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Conversations with Dvora

An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer

By: Amia Lieblich,Devorah Baron

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Conversations with Dvora

An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer

By: Amia Lieblich,Devorah Baron

The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant writer, widely published while still in her teens. At age twenty-three she immigrated to Palestine, married a prominent Zionist journalist, and joined the literary intelligentsia of the emerging nation. Her writing showed startlingly modernist points of view (a day-old baby girl in "The First Day" and a female Jewish dog in "Liska," for example), and she took on such topics as divorce ("Fradl"), incest ("Grandma Henya"), and domestic violence ("A Quarreling Couple"). But when her beloved brother died in 1923, Baron retired to her apartment. There she spent the last thirty years of her life, in touch with the literary community but rejecting her early stories as "my rags." She never left her residence and spent most of her time in bed, tended by her daughter. Israeli writer and psychologist Amia Lieblich was seventeen when Dvora Baron died; the two women never met. But Lieblich has written this biography as a series of conversations taking place in Dvora's darkened room during the last year of her life. Lieblich's vividly realized portrait elicits Dvora's memories of childhood; the descriptions of traditional women's lives in her writing; a view of her eccentric marriage and odd relationship with her daughter; and her thoughts on work, life, and death. Dvora is a living presence in these conversations; Lieblich approaches her as one of the great creative spirits of Hebrew literature. Having undergone a crisis in her own life, Lieblich seeks out Baron as a source of wisdom and direction. The result is an unusual and moving literary-psychological adventure that merges Dvora Baron's world with that of an Israeli woman today. The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant writer, widely published while still in her teens. At age twenty-three she immigrated to Palestine, married a prominent Zionist journalist, and joined the literary intelligentsia of the emerging nation. Her writing showed startlingly modernist points of view (a day-old baby girl in "The First Day" and a female Jewish dog in "Liska," for example), and she took on such topics as divorce ("Fradl"), incest ("Grandma Henya"), and domestic violence ("A Quarreling Couple"). But when her beloved brother died in 1923, Baron retired to her apartment. There she spent the last thirty years of her life, in touch with the literary community but rejecting her early stories as "my rags." She never left her residence and spent most of her time in bed, tended by her daughter. Israeli writer and psychologist Amia Lieblich was seventeen when Dvora Baron died; the two women never met. But Lieblich has written this biography as a series of conversations taking place in Dvora's darkened room during the last year of her life. Lieblich's vividly realized portrait elicits Dvora's memories of childhood; the descriptions of traditional women's lives in her writing; a view of her eccentric marriage and odd relationship with her daughter; and her thoughts on work, life, and death. Dvora is a living presence in these conversations; Lieblich approaches her as one of the great creative spirits of Hebrew literature. Having undergone a crisis in her own life, Lieblich seeks out Baron as a source of wisdom and direction. The result is an unusual and moving literary-psychological adventure that merges Dvora Baron's world with that of an Israeli woman today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520085418

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Seasons of Captivity

The Inner World of POWs

By: Amia Lieblich

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Seasons of Captivity

The Inner World of POWs

By: Amia Lieblich

[An] engrossing study, told mainly by the subjects themselves... a valuable addition to POW literature and unique for its positive view of wartime captivity." —Publishers Weekly "Lieblich has skillfully integrated oral histories to produce a compelling story." —Library Journal "The minutes of the meetings recorded hereby are an excerpt of the lives of ten men, who had spent all their days and nights together. Each one observed the other in his grief and joy.Each one, according to his ability and sensitivity, saw it as his duty to contribute to the general welfare, to save our boat from sinking....In fact, we managed to keep afloat most of the time, and if we erred here or there, at least we had the best intentions." —From a secret collective diary kept by ten POWs A national bestseller when it first appeared in Israel, Seasons of Captivity is a story of human survival and hope that documents the experience of ten Israeli prisoners of war who shared a single jail cell in Egypt for more than three years. The engrossing chronicle of the prisoners' ordeal is told in their own words—from their capture in 1969, through six months of interrogation, torture, and isolation, to their movement to a common room. A watershed event, their transfer to shared living quarters enabled them to forge a community and an almost utopian social system. They held weekly meetings, kept a common diary, started study classes, and, among other projects, translated The Hobbit into Hebrew. The narrative goes on to describe the re-entry of the POWs into family and social roles upon their release and return to Israel in 1973. An exploration of the personal impact of the experience on the wives of the married prisoners introduces the women's own stories of separation and reunion. Some of them had suddenly found themselves, in effect, single mothers—yet their husbands were alive. Their husbands found stronger, more independent women in place of the traditional ones they had left behind. One of the women remarks, I thought [my husband] had been angry at me, in part unconsciously, for being so strong and competent in his absence...I had managed, well, almost effortlessly. This dramatic and moving account illustrates the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the most dehumanizing circumstances.

