Assaf Inbari ( he, אסף ענברי) (born March 9, 1968) is an Israeli

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. He is the Asper Chair in Zionist Studies at Shalem College in Jerusalem and teaches at Kinneret College and .

Biography

Assaf Inbari was born and raised on

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, the oldest of three children, and lived there until the age of 20. He studied Hebrew literature and comparative literature at the

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. In 2008 he completed his Ph.D. on the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik at Bar-Ilan University.Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
''New Books from Israel: Fall 2009''
, p. 19 (retrieved 17 November 2012). In 2005 he married Naomi. They have a son and a daughter. He lives on Kibbutz Degania B.

Literary career

In 2009 he published his first novel ''

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'' ( he, הביתה). It relates the history of

over three generations, from its founding in the Jordan Valley in the early 1930s by members of the

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, through its growth and development, to its present form, beset by

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. The novel was awarded the 2010 Israel Book Publishers Association's Platinum Prize and was on the shortlist of finalists for the

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. In 2020 Inbari was awarded the Agnon Prize for the Art of Prose.הסופר אסף ענברי זכה בפרס עגנון
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Published works

Fiction

* ''

'' ( he, הביתה) (Yedioth Ahronoth/Hemed Books, 2009) ebrew * ''The Tank'' ( he, הטנק) (Yedioth Ahronoth/Hemed Books, 2018) ebrew * ''The Red Book'' ( he, הספר האדום) (Yedioth Ahronoth/Hemed Books, 2022) ebrew

Essays

"The Kibbutz Novel as Erotic Melodrama"
(March 2012), Vol. 31, No. 1 ''Journal of Israeli History'', pp. 129–146.
"The Spectacles of Isaiah Berlin"
(Spring 2006), ''

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'', pp. 82–112.
"Towards A Hebrew Literature"
(Spring 2000), ''

'', pp. 99–154.
"Zionism's New Challenge"
(Winter 2008), ''

'', pp. 81–109.

Articles

"The Age of Post-Nostalgia"
''

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'', 15 September 2012.
"The End of the Secular Majority"
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'', 3 February 2012.
"The Finishing Touch"
'' Eretz acheret'', 17 September 2009.
"New Age: The Fall of the Secular State"
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'', September 1999.