-- 1. VARIETIES of JEWISH EXPERIENCE: -- Jewish dreams and nightmares -- Sentimentalizing the Jews -- The apocalyptic temper -- Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish imagination -- Hebrew literature and the paradox of survival -- 2. FOUR WRITERS: Saul Bellow: a dissent from modernism -- Bernard Malamud: Jewishness as a metaphor -- S.Y. Agnon: the alphabet of holiness -- Elie Wiesel: between hangman and victim -- 3. The ISRAELI SCENE: -- Confronting the Holocaust -- The Israeli novel: -- "The two generations" (1962) ; -- "Language and realism" (1966) -- 'The days of Ziklag' - in search of a cultural past -- The kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky -- Poetry in Israel.
