SOURCE: "Images of Love and War in Contemporary Israeli Fiction: A Feminist Re-vision," in Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation, Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, Susan Merrill Squier, eds., The University of North Carolina Press, 1989, pp. 268-82.

In the following essay, Fuchs observes the identification of women with destruction in Israeli fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.

In an essay on the new Israeli story, Baruch Kurzweil argues that since the early 1960s, Israeli fiction has demonstrated an increasing obsession with the subject of Eros. He refers to Eros not in its Freudian sense of the life instinct but in the sense of "the temptations of woman," and as such he uses it as a term of opprobrium: "But this special conspicuousness of Eros, which is so characteristic of so many Israeli stories, testifies to the lack of a real goal in life. This...