•    Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as an international literary figure whose poetry has been translated into more than thirty languages. For The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, published in 1996, translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell selected Amichai's most famous poems from earlier volumes and included forty new poems from his recent work.

•   Boat of Stone is Maureen Earl's 1993 novel about Hanna Sommerfeld, a seventy-six-year-old grandmother who lives with her son's family in Haifa, Israel. Part of her memories are based on a factual episode during World War II in which 1,580 German Jewish refugees were detained in a British penal colony on the island of Mauritius, off Africa's east coast, after their deportation from Palestine in 1940.

•    Shulamith Hareven is considered one of Yehudit Hendel's contemporaries. In her 1992 collection Twilight and Other...