Beyond the Land : Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century / Melissa Weininger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weininger, Melissa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish diaspora.

Jewish diaspora in literature.

Jewish diaspora--Art.

Jewish nationalism.

Jewish nationalism--Art.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Nationalism--Israel--Art.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Beyond the Land examines contemporary Israeli literature and visual art created in an about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity beyond the binary lens imposed by political Zionism. Melissa Weininger shoes that diaspora Israeli culture engages both diasporic and Zionist models together, reimagining the language and geography of homeland. These works of literature and art envison new forms of Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality. -- Publisher

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Home Away from Home: The Problem of Diaspora

1. Zion in the Diaspora: Alternative Histories, Alternative Homelands

2. American Hebrew: The Transnational Israeli Novel in the Twenty-First Century

3. Hebrew in English: Translingual Israeli Literature

4. Haunted Dreams: Exile and Return in the Work of Yael Bartana

5. The Neue Diaspora: Diasporic Hebrew in Berlin

Conclusion: Pandemic as Metaphor

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814350614

0814350615

OCLC:

1378933528