Dehak - A Magazine For Good Literature

Dehak - A Magazine For Good Literature

Editor and publisher	Yehuda Vizan
Categories	Literary journal
Frequency	annual
Circulation	500 (approx. 600 pages per issue)
Publisher	Dehak For Good Literature
First issue	2011
Country	Israel
Based in	Tel Aviv
Language	Hebrew
Website	http://mitzlolpoetry.wix.com/dehak

Dehak - A Magazine For Good Literature (in Hebrew: דְּחָק - כתב עת לספרות טובה) is an Israeli literary magazine edited by Yehuda Vizan, dealing with a wide range of subjects from poetry, prose, drama and philosophy to Judaism, criticism, art and political thought.

"Dehak" is a biblical word meaning "stress" or "push" or "emergency" or a "time of need".

The first issue appeared in 2011 and was accused by critics (such as Menahem Ben), due to its "Maskili" nature, of being too "snobbish and condescending".^[1] Later issues were praised by critics, both conservatives (Makor Rishon^[2]) and liberals (Haaretz, Yitzhak Laor),^[3] as Israel's leading literature magazine.

Among its permanent contributors are many of Israel's predominant poets, authors, scholars, artists and translators.

The magazine has published many interviews with notable personalities such as: John Searle, Charles Simic, Hilary Putnam, Adam Zagajewski, Noam Chomsky, Nathan Zach, Luc Tuymans, Roger Scruton, Aharon Shabtai, Charles Bernstein, Marjorie Perloff, Razmik Davoyan, Paul Muldoon, Rae Armantrout, Richard Greene, Allen W. Wood, Michaël Borremans, Terry Pinkard, Meir Wieseltier, Roger Kimball, Ya'acov Dorchin, Armen Darbinyan, Tobias Wolff, Tom Rockmore, Robert Stern, Hrant Bagratyan and others. The interviews are usually conducted by Yehuda Vizan, Eran Hadas or Ariel Krill.

Dehak is a printed magazine. past issues are available online for free reading (in Hebrew) at the magazine website.

Alongside the magazine operates a small press which publishes Hebrew & translated poetry, drama and criticism.

References

External links

• Official website
• Meet the iconoclast of Israel's poetry world, interview with Dehak's editor Yehuda Vizan, Haaretz, 31.8.2012
• Dehak at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon