This chapter touches on three moments in Modern Hebrew realist literature. The earliest is the late nineteenth century, in which Modern Hebrew was first widely read. Focusing on S. Y. Abramovich’s “In the Secret Place of Thunder,” I argue that the novella’s formal clash between realist and religious social worlds constitutes an attempt to think through the uneven capitalist development of Eastern European Jewish towns in the period. I then turn to Moshe Shamir’s 1947 novel, He Walked through the Fields, a novel paradigmatic in the development of narrative interiority in Hebrew realism. I argue that interiority is invented in order to retain the historical perception of a reality that has gone into crisis. The last text is Avivit Mishmari’s 2013 satirical novel The Old Man Lost His Mind. I argue that the novel should be read against its postmodern predecessors, which registered the terminal crisis of older national-hegemonic historicity. In Mishmari’s novel new developments in Israeli capitalist social form – the advent of anti-liberal capitalism alongside older neoliberal sensibilities – are allegorically juxtaposed to one another, in an effort to restart the Israeli historical imagination.