This book is the first collection of essays in English on A.B. Yehoshua, one of Israel's most acclaimed novelists and thinkers, illuminating the intertwined themes of citizenship, homeland, and responsibility across his extraordinary oeuvre of novels, short fiction, drama, and polemics.

When contemplating A.B. Yehoshua's (1936-2022) immensely popular literary corpus of long and short fiction, as well as his provocative polemics, it is easy to become absorbed in the absurd contentions that he dramatizes and the vivid sprawl of his spatial and temporal settings, to the extent that one might overlook the underlying dynamics that energizes it all. In order to tackle the diverse range of his fiction and showcase how his works are interrelated through their recurrent motifs, variations, and steadfast concern for the concept of national and collective responsibility, this volume features writing from a range of scholars to explore the overlap and difference of his works.

This edited collection has a central aim of analyzing Yehoshua's moral and aesthetic imagination by exploring gaps between East and West, Israel and the Diaspora, Jews and others, or secular and religious. The contributors explore Yehoshua's novels and his capacious imagination which demanded, both from and toward the individual and the collective, a fuller recognition of the responsibilities inherent in Jewish identity across history and especially in the homeland.

Yael Halevi-Wise is Associate Professor of English at McGill University, USA.

Ranen Omer-Sherman is Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at University of Louisville, USA.