Presented by Ian Trewin and compiled by ANAT KINBERO
' We are expected to be prophets, so an Israeli writer who has no opinions on politics is " Hardly a writer " ... ' (AMOS oz) ' What I want of our literature when it's translated is not to make one clear image of Israel - 1 think we should be happy that it does give the image of a country which is fighting, believing and creating.' (MOSHE SHAMIR ) 'The world of Jews today, outside Israel, is not my world ... my writing is Israel' and I am true to what has been accumulated here in the last 100 years of Jewish existence in Palestine and in Israel ...' (ehud ben EZER) An investigation into the contemporary literary scene in Israel, with the voices Of sauih IL kasim, YEHUDA AMICHAI. EHUD BEN EZER, TET CARMI, RUTH FAIN-LIGHT, AMOS OZ, GILBERT PHELPS, DALIA RAVIKOVITCH , TONY RUDOLF. MOSHE SHAMIR , ALAN SILLITOE , A. B. YEHOS hua and S. yizhar.
Readers EVA haddon, NEVille JASON, GABRIEL WOOLF Producer
BERNARD KRICHEFSKI