian 212
25. Monologue of a Life Model 217
26. Rough Casting 226
27. Poetry
28. Yon a Volach: In Memoriam 243
29. Hebrew 245
30. I Have a Stage in My Head 248
31. Tefillin 249
32. When You Come Sleep with Me 251
33. The Life You Have 253
34. Bird 254
35. Dahlia Ravikovitch 256
36. Real Love Isn’t What It SeelTIS 258
37. An Unusual Autumn 260
38. Hovering at a Low Altitude 262
39. Blood Heifer 265
40. Hedva Harechavi 267
41. 1 x 2 268
42. And It Is Still That Way 274
43. Already Night, Already Day 276
44. Raquel Chalfi 278
45. Reading the I Ching 279
46. Night Hair 282
47. Maya Bejerano 284
48. I Made a New Memory for You 285
49. States of War 287
50. From The Hymns of Job 289
51. Esther Ettinger 298
52. Excerpts from the Sabbath Dream Book 300
53. Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (I) 302
54. Micrographic Manuscript, Miniature (II) 303
55. The Glass 304
56. Believe Me 306
57. Chava Pinchas-Cohen 308
58. Remembering Our Fathers 309
59. Her, Me, and Yochanan 312
60. My English Teacher 314
61. The Yearning of Karakashian 315
62. The Ineffable Name 317
63. Introduction to Chava Pinchas-Cohen’s "Journey of a Doe 319
64. Hamutal Bar Yosef 326
65. Jaffa, July 1948 327
66. Reflections on a Dove 328
67. In the Library 331
68. An Angel on the Beach 333
69. Agi Mishol 334
70. Estate 335
71. The Sacred Cow of Hardship 337
72. Gravity, Death 339
73. Shopping 340
74. Devorah Amir 342
75. After Fall, 1956 343
76. I Have Longings for My Dead 344
77. What Seeps In 345
78. Thoughts about Sari’s Jump 346
79. The "Nightingale" of Uncle Yair 348
80. One Girl’s Dance 349
81. Liquidation 350
82. In Their House 351
83. Shower 352
84. The Empress of Imagined Fertility 354
85. Nidaa Khoury 355
86. Death Is Your Salvation 356
87. People of Fire 358
88. People of Pomegranates 359
89. People of Figs 360
90. People of Olives 361
91. A Special Section: American Israeli Poets Writing in English 362
92. Shirley Kaufman 364
93. Déj àVu 365
94. Stones 367
95. Security 369
96. Job’s Wife 371
97. The Mount of Olives 372
98. Linda Zisquit 373
99. From Unopened Letters 374
100. After Years of Feasting and No Sacrifice 376
101. A Word before the Last about Loss 377
102. Rachel Tzvia Back 378
103. Notes: From the Wait 380
104. Untitled 382
105. Abu Salim, Healer 384
106. Gaza, Undated 386
107. After Eden 388
108. Karen Alkalay-Gut 389
109. From Between Bombardments: A Journal 390
110. Kitzbuhl Church 393
111. Public Outcry 394
112. Transportation 396