Secularizing the sacred : aspects of Israeli visual culture / by Alec Mishory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishory, Alec, author.

Series:

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies; volume65.

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies; volume65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Israeli--History--20th century.

Art, Israeli.

Art--Palestine--History--19th century.

Art.

Jewish art and symbolism--Israel.

Jewish art and symbolism.

Jewish art and symbolism--Palestine.

Zionism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 407 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion.” Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgement

Illustrations

Note on Terms and Transliteration

Introduction

Before Statehood

The Clarion Call: E. M. Lilien and the Jewish Renaissance

Boris Schatz’s Pantheon of Zionist Cultural Heroes

“The Garden of Love”: Early Zionist Eroticism

Zionist Revival and Rebirth on the Façade of the Municipal School in Tel Aviv

Objects and Conceptions of Sovereignty

Israel’s Scroll of Independence

Hues of Heaven: the Israeli Flag

Menorah and Olive Branches on Israel’s National Emblem

From Exile to Homeland: the Mythical Journey of the Temple Menorah

Zionism Liberates the Captured Daughter of Zion

The Twelve Tribes of Israel: from Biblical Symbolism to Emblems of a Mythical Promised Land

Old and New in Land of Israel Flora

Ancient Magic and Modern Transformation: the Unique Hebrew Alphabet

Sculptural Commemoration within the Israeli Public Space

From Pilgrimage Site to Military Marching Grounds: Theodor Herzl’s Gravesite in Jerusalem

Natan Rapoport’s Soviet Style of the Yad Mordechai and Negba Memorials

Holocaust and Resurrection in Yigal Tumarkin’s Memorial in Tel Aviv

In Conclusion: Secularizing the Sacred, Israeli Art, and Jewish Orthodox Laws

Back Matter

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-40527-5

OCLC:

1096241563

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004405271 DOI