In Search of Identity

Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture
Herausgeber: Urian, Dan; Karsh, Efraim

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Produktbeschreibung

Culture has played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity. Since the 1950s, Israeli culture has been disintegrating into simultaneous sub-cultures. The contributors discuss the nature and characteristics of this cultural tension and the nature of Jewishness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780714644400
• ISBN-10: 0714644404
• Artikelnr.: 21518220

Autorenporträt

Dan Urian, Efraim Karsh

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Cultural tension: Judaism in Israel culture, Eliezer Schweid;
secular Judaism and its prospects, Charles S. Liebman; between hegemony and
dormant Kulturkampf in Israel, Baruch Kimmerling; shall we find sufficient
strength? on behalf of Israel secularism, Gershon Shaked; between Rabbi
Shach and modern Hebrew literature, Dan Miron. Part 2 The Jewishness of
Israeli identity: spiritual rootlessness and circumscription to the here
and now in the Sabra World View, Avraham Shapira; the Shdemot circle
members in search of Jewish sources, Gad Ufaz; Jewish education in the
Jewish state, David Zisenwine. Part 3 Artistic representations of Jewish
identity: Sisera's mother and the Trojan women - on universal aspects of
the Jewish/Israeli theatre, Eli Rozik-Rosen; from Jew to Hebrew - the
Zionist narrative in the Israeli cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, Nurit
Gertz; the theme of Jerusalem in the works of the Israeli fathers of
conceptual arts, Moderchai Omer; The Dybbuk revisited - images of religious
Jews on the Israeli stage, Shimon Levy.