以色列文学指一九四八年以色列建国以来迄今的文学,在这短短的五十年间,它上承圣经文学、拉比文学、流散地文学及旧巴勒斯坦文学传统,反映以色列特有的社会风情与独特的民族文化心理。在此同时,它又受到西方文学思潮与文学创作的影响,在思想内容与审美形式上不断发生着变化。尤其是到了八九十年代,以色列文学出现了一种全方位的革新,达到了前所未有的繁荣与活跃。批评家们通常将四十年代到八十年代的以色列作家分为两大派系,其一是从三十年代末期或者是四十年代中期便开始文学创 The Israeli literature refers to the literature up to now since Israel’s founding in 1948. During this short span of fifty years, it has inherited Biblical literature, Rabbi literature, scattered literature and old Palestinian literary traditions, reflecting Israel’s unique social customs and Unique national culture psychology. At the same time, it is influenced by the trend of western literature and literary creation, and constantly changes in its content and aesthetic form. Especially in the 80s and 90s, there appeared an all-round reform in Israeli literature, reaching an unprecedented prosperity and activity. Critics usually classify Israeli writers from the 1940s to the 1980s as two major factions. One is starting literary creation from the late 1930s or mid-1940s