User:Hoziron

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I don't have a lot of time to write for Wikipedia, but when I do, here is what interests me:

I intended my username as a nonsense word. Later I was amused to learn that it's similar to the Hebrew word for "piggy" (haziron, חזירון), not to mention the Turkish word for June (Haziran).

I am a learner of the Hebrew language. My exercise on Wikipedia is to translate the Hebrew pages about various writers of modern Hebrew prose, or Israeli literature. From this exercise I have learned most of what I know about the subject. It's a way for my fellow Hebrew students and me to learn more about it. My translations can be quite linear. I appreciate others' efforts to improve the selection of facts and smooth the language.

If I'm not producing enough web pages in English about authors of modern Hebrew fiction fast enough to meet your reading needs, try the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.

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[edit] Working list of prominent Hebrew language authors

For a selection of prominent authors, please refer to Israeli literature. If that evolves into prose more appropriate for an encyclopedia, a list form will still be in the revision as of 10:32, 3 Jan 2005.

Another interesting list is at /Featured articles in Hebrew.

The following notes may also be useful.

Many of the authors mentioned in Israeli literature have main entries in Hebrew. Fewer have entries in English. However, all of the author names (as spelled in English), except Barak (Bar Zohar), are linked in the English-language list of Hebrew language authors. I took the trouble of checking all of the spellings in Hebrew and English to make sure they match existing pages or referring pages.

For some prominent Israeli authors, even the Hebrew-language Wikipedia has stubs, or only links, or no reference at all. For some of those I have used Google to verify the Hebrew spelling of the name.

[edit] Next batch

For reasons of convenience and importance, it seems most worthwhile to translate articles about the following authors from the Hebrew-language Wikipedia: Shulamith Hareven (he:שולמית הראבן), Shulamit Lapid (he:שולמית לפיד), and Amnon Dankner (he:אמנון דנקנר). Although there's no Hebrew-language article about Orly Castel-Bloom (he:אורלי קסטל בלום), I'd like to put together an English-language article.

Beyond those, here are the remaining authors who are mentioned in "Israeli literature" with Hebrew spelling and who have articles in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia.

[edit] Having links but not pages in Hebrew

These are generally in he:Category:Hebrew writers.

[edit] Having no links but spelling verified in Hebrew

Spelling can be verified by searching guesses in Google or in the Mt. Scopus Library catalog.

[edit] Brag list

Wrote articles: A. B. Yehoshua, Rita Kleinstein, Romanization of Hebrew, String band, Society of Biblical Literature, Hebrew literature

Expanded and de-stubbed: Encyclopaedia Judaica

Wrote section, based on article available online by Gideon Toury: List of translators: Hebrew translators

Translated new (or wholly replaced) articles from the Hebrew Wikipedia: Hanoch Levin, Avraham Shlonsky, Shaul Tchernichovsky, David Grossman, Batya Gur, Irit Linur, Etgar Keret, Yitzhak Salkinsohn, Yehuda Alharizi, Meir Shalev, Ram Oren, Dan Tsalka, Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, S. Yizhar, Herzliya Hebrew High School, Aharon Megged, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Hanoch Bartov, Moshe Shamir, Benjamin Tammuz, Nurit Zarchi, Haim Be`er, Sami Michael, Shulamith Hareven, Amnon Shamosh

Imported article from the Jewish Encyclopedia: Louis Lewandowski

Imported article from Israel Abrahams book Chapters on Hebrew Literature: Ethical will

Substantially lengthened articles by translating from Hebrew Wikipedia or using the Internet Movie Database and Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs articles: Israeli literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Amos Oz, Haim Gouri, Yosef Haim Brenner

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[edit] Finding needed articles

I looked for ways to identify needed articles in other Wikipedia editions (mainly Hebrew). Among other things, I found en:Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Core_topics and simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have. Then I made a partial comparison of those two:

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