Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature

Index

267 Index “About Myself” (“Al ‘atsmi”) (Goldberg), 209 Abu-Assad, Hany, 125 Aciman, André, 212, 214 Adama meshuga‘at (film by Shaul), 39 Adorno, Theodor W., 21 Africa, 7–8, 13, 215, 231–46. See also Cameroon Ahmed, Sara, 207, 210–11, 221 airplane, 207–8, 209, 219 airport, 131, 201, 210–12, 216–19 ‘akeda, 114 “Al ‘atsmi” (About myself) (Goldberg), 209 Alexaderplatz, 195 ‘Al ha-makom (Gurevitch/Aran), 16 alienation: in asylums, 6, 77, 250; balcony and, 77, 80–84, 85–87, 250; in cemeteries, 6, 77, 104; in cities, 77, 84–85, 107, 250; from home, 141, 142; in hospitals, 250; illness as metaphor for, 87; in Israel, 84–85; perception of houses and, 230n10. See also isolation ‘aliya (Jewish immigration to Israel), 14, 65, 177, 203–4 ‘aliyot (waves of immigration), 14, 62n19 Almog, Oz: on Israeli emulation of Arabs, 32; on knowing the land, 82n2; on purity of arms, 49; on significance of Hebrew names, 167; on Zionist derision of urban life, 174–75 Al tagidi layla. See Don’t Call It Night (Oz) Alter, Robert, 109 Amir, Merav, 131, 163–64, 165–66 Anderson, Benedict, 229 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 131 apathy, 61, 84, 115 Arab Israelis. See Israeli Palestinians Arab Labor (sitcom by Kashua), 128 Arabs, 32, 68, 129–30. See also Israeli Palestinians; Palestinians Aran, Gideon, 16–17 ‘aravim rokdim. See Dancing Arabs (Kashua) Aronis, Carolin, 80n1 arrival: as chronotope, 187; of immigrants at kibbutzim, 41, 45, 165, 166, 169–70, 173; of non-Zionist Jews in Israel, 176–77, 187; as stagnation/ decay/death, 203, 207, 212–13; Zionist valorization of, 8, 176, 203–4, 207 Artsot ha-tan. See Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories (Oz) Ashcroft, Bill: on borders, 246; on effect of gaze on identity, 221; on imperial gaze, 240; on Oz’s representation of place, 34; theory of place/space, 1, 20–21; view of surveillance, 236 268 • Index Ashkenazim: conception/adoption of Zionism, 41; Hoffmann’s European Jews vs., 177; population of kibbutzim, 38–39; racism of, 118; rift between Mizrahim and, 202; view of Mizrahim , 63. See also European Israelis asylum: assertion of individuality in, 89, 94–96; attempt to maintain social order, 88–90, 94–95, 96, 97, 122; as heterotopia of deviation, 6, 77, 88, 89–97, 121, 169; as place of resistance to alienating social order, 89, 90–91, 94–96, 97; power structure in, 87 Augé, Marc, 22–23, 209 aura, 178, 179–80, 186 authenticity: garden as redemptive site of, 56–61; jargon of, 21; of Palestinian identity, 124, 149–57; of Sabras, 44; traits related to, 56n18 ‘avoda ‘aravit (sitcom by Kashua), 128 Azaryahu, Maoz, 103–4 Bachelard, Gaston, 19, 230, 232–33, 235 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 7, 178, 238n14 Balaban, Avraham, 115, 159 “Balconies of Tel Aviv, The” (Aronis), 80n1 balcony: alienation created by, 78, 80–87, 250; gardening on, 52; intertwining of public/private space, 79–81, 121; as place of violence, 80–81; promotion of collective Zionist ethos, 77; terrace vs., 236n12 Band’s Visit, The (film by Kolirin), 63–64 Bar-Gal, Yoram, 103–4 barriers. See borders; fences; mahsom (roadblock) Barthes, Roland, 225, 226, 227n8, 228 Bartov, Hanoch, 194–95n13 Bashford, Alison, 87 Bedouin: Israelis’ emulation of, 32; relationship with desert, 67, 68–69, 70, 71; as residents of outside spaces, 75, 110; tension between kibbutz and, 34, 40; violence of portrayed by Oz, 47 Beer Sheva, 64n27 Beit Shean, 63 Be-moh yadav (Shamir), 52–53, 185 Ben-Gurion, David: campaign to settle Negev, 33–34, 61–62; plan for Jewish normalization, 15; Spartan life of, 175–76; view of Negev, 67, 68 Benjamin, Walter, 176n1, 178–79 Ben-Ner, Yitzhak, 39 Ben-Zadok, Efraim, 38, 62n21, 63n24 Bernhardt (Hoffmann), 166 Bhabha, Homi: concept of Third Space, 35, 126; on gaze in colonial mimicry, 245; remarks about Fanon, 206; on unhomely homes, 20, 141n11, 230n10 Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 71 Bible: concept of place, 16–17; desert as place of punishment/purification in, 32–34, 37; as home of Jews, 15; plants associated with Israel in, 54–55, 57; story of banishment from Eden, 53 Bikur ha-tizmoret (film by Kolirin). See Band’s Visit, The (Kolirin) Birth of the Clinic, The (Foucault), 99 blindness: caused by neocolonial terrace , 239–40; to corruption in urban places, 92; hypersight linked to, 69–71, 222–23; link to stasis, 215; refusal to see as, 226; relationship to power, 201 Bliss (Matalon): description of houses in, 230–31...