Rachel Leket-Mor, ASU Libraries Jewish Studies Bibliographer, joins Fred and co-host Mimmo Bonanni for a fascinating discussion on the history and impact of Israeli pulp fiction. Rachel provides an overview of the 300 pulp books available from the ASU Libraries Archives and Special collections and what this unique collection of westerns, sci-fi, detective, World War II, and adventure stories reveal about Israeli culture during the 1950s and 1960s.
The ISRAPULP Collection at ASU Libraries, the only repository of its kind outside of Israel, is now open for scholars, offering hundreds of titles from the 1930s and on. For more information visit the links below and visit the pulp collection at ASU Libraries Archives and Special Collections.
Ben-Ari, Nitsa. 2006. Suppression of the erotic in modern hebrew literature. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. Ben-Ari, Nitsa. 2008. Popular mass production in the periphery: Socio-political tendencies in subversive translation. In Beyond descriptive translation studies: Investigations in homage to gideon toury., eds. Gideon Toury, Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger and Daniel Simeoni, 1-18. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. Eshed, Eli. 2002. Mi-tarzan ve-`ad zbeng: Ha-sipur shel ha-sifrut ha-popularit ha-`Ivrit [From Tarzan to Zbeng: the story of Israeli pop fiction]. Tel Aviv: Bavel. [Hebrew] Shavit, Zohar and Yaacov. 1974. “On the Development of the Hebrew Crime Story during the 1930’s in Palestine”. Ha-Sifrut, 18-19: 30-73. [Hebrew]