Israel Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2016 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. This new issue contains the following articles: How do states die: lessons for Israel
Steven R. David Pages: 270-290 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140358Towards a biblical psychology for modern Israel: 10 guides for healthy living Kalman J. Kaplan Pages: 291-317 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140349 The past as a yardstick: Europeans, Muslim migrants and the onus of European-Jewish histories The mental cleavage of Israeli politics Framing policy paradigms: population dispersal and the Gaza withdrawal National party strategies in local elections: a theory and some evidence from the Israeli case ‘I have two homelands’: constructing and managing Iranian Jewish and Persian Israeli identities Avoiding longing: the case of ‘hidden children’ in the Holocaust ‘Are you being served?’ The Jewish Agency and the absorption of Ethiopian immigration | The danger of Israel according to Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi Leisure in the twenty-first century: the case of Israel Limits to cooperation: why Israel does not want to become a member of the International Energy Agency The attitude of the local press to marginal groups: between solidarity and alienation The construction of Israeli ‘masculinity’ in the sports arena Holocaust images and picturing catastrophe: the cultural politics of seeing |
Tag Archives: Newspaper
New Article: Malinsky, Casualty Count Framing in the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict
Malinsky, Ayelet. “Death Is in the Eye of the Beholder: A Study of Casualty Count Framing in the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 8.3 (2015): 491-502.
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2015.1096653
Abstract
The 2014 Israel–Gaza war was the third of a string of conflicts to erupt between the State of Israel and Hamas in neighbouring Gaza and quickly became the deadliest for both sides. Even with the extensive media attention this crisis received, calls for more objective reporting were widespread, as locating sources that were not clearly influenced or reflective of political biases seemed near impossible. This paper seeks to explore the role “cultural proximity” plays in informing casualty count reporting in times of conflict. Qualitative content analysis is conducted on news coverage of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict in the American daily newspaper, The New York Times, and the Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, to assess whether significant differences exist in the way casualty figures are addressed across varying degrees of political and cultural involvement. This research reveals that variations in casualty count reporting do indeed exist across cultural and national contexts, and deems this subject worthy of further research.
New Article: Tenenboim-Weinblatt et al, Conflict Narratives in the Israeli News Media
Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren, Thomas Hanitzsch, and Rotem Nagar. “Beyond Peace Journalism. Reclassifying Conflict Narratives in the Israeli News Media.” Journal of Peace Research (early view; online first).
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343315609091
Abstract
This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, focusing in particular on the dualistic approach of the peace journalism model. Using quantitative content analysis, the proposed framework is then applied to the journalistic coverage in the Israeli media of three Middle-Eastern conflicts: the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the conflict surrounding Iran’s nuclear program, and the Syrian civil war. The coverage is examined in three leading news outlets – Haaretz, Israel Hayom, and Ynet – over a six-month period. Based on hierarchical cluster analysis, the article identifies four characteristic types of narratives in the examined coverage. These include two journalistic narratives of violence: one inward-looking, ethnocentric narrative, and one outward-looking narrative focusing on outgroup actors and victims; and two political-diplomatic narratives: one interactional, and one outward-looking. In addition to highlighting different constellations of points of view and conflict measures in news stories, the identified clusters also challenge several assumptions underlying existing models, such as the postulated alignment between elite/official actors and violence frames.
Conference Program: NAPH 2015 (June 22 – 24, University of Memphis)
The preliminary program for the upcoming NAPH 2015 Conference at the University of Memphis is now complete and has been posted on its website. Click here for full program (PDF).
- Registration is now open for non-presenters. To register, please go to the above link and click on the “Conference Registration” feature. Banquet tickets can also be pre-purchased there.
- For information regarding the conference venue as well as conference accommodations, please visit: https://naphhebrew.org/conference/naph-conference-2015. Navigate to “Travel and Accommodations Info” feature for Travel and Accommodations information.
- Non-presenting members who are interested in chairing one of the conference sessions should complete the short webform at https://naphhebrew.org/conference-chairs.
- For those who wish to purchase additional kosher meals (other than the Banquet), they may be pre-purchased and delivered to the Holiday Inn every day during the conference. The meals will be double wrapped in a to-go box and delivered to the Holiday Inn. (They cannot be delivered to the Fogelman Convention Center as they will charge a costly delivery fee per order.) Double wrapped plastic cutlery will be also be provided.
Panels on Israeli Literature and Culture
Day 1 (June 22, Monday)
Session 1: 9:00-10:45
1.1 Literature: Literature and Politics
Batya Shimony, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
כבר לא קזבלן – ייצוגי החייל המזרחי בספרות העברית
Rima Shikhmanter, Tel Aviv University
הפנייה ימינה: הימין הפוליטי ברומן ההיסטורי הישראלי לילדים ולנוער
Tzipora Kedar, Zefat Academic College
“מרובעים” של דה-האן: פוליטיקאי מול משורר?
1.3 Pedagogy: Teaching the Hebrew Textual Tradition across Cultures
Organizer: Or Rogovin, Bucknell University
Or Rogovin, Bucknell University
The Hebrew Bible in Israeli and American Culture
Naomi Sokoloff, University of Washington
“Modern Poetry, Traditional Prayers: Teaching Jewish and Islamic
Traditions”
Edna Lauden, Tel Aviv University
“Take your son, your only son, whom you love…”: One story, Two
narratives.
Session 2 11:15-1:00
2.1 Literature: Female Master Poets: Yocheved Bat Miriam and Dalia Hertz
Organizer: Ruth Kartun-Blum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ruth Kartun-Blum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
בת-מרים: משוררת למשוררים
Uzi Shavit, Tel Aviv University
עמי והם: התגובה השירית של שלונסקי ובת-מרים למלחמת העולם השנייה
והשואה בזמן אמת
Anat Weisman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
דליה הרץ – משוררת לעצמה?
2.2 Literature: Studies in Modern Jewish Thought and Classical Hebrew
Fiction
Yoav Ronel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
מלאך ההיסטוריה של ברדיצ’בסקי: תשוקה וכתיבה ברומן “מרים”
Laura Wiseman, York University
התרוצצות בין הקדרות: המתח בין הצמחונות לבין התשוקה לבשר ברומן
שירה מאת ש”י עגנון
Mark Kaplowitz, University of Memphis
Hermann Cohen, The Last Maskil
2.4 Pedagogy: On Teaching Hebrew in Israel and Around the World
Nataliia Bakulina, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine,
Institute of Pedagogy, Kiev, Ukraine
הערכת הישגים לימודיים בעברית כשפה נוספת בבתי ספר יסודיים באוקרינה
Paul Overland & Jennifer Noonan, Ashland Theological Seminary; Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary
Assets of Communicative Language Teaching for an Oral-Based Culture: a Field Report
Rachel Rosner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The David Yellin Academic College of Education
בחינת מונחים ועניינים בתכניות להוראת כתיבה במוסדות החינוך בישראל בראי תאוריות פילוסופיות
Session 3 2:30-4:15
3.1 Literature: The Displaced, the Detached, and the Hebrew Canon
Aviv Ben-Or, Brandeis University
The Arab-Jew as Displaced Intellectual in Shimon Ballas’ Fiction
Nancy Berg, Washington University in St. Louis
The Canon, the Academy, and shelilat hagolah
Ronit Gez, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
הגרסה הנשית לנארטיב התלוש בטרילוגיה – ‘בחינות’, ‘שוקולד’, ‘קיצו של זיו סנדר’ מאת דבורה בארון
Session 4 4:30-6:15
4.1 Literature: New Views of Time in Hebrew Literature
Organizer: Roy Greenwald, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Roy Greenwald, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
קול בלי בעלים: על משחק המבוכים בשירתה של יונה וולך
Hanna Soker-Schwager, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“הכול כאן מולחם וחותך”– הצזורה בשירת חדווה הרכבי
Vered Shemtov & Elena Gomel, Stanford University; Tel Aviv University
Limbotopia: Being Stuck in the Continuous Present in Hebrew Literature
4.2 Literature: Hebrew Drama: Theory and Practice
Olga Levitan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
זיכרון כמופע: שולחן על פי אידה פינק – יצירתה של נעמי יואלי
Israel Hameiri, University of Haifa; Oranim College
העיבוד הדרמתי, תיאוריה ופרקטיקה: ‘אכזר מכל המלך’ ו’בגדי המלך’ מאת נסים אלוני
Day 2 (June 23, Tuesday)
Session 5: 8:30-10:15
5.1 Literature: Studies in Works by Leah Goldberg, Avot Yeshuron, Erez Biton, and Haviva Pedaya
Sara Meyer, Haifa University
יסודות ארספואטיים בספרי הילדים של לאה גולדברג
Chaya Shacham, Haifa University
“זְמַנִי חָרוּט בְשִירַי”: גלגולם של חומרי מציאות מן היומן אל השיר ביצירת לאה גולדברג
Lilach Lachman, Haifa University
‘Revealment’ and Blindness in Hebrew Poetry: Avot Yeshurun, Erez Biton and Haviva Pedaya
5.2 Language: Language, Stylistics, Translation, and Rhetoric
Aharon Gaimani, Bar-Ilan University
לשון וסגנון באיגרות בשורת הפטירה כמנהג תימן
Mohammed Alghbban, King Saud University
Literary Translation Activity between Hebrew and Arabic
Adel Shakour, Al-Qasemi Academy
מאפיינים רטוריים בשיח הפוליטי של מנהיגים ערבים במדינת ישראל
Session 6 10:45-12:30
6.1 Literature: Archeology of a Future: Treasures from Hebrew Literary
Archives
Chair and respondent: Giddon Ticotsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Raquel Stepak, Tel Aviv University
שירי יהודה עמיחי מתקופת הצבא הבריטי בהקשר לכלל יצירתו הספרותית
Maayan Gelbard-Aziza, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
הדרך שלא נבחרה: מה מספרים המחזות הגנוזים של תרצה אתר?
