Identity And Modern Israeli Literature
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Identity And Modern Israeli Literature
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Author : Risa Domb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Identity And Modern Israeli Literature written by Risa Domb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This book explores through literature the long and complex evolution of Jewish identity in Israel and the central role that language, ideology, memory, and culture have played in that journey. Language is possibly the most important component of any collective identity. Indeed, any nation can be better understood through its imaginative literature and never more so than in the case of Israeli literature, whose story runs in parallel with that of the State of Israel and with Zionism. The political task of nationalism directed the course of Israeli literature into a distinct national literature and in turn the literature participated in the formation of the nation. Language became inseparable from identity. But whose Hebrew is it? Through key texts by such authors as Y. H. Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Nathan Shaham, Yoram Kaniuk, Aharon Appelfeld, A. B. Yehoshua, Gabriela Avigur-Rotem and Sami Michael, Risa Domb explores the connections between language, ideology, memory, culture, and identity, and asks whether ideology and identity are on an inescapable collision course.
Ideology And Jewish Identity In Israeli And American Literature
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Author : Emily Miller Budick
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Ideology And Jewish Identity In Israeli And American Literature written by Emily Miller Budick and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities. The disinclination of Israeli and American Jewish fictional narratives to gravitate toward one another tells us much about the processes of Jewish self-definition as expressed in literary texts over the last fifty years. Through essays by prominent Israeli Americanists, American Hebraists, Israeli critics of Hebrew writing, and American specialists in the field of Jewish writing, the book shows how modern Jewish culture rewrites the Jewish tradition across quite different ideological imperatives, such as Zionist metanarrative, the urge of Jewish immigrants to find Israel in America, and socialism. The contributors also explore how that narrative turn away from religious tradition to secular identity has both enriched and impoverished Jewish modernity.
Israeli Identity As Expressed In Contemporary Israeli Literature
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Author : Callie Souther
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Israeli Identity As Expressed In Contemporary Israeli Literature written by Callie Souther and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature categories.
Roots In The Air
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Author : Nadezda Rumjanceva
language : en
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Roots In The Air written by Nadezda Rumjanceva and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Located on the seam of Diaspora and Israeli Literature, Anglophone Israeli Literature comprises a loose community of 100-500 authors and has co-existed with the Hebrew writing tradition in Israel since the 1970s. Consisting mainly of immigrants from Anglophone countries, Anglophone Israeli Literature is characterized by a search for personal and poetic identity in a highly transcultural environment, challenging settled identities and opting instead for flexibility, flux and inclusion. The present volume considers Anglophone Israeli Literature as a phenomenon in its critical, social and historical aspects on the one hand and explores the specific mechanisms of constructing and representing poetic identity on the other hand. Focusing on the works by and interviews with some of the core representatives of Anglophone Israeli Literature – Shirley Kaufman, Rachel Tzvia Back, Karen Alkalay-Gut, Lami, Richard Sherwin, Jerome Mandel, Riva Rubin and Rochelle Mass – the book analyzes three pivotal elements of identity: language, geography and place, and political and emotional self-positioning towards the Other.
The Zionist Paradox
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Author : Yigal Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-02
The Zionist Paradox written by Yigal Schwartz and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 ÒplaceÓ (defined as what Israel is really like) and ÒPlaceÓ (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.
Multiculturalism In Israel
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Author : Adia Mendelson-Maoz
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-15
Multiculturalism In Israel written by Adia Mendelson-Maoz and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from the former Soviet Union, and of Ethiopian-Israelis, the author demonstrates an unexpected richness and diversity in the Israeli literary scene, a reality very different from the monocultural image that Zionism aspired to create. Drawing on a wide body of social and literary theory, Mendelson-Maoz compares and contrasts the literatures of the four communities she profiles. In her discussion of the literature of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, she presents the question of language and translation, and she provides three case studies of particular authors and their reception. Her study of Mizrahi literature adopts a chronological approach, starting in the 1950s and proceeding toward contemporary Mizrahi writing, while discussing questions of authenticity and self-determination. The discussion of Israeli literature written by immigrants from the former Soviet Union focuses both on authors who write Israeli literature in Russian and of Russian immigrants writing in Hebrew. The final section of the book provides a valuable new discussion of the work of Ethiopian-Israeli writers, a group whose contributions have seldom been previously acknowledged. The picture that emerges from this groundbreaking book replaces the traditional, homogeneous historical narrative of Israeli literature with a diversity of voices, a multiplicity of origins, and a wide range of different perspectives. In doing so, it will provoke researchers in a wide range of cultural fields to look at the rich traditions that underlie it in new and fresh ways.
All Things Must Pass
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Author : Roy Holler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
All Things Must Pass written by Roy Holler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with American literature categories.
My dissertation introduces the concept of passing to literary criticism of Israeli fiction, rethinking the identity shifts of Jewish immigrants and Holocaust survivors in relation to integrationist demands of the Zionist narrative. The resettlement of the diaspora in Israel did more than move physical bodies in and out of the land: it also called for an erasure and restructuring of one's identity. The term "passing" originally describes a similar phenomenon in African American studies, and while scholars in Jewish Studies have explored how passing shapes Jewish Diaspora life, our discipline has yet to address the central role of passing in Israel, within intra-Jewish relations, and as a signifier of contingent identity structures. The belief that Israeli/Jewish identities are fixed and can be achieved only through the eradication of other identities is best exemplified by recent controversial legislation in Israel and the United States. At the same time, I argue, readings of Hebrew literature similarly emphasize difference and while aspiring to locate a space for multiple identities, end up creating segregated ones. My dissertation challenges essentialist readings of categorical identities in Israel, specifically, the ongoing differentiation between native and diasporic Jewishness. I work with a broad range of theoretical approaches--African American passing narratives, Critical Race Theory, legal theory and political science--to renegotiate the binary division into mega-identities in Israel.
Jewish Writing And Identity In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Leon I. Yudkin
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1982-01-01
Jewish Writing And Identity In The Twentieth Century written by Leon I. Yudkin and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with Jewish literature categories.
Place And Ideology In Contemporary Hebrew Literature
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Author : Karen Grumberg
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Place And Ideology In Contemporary Hebrew Literature written by Karen Grumberg and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson theorized the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom, distanced from the larger world of politics and law. This quotidian space is shaped by the everyday culture of its inhabitants. In Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature, Grumberg sets anchor in this and other contemporary theories of space and place, then embarks on subtle close readings of recent Israeli fiction that demonstrate how literature in practice can complicate those discourses. Literature in Israel over the past twenty-five years tends to be set in ordinary spaces rather than in explicitly, ideologically charged locations such as contested borders and debated territories. Rarely taking place in settings of war and political violence, it depicts characters’ encounters with everyday places such as buses and cafés as central to their self-conception. Yet in academic discussions, the imaginative representations of these sites tend to be neglected in favor of spaces more overtly relevant to religious and political debates. To fill this gap, Grumberg proposes a new understanding of how Israeli identity is mapped onto the spaces it inhabits. She demonstrates that in the writing of many Israeli novelists even mundane sites often have significant ideological implications. Exploring a wide range of authors, from Amos Oz to Orly Castel-Bloom, Grumberg argues that literary depictions of vernacular places play a profound and often unidentified role in serving or resisting ideology.
Postmodern Love In The Contemporary Jewish Imagination
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Author : Efraim Sicher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Postmodern Love In The Contemporary Jewish Imagination written by Efraim Sicher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Social Science categories.
Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader.