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How did S. Yizhar and Moshe Shamir portray life in Israeli society?
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S. Yizhar and Moshe Shamir were prominent native Israeli prose writers who emerged as the leading representatives of their generation. In their work, they portrayed life in Israeli society by focusing on the experiences of individuals within a group-oriented environment, specifically writing about life in the kibbutz, the underground, and the 1948–49 war.1
By probing the sensibility of the individual, their literature captured the complexities of personal identity within the collective structures of the newly established state.1