The Shaping of Israeli Identity

Myth, Memory and Trauma
Herausgeber: Wistrich, Robert S; Ohana, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A dozen essays document the evolution of national myths in Israel as the heroic figures and events of independence and survival transmute into blind fanaticism, great-power manipulation, and traditional colonialism and genocide. Without passing any judgement on the changes, they delve into the meani

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780714641638
• ISBN-10: 0714641634
• Artikelnr.: 21014186

Autorenporträt

Robert Wistrich, David Ohana

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Theodor Herzl: Zionist Icon, Myth-Maker and Social Utopian,
Robert S. Wistrich; Chapter 2 Zarathustra in Jerusalem: Nietzsche and the
"New Hebrews", David Ohana; Chapter 3 Ben-Gurion's Mythopoetics, Ze'ev
Tzahor; Chapter 4 The Zionist Right and National Liberation: From
Jabotinsky to Avraham Stern, Joseph Heller; Chapter 5 The Multivocality of
a National Myth: Memory and Counter-Memories of Masada, Yael Zerubavel;
Chapter 6 Political Dimensions of Holocaust Memory in Israel During the
1950s, Yechiam Weitz; Chapter 7 "In Everlasting Memory": Individual and
Communal Holocaust Commemoration in Israel, Judith Tydor Baumel; Chapter 8
Paradigms Sometimes Fit: The Haredi Response to the Yom Kippur War, Charles
S. Liebman; Chapter 9 Isaac Rebound: The Aqedah as a Paradigm in Modern
Israeli Poetry, Ruth Kartun-Blum; Chapter 10 Israel as a Post-Zionist
Society, Erik Cohen; Chapter 11 The Jewish-Arab Conflict In Recent Israeli
Literature, Leon I. Yudkin; Chapter 12 Modernity and Charisma in
Contemporary Israel: The Case of Baba Sali and Baba Baruch, Yoram Bilu,
Eyal Ben-Ari;