This comprehensive course offers a survey of Hebrew literary prose from the 19^th Century to the present day, focusing on prominent writers and major trends. Among the issues addressed will be: The literature of Jewish Enlightenment; the writing of S.Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mocher Sforim); the beginning of Hebrew Modernism: Y.H. Brenner and U.N. Gnessin; lyrical realism in the writing of D. Baron; the writing of S.Y. Agnon; the 48 generation; late Israeli Modernism in the 1960s; from Neo Realism to Postmodernism.