ISRAEL

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>ISRAEL</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="about_jewish_voices.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About JEWISH VOICES: 200 Years of Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">About </B></U></A><A HREF="about_jewish_voices.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About JEWISH VOICES: 200 Years of Poetry"><U><B>JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Daniel A. Harris, Ph.D."><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">About DANIEL A. HARRIS, Ph.D.</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teacher Training for Teenagers"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Teacher Training for Teenagers</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Praise for JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">References</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Engagements 20012002"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Engagements</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Israel: Our Other Home </B></I></div> <bR> <div>     The topics below explore Palestine / Israel---the place of imaginative ingathering for Jewish<B> </B>creativity even when (as in the 19th century) the writers have never seen the land.  </div> <div>     </div> <div>      Proto-Zionist, much of it by women, is fiercely concerned with populating (by new <I><B>midrash) </B></I>a territory nearly empty of Jews.  </div> <div>     </div> <div>     20th century writings, linking the <I><B>Shoah</B></I> and Statehood, reveal new tensions: the Jew abroad vs. the Jew in Israel.  The image of King David, the "monarch-minstrel," helps bridge the gaps.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMAGINING PALESTINE AND ISRAEL: Poems by"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a730077011800000000.gif" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Imagining Palestine and Israel:  Poems by British and American Poets, 1830-1998 </B></U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#990033" FACE="Arial" ><B>  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REWRITING HEBREW CHARACTERS: Poetic Midr"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a730077011800000000.gif" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Rewriting Hebrew Characters: Poetic </B></U></A><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REWRITING HEBREW CHARACTERS: Poetic Midr"><U><B>Midrash</B></U></A><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REWRITING HEBREW CHARACTERS: Poetic Midr"><U><B> by Women and Men</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="KING DAVID AND THE IDEA OF JEWISH POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a730077011800000000.gif" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">King David and the Idea of Jewish Poetry</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id101.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISH WOMEN POETS:Imagining Israel, 183"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a730077011800000000.gif" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jewish Women Poets: Imagining Israel, 1830-1998</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THROUGH THE EYES OF MUSLIMS AND JEWS: th"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a730077011800000000.gif" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Through the Eyes of Jews: the Muslim and Arab World</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>