ToC: Israel Studies 17,3 (2012)

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.issue-3

• SPECIAL SECTION: Israel’s Foreign Relations — Asian Perspectives

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     China’s Relationship with Israel, Opportunities and Challenges, Perspectives from ChinaChina’s Relationship with Israel, Opportunities and Challenges, Perspectives from China(pp. 1-21)

     Yiyi Chen

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.1

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.1

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     Indians and Israelis: Beyond Strategic PartnershipsIndians and Israelis: Beyond Strategic Partnerships(pp. 22-44)

     Maina Chawla Singh

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.22

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.22

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     Turkey and Israel in the 2000s—From Cooperation to ConflictTurkey and Israel in the 2000s—From Cooperation to Conflict(pp. 45-66)

     Özlem Tür

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.45

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.45

• Literature and Music

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     Samson’s Suicide: Death and the Hebrew Literary CanonSamson’s Suicide: Death and the Hebrew Literary Canon(pp. 67-91)

     Rachel S. Harris

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.67

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.67

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     Contested Zionist Masculinity and the Redemption of the Schlemiel in Levi Aryeh Arieli’s “Allah Karim!”Contested Zionist Masculinity and the Redemption of the Schlemiel in Levi Aryeh Arieli’s “Allah Karim!”(pp. 92-118)

     Philip Hollander

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.92

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.92

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     Israeli Art Music: A ReintroductionIsraeli Art Music: A Reintroduction(pp. 119-149)

     Assaf Shelleg

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.119

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.119

• Article

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     The Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Military—From the Bottom UpThe Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Military—From the Bottom Up(pp. 150-175)

     Dana Kachtan

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.150

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.150

• Zionist Dialectics

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     Zionism’s Conflicting Founding Designs and Their Ideological ImpactZionism’s Conflicting Founding Designs and Their Ideological Impact(pp. 176-190)

     Meir Seidler

     DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.176

     Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.176

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  Notes on ContributorsNotes on Contributors(pp. 191-192)

  DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.191

  Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.191

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  Guidelines for ContributorsGuidelines for Contributors(pp. 193-195)

  DOI: 10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.193

  Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.3.193

Cite Ben-Amos and Bourdon, Television and the Formation of Israeli Collective Memory

Ben-Amos, Avner and Jérôme Bourdon. “Old Heroes in a New Medium: The Television Program Such a Life and the Formation of Israeli Collective Memory.” Jewish Social Studies 17.3 (2011): 156-81.

 

URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_social_studies/v017/17.3.ben-amos.html

 

Abstract

The subject of this article is the Israeli television program Such a Life, which was broadcast on the Israel Broadcasting Authority’s Channel One between 1972 and 2001. The program, based on a protagonist’s life and told through a surprise studio encounter with his or her family, friends, and colleagues, was the Israeli version of the earlier U.S. and British television programs This Is Your Life. But where the U.S. and the U.K. programs focused on sentiment and entertainment, the Israeli counterpart emphasized memory and education, in a conscious effort to contribute to the formation of the national memory. The first part of the article describes the history of Such a Life from its inception to its end, and the second part constitutes a structural analysis of the production process and the broadcast episodes, to explain how its image of the Israeli past was cobbled together. We describe the creation of Such a Life, analyze its main features, and explain how it became such a successful vehicle in promoting and diffusing the Zionist view of the “life-story” of Israel.

Cite: Weiss, Landscape at the Ben Gurion Airport

Weiss, Elliott. “Establishing Roots at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport Garden: Landscapes of National Identity.” National Identities 12.2 (2010): 199-210.

 

URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a922322109

Abstract

With the understanding that the planning of public space is a discursive practice, this article examines the cultural meanings encoded in the design of the grounds around Israel’s main airport, Ben Gurion International. Using the example of Terminal 3, the article discusses how the State of Israel leverages landscaped space as an ideological tool in the struggle for control over symbolic expressions of national identity. The design decisions here are framed in the context of the all important Zionist trope of ‘redemption’, or land reclamation in the image of Zion. The airport’s ‘Seven Species Garden’ is explained as part of a widespread mythology of an autochthonous people/land bond, deeply rooted in Jewish-Israeli consciousness, which draws upon the Bible for territorial legitimacy and national identity. Finally, the Orientalist bias betrayed in the airport grounds effectively bars entry of the county’s largest minority to the ‘gateway’ of Israeli national space because such references are based on ethnicity.

Cite: Gavrieli-Nuri, The Mythmaking Surrounding Israel’s 1967 Victory

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Gavrieli-Nuri, Dalia. "Saying ‘War,’ Thinking ‘Victory’—The Mythmaking Surrounding Israel’s 1967 Victory." Israel Studies 15,1 (2010): 95-114.

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Abstract

The article offers a retrospective on some long-term cultural implications of the military victory achieved in the Six Day War. It argues that the mechanisms of cultural production operating in Israel have transformed the event into a myth: an idealized naïve story, which describes reality without asking too many questions. It examines the cultural construction of the victory, the making of a myth, its reasons, aims, and results through cultural products: texts, films, and material-cultural products; canonical literature and popular culture; mainstream culture and protest culture. It sheds light on Israel’s socio-political environment after 1967 from a new perspective and contributes to our understanding of the complex cultural processes entailing mythmaking in modern Israel.

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URL: http://inscribe.iupress.org/doi/abs/10.2979/ISR.2010.15.1.95

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Keywords: 1967 war, Millitary, Israel: Culture, Israel: Politics, Myth, Film / Cinema, Israel: Literature, Israel: Media