The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma

by Robert S. Wistrich, David Ohana (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714641638
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/1995
Series:	Israeli History, Politics and Society , #1
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Wistrich, David Ohana

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

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 meaning and purposes of the old myths and of the new ones growing to replace them, emphasizing the context of the maturing of Israeli society rather than its international relations. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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