NA T I O N A L ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS OF HEBREW HEBREW HIGHER EDUCATION ____________________________ A Journal for Methodology and Pedagogy in the University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature ____________________________ VOLUME 15 (2013) ___________________________________ Published at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew in Institutions of Higher Learning ___________________________________ HEBREW HIGHER EDUCATION Issued by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Office located at the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, 1346 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. ISSN 1058-3351 EDITOR ADINA OFEK Binghamton University BOOK REVIEW EDITOR NANCY EZER University of California—Los Angeles MANAGING EDITOR RICK PAINTER iMPACT School of Leadership EDITORIAL BOARD Edna Amir Coffin Nancy Ezer University of Michigan University of California— Los Angeles David Marcus Nitza Krohn Jewish Theological Seminary Jewish Theological Seminary of America Shmuel Bolozky Naomi Sokoloff University of Massachusetts University of Washington HEBREW HIGHER EDUCATION VOLUME 15 (2013) EDITORS’ NOTES 5 ADINA OFEK 7–13 EDNA AMIR COFFIN Hebrew Higher Education: A Retrospective View and Visions for the Future ARTICLES Hebrew Literature 15–26 ADINA ABADI Textlinguistic Tools for Deciphering the Télédialogue Mr. Mani by A. B. Yehoshua 27–42 EDNA AMIR COFFIN צלילי השקט עיונים בנושא השתיקה Sounds of Silence 43–71 DORIT LEMBERGER כינון-מחדש של הסובייקט בספרו של עמיחי 'פתוח-סגור-פתוח' Reconstitution of the Subject in Amichai “Open Closed Open” 73–88 MALKAH SHAKED המצב הקיומי של האשה בשירי משוררות אחדות The Existential Condition of the Woman as Reflected in Women’s Poetry 89–102 NAOMI SOKOLOFF Teaching the Graphic Novel: Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds Hebrew Language 103–108 SHMUEL BOLOZKY על החטפים כגורם בהוראת המשקלים The Role of Hatafim in Teaching the Mishkalim HHE 15 (2013) 2 Table of Contents 109–123 NOGA ILANI Contextual Conditionings for Extraposition in Modern Hebrew (Type of Discourse) 125–147 GILA SHILO A Comparison between the Syntax of the Sentence and the Syntax of the Paragraph: Several Issues (מן הסדנה) From the Workshop 149–155 NILI ADLER המשפחה הישראלית בראי התיאטרון: המחזה "הבדלה" כמודל להוראת תרבות ושפה The Israeli Family as Reflected in the Theatre 157–161 RONIT ENGEL השימוש בספרי לימוד ישראליים להוראת עברית באוניברסיטאות בצפון אמריקה Using Israeli Textbooks to Teach Hebrew in Universities in North America 163–169 GIORE ETZION כתיבה, קריאה, ודיון ברמה השלישית Writing, Reading, and Discussion on the Third Level 171–181 MICHAL FRAM COHEN Separation along Gender Lines: The Education of Sarah Feiga and Joshua Ber Meinkin 183–190 NAAMA HAREL " הֲיֵלְכוּ שְׁנַיִם, ַ י ְ ח ָ דּ ו, ִ בּ ְ ל ִ תּ י, ִ א ם-נוֹעָדוּ" Integrating Biblical and Modern Hebrew in Class 191–202 EDNA LAUDEN גולת הכותרת וגלגוליה Translating Film Titles into Hebrew BOOK REVIEWS 203–210 MARC S. BERNSTEIN חיי היומיום בישראל: הבנת הנשמע והנצפה By Ruth Ben-Yehudah Adler and Benjamin Hari. HHE 15 (2013) 3 Table of Contents 211–213 FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized. By Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes. 215–222 NITZA KROHN Easing into Modern Hebrew Grammar: A User-friendly Reference and Exercise Book. By Gila Freedman Cohen and Carmia Shoval. 223–226 JONATHAN PARADISE Reading Academic Hebrew. By Nitza Krohn. 227–231 ORA (RODRIGUE) SCHWARZWALD Literacy and Language (no. 4). Edited by Rachel Schiff. INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS EDITOR’S NOTE We are pleased to announce the publication of volume 15 of Hebrew Higher Education. This is the first time that HHE has been published in consecutive years. Volume 15 is a mile stone, and I have asked our long time author and supporter Edna A mi r -Coffin to write a short history of the evolvement of the journal. With assistance from the founder and first editor Rina Donchin, we have a nice description of the road we have traveled, re- membering the wonderful people who wrote and supported the journal. This volume is the second one in electronic format, and as you will see, we moved up a notch by making it possible for the readers to hook up with some actual scenes from a play through links. I hope that more authors will take advantage of the technological options the electronic format affords us. We also have a rich presentation of reviews of useful and interesting books in the field. As you will see, many articles represent expanded proceedings of papers presented at the last conference, which makes it possible for readers who were not present to enjoy them. I encourage all our members to contribute and share their work. Many thanks to Rick Painter and Jared Henson for their continuing devotion and technical support in the publication of Hebrew Higher Education. Thank you to all our careful readers who helped critique and improve the papers. Adina Ofek Editor HEBREW HIGHER EDUCATION: A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE Edna Amir Coffin University of Michigan