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1. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisphus and Other Essays, trans. Justin O’Brien (New York: Vintage, 1955), pp. 3-10.
2. Ory Bernstein, Safek Haim (Jerusalem: Keter, 2002), p. 146.
3. For a more detailed analysis of Jews and yordim in America, see Gershon Shaked, No Other Place: Essays on Literature and Society, 2nd ed. (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 1998), pp. 138-184 [Hebrew], particularly the chapter titled “Alexandria (On Jews and Judaism in America).”
4. See Nurit Gertz, “The Place of Parody in the Change of Generations,” Siman Kriya 12-13 (February 1981), pp. 272-273 [Hebrew].
5. Yoram Kaniuk, The Last Jew, trans. Barbara Harshav (New York: Grove, 2006), pp. 84-85.
6. See Keinan’s column “Dani (In Memoriam)”: “From the bloom of youth, Dani was cheerful, social and a collectivist…. When he entered first grade he still loved his fellows. Every recess he would be seated with them and they would all sing together: ‘Comrades, comrades, what would we do without work?’
In fourth grade he joined the Youth Movement, where he served for ten years. There, he received a basic collectivist education and learned to do everything with everybody together: sing, dance, take nature walks, think, talk, write, etc. He even became an expert at writing collectivist poems, which did not excessively bring out the petty selfishness of individuals, but instead pointed to social processes.
When everyone joined the struggle, he joined the struggle. When everyone joined the ‘Aliya Bet’ organization, he joined the ‘Aliya Bet’ organization.
After leaving the kibbutz (following a social crisis), he would meet up with his friends every evening and ask: Guys, what are our plans for today? Guys, what are our plans for tomorrow? Guys, how is everyone? In general, wherever his fellows might be, he would not be absent.
Once a tragedy occurred: the whole group went out of town for the wedding of one of the guys, and Dani remained alone. He spent the entire night wandering about the streets without meeting anyone. This caused him to enter a state of emotional depression. For this reason he took his own life, and to this day no one can understand how he could have done this, on his own.” Amos Keinan, With Whips and Scorpions (Tel Aviv: Israel Publishing, 1952),
p. 197 [Hebrew].
p. 197 [Hebrew].
7. S. Yizhar, Days of Tziklag (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1958), pp. 793-794 [Hebrew].
8. Haim Gouri, The Interrogation: The Story of Reuel (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1980), pp. 23-24 [Hebrew].
9. See Baruch Kurtzweil, “The Essence and the Sources of the ‘Young Hebrews’ Movement (‘Canaanites’),” Our New Literature: Continuation or Revolution? (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: Schocken, 1959), pp. 270-300 [Hebrew].
10. Chaim Nachman Bialik, Selected Poems: Bilingual Edition, trans. Ruth Nevo (Tel Aviv: Dvir & The Jerusalem Post, 1981), p. 115.
11. Cynthia Ozick, “Toward a New Yiddish,” Art and Ardor (New York: Knopf, 1983), pp. 154-177.
12. See Ozick, “Toward a New Yiddish,” p. 174.
13. Carl G. Jung, “The Development of Personality,” in Collected Works of C.G. Jung vol. 17 (Princeton. N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981).
14. See Haim Hazaz, “Darebkin,” in Seething Stones (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1970), pp. 183-184 [Hebrew].
