The First Day and Other Stories

Dvora Baron (1887-1956) was the first modern Hebrew writer. She emigrated from Lithuania to Palestine in 1910. In spirit and literary power she is a sister of writers in an extraordinary arc of Jewish tradition--Isaac Singer, I. Babel, Franz Kafka, Cynthia Ozick, Nathan Englander.

Naomi Seidman is Associate Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (California, 1997). Chana Kronfeld is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics (California, 1995) received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association.