The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth by Shlomo

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How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.

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How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creation of the state of Israel. In The Words and the Land, post-Zionist Israeli historian Shlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals contributed to this process. One by one, he identifies and calls into question the foundation myths of the Israeli state, beginning with the myth of a people forcibly uprooted, a people-race that began to wander the world in search of a land of asylum. This was a people that would define itself on a biological and "mythological-religious" basis, embodied in words that today feed Israeli political, literary, and historical writing- "exile," "return," and "ascent" (Alyah) to the land of its origins.Since 1948, most intellectuals in Israel have continued to accept this ethno-national image and embrace an exclusive state identity to which only Jewish people can belong. The first challenges to this dominant idea didn't appear in Israel until the 1980s, in the innovative work of the "post-Zionist" historians, who were bent on dismantling the nationalist historical myth and arguing for a state that would belong equally to all its citizens. Analyzing how Israeli intellectuals positioned themselves during the Gulf War and in the new era of communication technologies, Sand extends his analysis globally, looking at the status of intellectuals in all societies.

Author Biography

Shlomo Sand teaches contemporary history at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, and other books.

Details ISBN1584350962 Author Ames Hodges Series Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Year 2011 Translator Ames Hodges ISBN-10 1584350962 ISBN-13 9781584350965 Format Paperback Imprint Semiotext Subtitle Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 305.552089924 Media Book Pages 240 Translated from French Publisher Autonomedia Short Title WORDS & THE LAND Language English Affiliation University of Tel Aviv Audience Age 18 Publication Date 2011-04-15 UK Release Date 2011-04-15 AU Release Date 2011-04-15 NZ Release Date 2011-04-15 US Release Date 2011-04-15 Audience General We've got this

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