Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735-1950

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Poetry
Chapter 1: Pathfinders and Explorers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hebrew Poetry in Babylon
Chapter 2: Four Poets of Babylonian Origin
Chapter 3: The Twentieth Century Poets in Babylon
Part 2: Folktales, Reportage, Epistles, Research of Literature, and a Story
Chapter 4: The Folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim
Chapter 5: Rabbi Shelomo Bekhor Hutsin (Rashbah): The Words of an Enlightened Jew
Chapter 6: An Epistle as a Literary Work: Rabbi Ya’acov Hayyim’s Letter to Farha Sason
Chapter 7: Shaul Abdullah Yosef: A Scholar of Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Chapter 8: Rabbi Saliman Mani: Hebron, Gaza, and the Demons
Part 3: Hebrew Periodicals in Babylon
Chapter 9: Ha-Dover: The First Hebrew Journal in Babylon
Chapter 10: Yeshurun: “The Newspaper is the Heart of the People”
Chapter 11: Shemesh: An Anthology of Poems and Compositions from the Students of Shammash School
Chapter 12: Derekh He-Haluts: The Journal of the Movement Counselors
Epilogue
Questions
Index of Authors
Bibliography
Images