In Search of Identity : Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture

✍ Scribed by Dan Urian and Efraim Karsh (eds.)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 291
Series: Cass Studies in Israeli History, Politics and Society
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Like most 19th and 20th century national movements, culture played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity, and with Zionism being the secular movement that it is, culture became the effective prism through which religious and historical notions of Jewish nationalism were filtered. As Israel reaches its 50th year of statehood, Israeli society faces a deepening crisis of identity. This is particularly evident in Israeli culture which, for quite some time, has been effectively disintegrating into several simultaneous sub-cultures. This process has gained momentum during the 1990s due to a relaxation of national cohesiveness following the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations on the one hand, and the growing post-modern influences on Israeli culture, on the other. This, in turn, has brought to the fore a whole range of questions which have hitherto been ignored, not least the inter-relationship between the Hebrew and Jewish aspects of Israeli culture.

Reviews:
'engaging and dynamic book…This comprehensive collection of articles will be of perticular interest to students and scholars of Jewish-Israeli culture and to any reader with an interest in the subject.' - Religious Studies Review

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction / Efraim Karsh and Dan Urian --

CULTURAL TENSION

Judaism in Israeli culture / Eliezer Schweid --
Secular Judaism and its prospects / Charles S. Liebman --
Between hegemony and dormant Kulturkampf in Israel / Baruch Kimmerling --
Shall we find sufficient strength? On behalf of Israeli secularism / Gershon Shaked --
Between Rabbi Shach and modern Hebrew literature / Dan Miron --

THE JEWISHNESS OF ISRAELI IDENTITY

Spiritual rootlessness and circumscription to the 'Here and now' in the Sabra world view / Avraham Shapira --
The Shdemot circle members in search of Jewish sources / Gad Ufaz --
Jewish education in the Jewish state / David Zisenwine --

ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY

Sisera's mother and the Trojan women: on universal aspects of the Jewish/Israeli theatre / Eli Rozik-Rosen --
From Jew to Hebrew: the 'Zionist narrative' in the Israeli cinema of the 1940s and 1950s / Nurit Geraz --
The theme of Jerusalem in the works of the Israeli fathers of conceptual arts / Mordechai Omer --
The Dybbuk revisited: images of religious Jews on the Israeli stage / Shimon Levy --
Baalei teshuva ('Returnees to the religious fold') in Israeli theatre / Dan Urian --
From rejection to recognition: Israeli art and the Holocaust / Dalia Manor

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