Introduction : Amos Oz's arduous truths and ambivalences / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Reflections on in the land of Israel / David Grossman -- Hannah Gonen . . . and me : a personal essay / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The history of a long conversation / Nurith Gertz -- Homeless between two homes / Avraham Balaban -- My Michael, May 1967 / Nissim Calderon -- Maternal illness and the israeli body politic at war / Nitza Ben-Dov -- The little plot and the big plot in Oz's early fiction / Oded Nir -- Oz's literary genealogies : salvage poetics in A tale of love and darkness / Sheila E. Jelen -- Cat people : coming of age in Mr. Levi and Panther in the basement / Adam Rovner -- Tilling the soil of national ideology : Oz and the Hebrew environmental imagination / Eric Zakim -- On eternity : homelessness and the meaning of homeland / Liam Hoare -- The dialogic encounter between new and old : the biblical intertext in Oz's fiction / Nehama Aschkenasy -- Oz's contentious journey : in the land of Israel / Adia Mendelson-Maoz -- Oz against himself : between political romanticism and social realism in Black box / Joshua Leifer -- "Like Belfast, Rhodesia, or South Africa" : Oz and the ideologies of Oslo / Moriel Rothman-Zecher -- And they lived separately ever after : the two state solution as literary ending / Vered Karti Shemtov -- Of howling jackals and village scenes : a lament / Yaron Peleg -- Exultation, disillusionment and late inspiration : Oz's once and future kibbutz / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- From tragedy to betrayal : judas and the subversive politics of Oz's last act / Sam Sussman
