Amos Oz's Two Pens

This volume revisits Amoz Oz's the two pens parable. It brings together scholars from various disciplines who assess Oz's dual role in Israeli culture and society as an immensely popular novelist and a leading public intellectual. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Israeli History.

Arie M. Dubnov is Associate Professor of History and the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at the George Washington University, USA. His publications include the intellectual biography Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012), and two edited volumes, Zionism - A View from the Outside (2010 [in Hebrew]) and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-century Territorial Separatism (2019, co-edited with Laura Robson).

Introduction: Amos Oz's two pens 1. Amos Oz and the politics of identity: A reassessment 2. The greatness of smallness: Amos Oz, Sherwood Anderson, and the American presence in Hebrew Literature. 3. The American Oz: Notes on translation and reception 4. Amos Oz: A humanist in the darkness 5. "Now we shall reveal a little secret" first person plural and lyrical fluidity in the works of Amos Oz 6. "Like a cow that gave birth to a seagull": Amos Oz, Yoel Hoffmann and the birth of The Same Sea 7. Memory and space in the autobiographical writings of Amos Oz and Ronit Matalon 8. Amos Oz: The lighthouse 9. Love, compassion, and longing Afterword Reading Amos Oz Today