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Matzpen (eBook, PDF)

A History of Israeli Dissidence
Übersetzer: Schneider, Jake

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization - Matzpen (compass) - that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from the recently occupied territories, and placing itself outside the national consensus. Even before the war, the group emphasised the colonial dimension of the conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, which was irresolvable within the paradigm of the nation-state. Matzpen instead advocated for Israel's de-Zionisation and a socialist revolution in the Middle East in order to both restore the rights of Palestinian Arabs and guarantee the existence of Israeli Jews as a new Hebrew nation. However, in the era after Auschwitz, when the Jewish world stood in almost unanimous solidarity with the Jewish state, Matzpen's radical perspective was at odds with the history and memory of the Holocaust. Against this backdrop, this study places Matzpen's political stance in its historical context and sheds new light on the political culture of Israel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474451185
• Artikelnr.: 72429283

Autorenporträt

Research Associate at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. Jake Schneider is a US-born, Berlin-based translator and the editor in chief of the literary journal SAND, established in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: Cohn-Bendit on the Roof in Gan Shmuel
1. Communist Dissidents
2. Leftist Colonisers
3. The Invention of a Hebrew Nation
4. Hal'a HaKibbush! - Down with the Occupation
5. Khamsin: A New Vision for the Middle East
6. Transcending the Holocaust: Jewish Past, Hebrew Present, Socialist Future
Bibliography.