The Shaping of Israeli Identity

Myth, Memory and Trauma
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-7146-4163-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Israeli History, Politics and Society

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wistrich, Robert

Ohana, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Wistrich, David Ohana