In this Book
- The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Brandeis University Press
- Series: The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
summary
Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place” (defined as what Israel is really like) and “Place” (defined as the imaginary community comprised of history, myth, and dream). Through the lens of five major works in Hebrew by writers Abraham Mapu (1853), Theodor Herzl (1902), Yosef Luidor (1912), Moshe Shamir (1948), and Amos Oz (1963), Schwartz unearths the core of this paradox as it evolves over one hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s.
Table of Contents
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- Preface & Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Bibliography
- pp. 315-328
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611686029
Related ISBN(s)
9781584658948, 9781611686012
MARC Record
OCLC
893336341
Pages
338
Launched on MUSE
2014-10-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014