Birth-throes of the Israeli homeland : the concept of moledet / David Ohana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohana, David, author.

Series:

Routledge Jewish studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism--History.

Zionism.

Israel--History.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"The book brings forth various perspectives on the Israeli "homeland" (moledet) from various known Israeli intellectuals such as Boaz Evron, Menachem Brinker, Jacqueline Kahanoff and more. Binding together various academic fields to deal with the question of the essence of the Israeli homeland: from the examination of the status of the Israeli homeland by such known sociologist as Michael Feige, to the historical analysis of Robert Wistrich of the place Israel occupies in history in relation to historical anti-Semitism. The study also examines various movements that bear significant importance on the development of the notion of the Israeli homeland in Israeli society: Such movement as "The New Hebrews" and Hebrewism are examined both historically in relation to their place in Zionist history and ideologically in comparison with other prominent movements. Drawing on the work of Jacqueline Kahanoff to provide a unique Mediterranean model for the Israeli homeland, the volume examines prominent models among the Religious Zionist sector of Israeli society regarding the relation of the biblical homeland to the actual homeland of our times. Discussing the various interpretations of the concept of the nation and its land in the discourse of Hebrew and Israeli identity, the book is a key resource for scholars interested in nationalism, philosophy, modern Jewish history and Israeli Studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction: whence and whither the homeland

Birththroes

The father of the homeland

Yavne or Canaan

Territory and assimilation

The homeland as a plurality of places

Birththroes of the homeland, birththroes of the Messiah

Notes

Chapter 1: Pilgrimage to the backside of the desert

The canonical element and the selfreferential element

The death of the leader. Why Sde Boker?

The first years of commemoration: the dead leader in search of an identity

Menahem begin and the nationalizing of Ben-Gurion

The importance of the Negev

The distancing from the leader

The memorial ceremony: between Zionism and cynicism

Chapter 2: The Hebrewism that engendered the homeland

Non-mythical Judaism

Berdichevsky: brushing Jewish history against the grain

Nietzsche - the banality of holiness

A spiritual school or extended family?

Brenner - "heretical believer" or "tragic realist"?

Sartre and Brinker - the existentialist from there and the one from here

Are we still secular?

The landscape of their neighborhood

Chapter 3: The new Hebrews

Between Ratosh and "Ya'ir"

Between Ratosh and Evron

The Canaanite idea or Hebrew identity?

The "state of all its citizens"

Chapter 4: From antisemitism and anti-Zionism to Moledet

The world of yesterday

The Jews - the demon of Europe

Antisemitism as a lethal obsession

Old homeland, new antisemitism

The historian as an intellectual

Chapter 5: A Levantine Moledet

Two sisters from the Levant

Religious existentialism

From the Levant to Africa

A theory of spatial identity

The mythical aspect of Levantinism

Levantinism in Israel as an open wound

Epilogue or prologue?

Notes.

Chapter 6: Israel's realms of memory

A sociologist and his world

Political "communities of experience"

Living with the trauma

Excavating the present

The "old man" and the desert

The privatization of commemoration

To remember and to forget

Chapter 7: Settlers and the Land of the Bible

The broader theological perspective

Name and place

Settlement and Canaanism

The rise to prominence of the Bible in religious Zionism

Back to the beginning

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-00-302159-X

1-003-02159-X

1-000-06748-3

9781003021599

OCLC:

1137194434