Hebrew Higher Education, as its name indicates, is the National Association of Professors of Hebrew journal dedicated to methodology and pedagogy for teaching Hebrew language and literature at higher education Kol ha mo r i m) in the) ”קול המורים“ institutions. It was first published as spring of 1986, and its name was changed to the Bulletin of Hebrew Higher Education in the fall of 1986 and now continues to be published under the name Hebrew Higher Education. The publication followed the establishment of the Modern Hebrew subdivision of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH). It became one of three publications of NAPH—the other two being the journal Hebrew Studies and the annual newsletter Iggeret, each of the three with a different focus and orientation. To give a retrospective of Hebrew Higher Education in its various evo- lutionary stages, one needs to go back to the history of NAPH. The organi- zation was founded in 1950 by Abraham Katsh (New York University and Dropsie) under the auspices of the Society for Biblical Literature. Katsh’s main goal was to create a group of classical Hebrew instructors, who would share their experiences and search for more effective ways of teaching Hebrew in seminaries and university programs, such as Biblical Studies, Ancient and Classical Studies, as well as Near Eastern Studies. Early active m e mb e r s of NAPH were several like-minded academics, including David Rudavsky, Werner Weinberg, Menahem Mansoor, J. J. Owens, Carl Ehle, Jacob Kabakoff, Page Kelley, Albert Bilgray, Eisig Silberschlag, Keith Schoville, J. Kennet Eakins, J. Gordon Harris, and others. In 1954 the first issue of NAPH’s Hebrew Abstracts was published; it was edited by Abraham Katsh. The object of Hebrew Abstracts was “to present brief de- scriptions of articles, books and periodicals published in Hebrew or in other languages about the Hebrew language, literature, philology, exegesis, bibli- ography and methodology.” As can be seen, its objective was not limited to pedagogical matters, but was meant for its readers’ enrichment in a variety of fields related to the study of Hebrew. To this day, Hebrew Higher Education, the journal of methodology and pedagogical strategies, continues in this spirit, encompassing various fields of interest, including linguistics, literary criticism, communications media, cultural studies, and more. HHE 15 (2013) 8 Coffin: Hebrew Higher Education In 1975, Hebrew Abstracts’ name was modified during the annual meet- ing of NAPH to Hebrew Studies: A Journal Devoted to the Hebrew Language, the Bible and Related Areas of Scholarship. The journal appeared in 1976 under its new name, and its editor Israel T. Naamani of the University of Louisville managed the journal for several years. When the first issue was published, it also happened to be the bicentennial year, and in its honor a translation by Eisig Silberschlag of the Declaration of Independence into Hebrew was included. Hebrew Studies continues to be published and covers a broad array of fields, and as described on the NAPH home page is now “an internationally recognized scholarly journal devoted to studies of Hebrew language and literature of all periods.” While for many years it was published in both English and Hebrew, it is now published exclusively in English. In the late seventies, a small group of mid-western professors and teach- ers of Modern Hebrew in university settings, having met in several work- shops in Jerusalem, realized that there was a need to form a professional organization which would address their specific needs and aspirations. One of the most important issues was upgrading the standards of the profession— while some instructors had academic credentials and research orientation in relevant fields, others were recruited from the native speaking community, with no previous experience in a university setting. As we struggled to find optimal modes of teaching Hebrew to native speakers of English, it was ob- viously useful to share our experiences. Among the group of founders were Rina Donchin of the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Edna Grad of Northwestern University in Chicago, Gilead Morahg of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Edna Amir Coffin of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, joined by an “easterner,” Nava Scharf of Cornell University. They gathered in Chicago in 1980 to discuss the issues that confronted them and ways to deal with them. The first decision was to hold annual con- ferences that would address the needs of the expanding Modern Hebrew programs. Another decision was to try and affiliate with an existing aca- demic association that could provide organizational and administrative sup- port. It was suggested that the group join NAPH, which at the time was moving its office to the University of Wisconsin. Gilead Morahg got the support of faculty members of the department of Hebrew and Ancient Studies, Keith Schoville and Menachem Mansoor of Wisconsin, both mem- bers of NAPH, to back the idea, and thus the fledgling, still nameless organization, became part of NAPH.