Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel and the editor of Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination.
“Yael Halevi-Wise’s book on A. B. Yehoshua is a useful, intelligent introduction to the fiction of arguably the most talented Israeli novelist.” —Dan Miron,author of From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking “The work of A. B. Yehoshua—one of Israel's most important writers since the 1960s—has long merited a full, book-length study in English. Yael Halevi-Wise's book has the virtue of broad scope, including commentary on a range of works from Yehoshua’s earliest writing up to his latest novel, from 2018. It offers an overview of his multilayered narrative techniques as well as chapters on a variety of themes and signature moves in his oeuvre.” —Naomi Sokoloff,coeditor of What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans) “For anyone looking to better understand the artistry of Yehoshua’s fiction or to better decipher his novels’ messages, this book is indispensable.” —Philip Hollander Sephardic Horizons