Resources and Articles by Elazar Larry Freifeld
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Freifeld,
Elazar Larry
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Active for 30 years on the New York and Tel Aviv literary scenes, E.L. Freifeld’s poems and stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including: An Anthology Of Concrete Poetry, Fordham University Press, the Jerusalem Post, Ma’ariv, Tel Aviv Review, and Ariel.
Since first publishing in 1964, Freifeld has had 12 books published, including A Jew in the House of Harvard, Poet’s Guide to the Holy Land and The World According to Animals. A Jew in the House of Harvard was awarded first prize by the Israel Federation of Writers for the year 1987. It was the first time this prize was awarded in Israel for a book in English.
Translated into six languages, his readings and seminars include such venues as The New School for Social Research, The Whitney Museum School of American Art, WBAI Radio, WNET Channel 13, a CBS Video produced by Joan Snyder at The School of Visual Arts, and the American Embassy in Tel Aviv.
During the Scud War, continuing a career begun in the U.S., he wrote a weekly column for The Jerusalem Post and is now a contributing editor of ARC magazine, The Journal of the Israel Association of Writers in English.
Additional grants and awards have been received by The Cassandra Foundation, The Vermont Council on the Arts, The Israel Ministry of Education and Culture, and The Israeli Office of Immigrant Artists.
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Girl on the Train and Other Stories:
The Enterprise
Until God decides one day to pay his debt to humanity and bring down food again from heaven, if not a little piece of bread from the mouth of hell, most folks must survive and make-do with the little they have.
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Literature
Cultural Diversity and The American Dream:
Aliyah
When I first came to Israel, I admit, I came with an American NYC cum hippie/bohemian head. I was not fleeing persecution, only rising from one level to another. More like jumping between two levels at the same level, like when I was a kid at summer camp crossing a stream, dancing from one rock to another.
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Literary Criticism:
The Jew of Malta, Revisited
A little corruption is good for the soul, and Christopher Marlowe’s 'The
Jew of Malta' is not a saint, not by a longshot! Purity is reserved for virgins
and prophets; the one soon to be corrupted, the other, it would appear, soon to
be reformed. Contrary to Shakespeare's Shylock, in 'The Jew of Venice',
Barabas, the anti-hero of this remarkable play written in 1588, is neither a
devil nor a prophet in need of redemption.
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Anti-Semitism
Artistic Expressions
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Literature
Memoirs of a Bi-Patriot:
From Vermont to the Red Sea
Elazar Larry Freifeld looks at the aliyah process from a personal perspective - and what we find is an emotional, and often amusing roller-coaster ride, following the trials and tribulations of his family's immigration and absorption into Israel.
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Zionism
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Zionism and the Diaspora
Memoirs of a Bi-Patriot:
What time is it?
Elazar Larry Freifeld looks at the aliyah process from a personal perspective - and what we find is an emotional, and often amusing roller-coaster ride, following the trials and tribulations of his family's immigration and absorption into Israel.
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Life in Israel
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