Israel Vs Utopia
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Israel Vs Utopia
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Author : Joel Schalit
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Israel Vs Utopia written by Joel Schalit and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Political Science categories.
Israeli American journalist Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows and the image of it in the minds of Americans. “An incisive look at the connection between the US and Israel, and their respective roles on the world stage . . . Israel vs. Utopia is a book that could only be written by someone intimate with the ethos of both countries.” —Jerusalem Post Israel is a synonym for many things: the ancestral home of the Jewish people, the hell of the Palestinians, the realization of a centuries-old dream of freedom, and the heart of the War on Terror. No country inspires as much debate about its rights and wrongs, its legitimacy and illegitimacies, than Israel. Historically associated with Europe, such debate finally became common in the US during the Bush era, as America deepened its involvement in the region, and Israel fought three wars. In his new book, Israel vs. Utopia, Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows, and the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans. Israel is a state of mind, Schalit argues, as much as it is its own sovereign state. Exploring this tension, in America, in Israel, employing a combination of personal observation, political, and cultural commentary, Schalit defines the instability of Israel, as a metaphor, and America’s troubled love for it, as only an Israeli American would know.
Trouble In Utopia
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Author : Dan Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Trouble In Utopia written by Dan Horowitz 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 History categories.
This book provides a thorough and detailed examination of Israeli institutions and how they function. It explains the decline in effectiveness of the government and the spread of cultural malaise in the Israel of the eighties. Horowitz and Lissak trace the integrative and disintegrative trends in Israel and show how a society that had laid the foundations for a cohesive Jewish nation-state became increasingly vulnerable to centrifugal forces. The book not only reflects a broad and comprehensive approach, but also focuses on themes that cut across institutional structures, such as the weakening of social and political cohesion in an overburdened polity.
Israel Vs Utopia
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Author : Joel Schalit
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Israel Vs Utopia written by Joel Schalit and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Political Science categories.
Employing a combination of personal observation, political commentary and cultural analysis, Schalit examines the instability of Israel's public image around the world, and America's troubled love for it, as only an Israeli-American would know.
Contested Utopia
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Author : Marc Rosenstein
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-03
Contested Utopia written by Marc Rosenstein and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with History categories.
This first book to examine the Jewish state through the lens of Jewish utopian thought, from its biblical beginnings to modernity, offers a fresh perspective on the political, religious, and geopolitical life of Israel. As Marc J. Rosenstein argues, the Jewish people's collective memories, desires, hopes, and faith have converged to envision an ideal life in the Land of Israel--but, critically, the legacy is a kaleidoscope of conflicting (and sometimes overlapping) visions. And after three millennia of imagining utopia, it is almost impossible for Jews to respond to Israel's realities without being influenced--even unconsciously--by these images. Charting the place of utopian thought in Judaism, Rosenstein then illustrates, with original texts, diverse utopian visions of the Jewish state: Torah state (Yavetz), holy community (based on nostalgic memories of the medieval community), national-cultural home (Lewinsky), "normal" state (Herzl), socialist paradise (Syrkin), anarchy (Jabotinsky), and a polity defined by Israel's historic or divinely ordained borders. Analyzing how these disparate utopian visions collide in Israel's attempts to chart policy and practice regarding the Sabbath, social welfare, immigration, developing versus conserving the land, and the Israel-Diaspora relationship yields novel perspectives on contemporary flashpoints. His own utopian vision offers a further entryway for both Israelis and Diaspora Jews into more informed and nuanced conversations about the "Jewish state."
Architecture And Utopia
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Author : Michael Chyutin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Architecture And Utopia written by Michael Chyutin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Architecture categories.
There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. While there is a range of communal and cooperative kibbutz movements, all with slight ideological differences, they are all collective rural communities, based on an ideal to create a social utopian settlement. Placing the kibbutz within the wider context of utopian social ideals and how they have historically been physically and architecturally constructed, this book discusses the form of the 'ideal settlement' as an integral part and means for realizing a utopian doctrine. It presents an analysis of physical planning in the kibbutz through the past eight decades and how changes in ideology are reflected in changes in layout and aesthetics. In doing so, this book shows how a utopian settlement organization behaves over time, from their first appearance in 1920 on, to an examination of the current spatial layouts and the directions of their expected future development.
Utopia And Justice
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Author : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
language : en
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
Release Date : 2012-09
Utopia And Justice written by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and has been published by Olive Branch Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with categories.
The history of the Zionist project in Palestine starts with European dreams, growing out of the Jewish condition in Europe. This book aims at looking at the origins of these utopian ideas, as they were combined with imperial power moves to create a new reality. We learn that the basic ideas, both idealistic dreams and imperial designs, were formed earlier than is often realized. Utopia and Injustice clarifies the big picture, while paying careful attention to major turning points. It will serve as a benchmark in the continuing discussion of current events in the region.
Israel Utopia Incorporated
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Author : Uri Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Israel Utopia Incorporated written by Uri Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Israel categories.
Chasing Utopia
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Author : David Leach
language : en
Publisher: ECW Press
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Chasing Utopia written by David Leach and has been published by ECW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Political Science categories.
A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary region Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws readers into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era. Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together. Crisscrossing the nation, Leach chronicles the controversial decline of Israel’s kibbutz movement and witnesses a renaissance of the original vision for a peaceable utopia in unexpected corners of the Promised Land. Chasing Utopia is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of a divided nation where hope persists against the odds.
Israel
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Author : Uri Hyman Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Israel written by Uri Hyman Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Imagining The Kibbutz
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Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-19
Imagining The Kibbutz written by Ranen Omer-Sherman and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-19 with History categories.
In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz “insiders” (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and “outsiders.” For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once—the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists’ imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself.