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NYU Press

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081475273X

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9780814752739

Narrative Research

Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation

By: Amia Lieblich,Rivka Tuval-Mashiach,Tamar Zilber

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Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation

By: Amia Lieblich,Rivka Tuval-Mashiach,Tamar Zilber

A concise volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication.

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0761910433

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9780761910435

The Narrative Study of Lives

By: Amia Lieblich,Ruthellen Josselson

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By: Amia Lieblich,Ruthellen Josselson

The narrative approach is a relevant and enriching technique for uncovering, describing and interpreting the meaning of experience. This collection explores the challenges of performing narrative work in an academic setting, writing about it in an ethical and revealing fashion, and drawing meaningful conclusions. This stellar collection of scholars examine such topics as: how the larger construct of `personality' can read out of a life story; the development of multicultural identity as a dynamic process; the transition away from delinquent behaviour; the importance of cultural continuity for understanding loneliness in elderly refugees; race relations and how it relates to the meaning of the decade in which the interviewee

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0761903259

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9780761903253

Narratives of Positive Aging

Seaside Stories

By: Amia Lieblich

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Narratives of Positive Aging

Seaside Stories

By: Amia Lieblich

A community of elders who meet daily and spontaneously at the seaside exemplify the idea of positive aging. Through their individual life narratives, Narratives of Positive Aging explores the impact of routine, physical exercise, and social relationships on the well-being of these seniors, and portrays the safe environment fostered by their discourse and wisdom.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019991804X

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Interpreting Experience

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

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Interpreting Experience

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

How does context shape biography? How do language and relationships affect the development of people's work lives? An international group of scholars from diverse disciplines addresses these and other issues in this volume of The Narrative Study of Lives. They explore what it means to take narrative seriously and how an empathic stance in narrative research opens out on the dialogic self. The contributors also consider questions of how participants make meaning out of their experience in the framework of available interpretive horizons. In addition, there are sections that use narrative approaches to develop a deeper understanding of loneliness and the "coming out" process in homosexuality. This volume examines the many ways in which people interpret their experience and explores conceptual avenues to make use of these understandings in the analysis of human life. Those interested in qualitative methods, evaluation, and education research will find Interpreting Experience to be an invaluable contribution.

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0803971079

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9780803971073

Narratives of Positive Aging

Seaside Stories

By: Amia Lieblich

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Seaside Stories

By: Amia Lieblich

In Narratives of Positive Aging, Amia Lieblich presents a qualitative study that explores the life narratives of elderly men and women who engage in practices of "positive aging." They belong to a spontaneous community that assembles daily, early in the morning, on a beach near Tel-Aviv, Israel. At the seaside, the elders practice various outdoor sports, and converse over coffee at the local café. Based on their narratives, procured by individual open-ended interviews, and the author's participant observation, the book explores the impact of routine, physical activity, and social relationships on successful aging. Lieblich additionally presents an analysis of the tension-minimizing discourse adopted at the café and the pleasant bubble-like environment it fosters amongst the community members. Finally, the book debates the adaptive role of narrating one's life story, and its perceived manifestation of wisdom. A combination of complete life stories and extracts of conversations recorded on the beach color every chapter. These texts are complimented and elucidated by a variety of academic claims, theories and findings concerning narratives and aging. This book, based on an Israeli field study, may be viewed both as a local case study as well as a lesson relevant to aging everywhere.

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Oxford University Press

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0190213825

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Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

The Israeli Case

By: Amia Lieblich

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Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

The Israeli Case

By: Amia Lieblich

This is a developmental study of men in mandatory military service based on indepth interviews of young soldiers who had recently completed their service in Israel. The book deals with the central issues of transition to adulthood and the psychological effects of military service in the context of the previous research and theory concerning these subjects.

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State University of New York Press

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1438410875

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Conversations with Dvora

An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer

By: Amia Lieblich,Devorah Baron

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An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer

By: Amia Lieblich,Devorah Baron

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Univ of California Press

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Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

The Israeli Case

By: Amia Lieblich

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The Israeli Case

By: Amia Lieblich

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SUNY Press

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0791401472

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The Narrative Study of Lives

Volume 5

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

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The Narrative Study of Lives

Volume 5

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

The narrative approach is a relevant and enriching technique for uncovering, describing, and interpreting the meaning of experience. This collection explores the challenges of performing narrative work in an academic setting, writing about it in an ethical and revealing fashion, and drawing meaningful conclusions. This stellar collection of scholars examine such topics as how the larger construct of "personality" can be read out of life story; life narratives of reform, i.e., the transition away from delinquent behavior; the importance of cultural continuity for understanding loneliness in elderly refugees; race relations and how it relates to the meaning of the decade in which the interviewees came of age; the experience and meaning of resilience among survivors of childhood sexual abuse; and the use of narrative work as an additional approach within a larger quantitative research project. Amia Lieblich and Ruthellen Josselson provide insight into how the narrative appraoch enriches the study of the rare, the unusual, the common, and the prevalent, always searching for meaning in peopleÆs lives.

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SAGE Publications

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1452249865

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Seasons of Captivity

The Inner World of Pow's

By: Amia Lieblich

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The Inner World of Pow's

By: Amia Lieblich

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NYU Press

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0814750958

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Narrative Research

Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation

By: Amia Lieblich,Rivka Tuval-Mashiach,Tamar Zilber

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Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation

By: Amia Lieblich,Rivka Tuval-Mashiach,Tamar Zilber

A concise volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication.

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Interpreting Experience

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

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By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

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Making Meaning of Narratives

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

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Making Meaning of Narratives

By: Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich

Contributors from five countries, in fields including criminology, literature studies, nursing, psychology, and sociology, explore issues such as how to make meaning of narrative interviews by considering the problem of interpreting what is not said, how cultural meanings about gender are transmitted across generations, and uses of the transformati.

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0761903275

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Exploring Identity and Gender

The Narrative Study of Lives

By: Amia Lieblich,Ruthellen Josselson

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Exploring Identity and Gender

The Narrative Study of Lives

By: Amia Lieblich,Ruthellen Josselson

How does a narrative serve as a way to uncover and construct a person's identity? How do life and life-story influence each other? Addressing these and other issues related to the place of narratives in understanding human lives, this volume focuses on identity and gender. Chapters explore such issues as: how women construct the lives of other women in biographical work; how individuals conduct their life episodes in patterns similar to the plots of stories; how the women's movement influenced three women's adult lives; and how girls' sense of themselves change as they move into adolescence.

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0803955693

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Book's by Amia Lieblich

Conversations with Dvora

Conversations with Dvora

Seasons of Captivity

Seasons of Captivity

Narrative Research

Narrative Research

The Narrative Study of Lives

The Narrative Study of Lives

Narratives of Positive Aging

Narratives of Positive Aging

Interpreting Experience

Interpreting Experience

Narratives of Positive Aging

Narratives of Positive Aging

Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

Conversations with Dvora

Conversations with Dvora

Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

Transition to Adulthood During Military Service

The Narrative Study of Lives

The Narrative Study of Lives

Seasons of Captivity

Seasons of Captivity

Narrative Research

Narrative Research

Interpreting Experience

Interpreting Experience

Making Meaning of Narratives

Making Meaning of Narratives

Exploring Identity and Gender

Exploring Identity and Gender

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