6.2 Literature: Politics and Ethics
Amit Assis, McGill University
ס. יזהר: פואטיקה, פוליטיקה ושמירת הטבע
Renana Keydar, Stanford University
מיתוס הרב קוליות – על המתח שבין סיפור סיפורים ועשיית צדק במשפט אייכמן
Ari Ofengenden, Brandeis University
Globalization and Biodisaster in Contemporary Literature 2000-2015
6.3 Pedagogy: Language and Thought, Language and Culture
Esther Raizen, University of Texas at Austin
מקומן של מיומנויות חשיבה מסדר גבוה בכיתות הלשון
Arielle Friedman, Oranim Academic College of Education
כלי לניתוח סמיוטי של השפה הקולנועית: ניתוח הסרט הישראלי “שש פעמים” במסגרת חינוכית
Miri Talmon, Tel Aviv University
“Films from Here”: Discourses of Locality in Modern Israeli Culture
Session 7: 2:00-4:00
7.1 Literature: Home and Homelessness in Modern Hebrew Literature
Iris Milner, Tel Aviv University
קריאת התיגר על הבית ב”והיה העקוב למישור” לעגנון
Hannah Naveh, Tel Aviv University
ביתה של עקרת הבית: נשים בבית בסיפורי “משפחה” של דבורה בארון
Michael Gluzman, Tel Aviv University
חוסר-בית, נדודים, בריחה: גנסין בארץ ישראל
Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv University
ביותו של הכוח הזר: שכול וכישלון ומגילת אסתר כמודל מגדרי פוליטי
7.2 Literature: Hebrew Press and Hebrew Culture
Orly Tsarfaty, Academic College of Emek Yezreel
המאבק על הזיכרון: השיח על השואה בעיתון החרדי “משפחה” – כמרחב לכינון זהות תרבותית נבדלת
Michal Meishar, Bar-Ilan University
כתב העת ‘גזית’ כמעצב תרבות
Moshe Pelli, University of Central Florida
דרכי עריכה וסגנון של יהושע השל שור – החלוץ
Gideon Kouts, University of Paris – 8
מלחמה ושלום בעיתון “הלבנון”
8.1 Literature: Studies in Modern Hebrew Fiction: Nathan Shaham, Tsruya
Shalev, and A.B. Yehoshua
Ayala Amir, Bar-Ilan University, The Open University of Israel
הפרטים כפי שנצטלמו אז: מרחב, מראות וזיכרון ב”שבעה מהם” וב”הם יגיעו מחר” מאת נתן שחם
Yigal Schwartz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
סיפור ההתקבלות ואמנות הסיפור של צרויה שלו
Gilead Morahg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
הגרושה המשחררת: ישן וחדש ב’’ניצבת’’ של א’’ב יהושע
8.2 Language: Early Modern Hebrew
Eran Buchaltzev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
נברא במילים – ועד הלשון העברית ככוהני השפה הלאומית
Doly Levi, Levinsky College of Education
עיון לשוני סגנוני בפיליטון “בטלנות” של אלחנן לייב לוינסקי
Keren Mock, Ecole Normale Supérieure/ Sorbonne Paris Cité
הערך המילוני “מצפון”: מקורותיו בספרייתו של אליעזר בן-יהודה
8.3 Pedagogy: Israel in Short Films: Integrating Film into the Hebrew
Language Classroom
Isaac Zablocki, Director of the Israel Film Center at JCC Manhattan
This session will feature three Award Winning Short films and conversations coming out of Israel’s blossoming film industry followed by a demonstration of how films can be best integrated into the classroom.
Day 3 (June 24, Wednesday)
Session 9: 8:30-10:30
9.1 Literature: Studies in Current Hebrew Fiction; Part I: Leah Aini’s Works
Irit Ronen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
הפואטיקה של לאה איני: שבירת הז’אנר
Ofra Matzov-Cohen, Ariel University
מעשה הנתינה ל’אחר’ ומשמעויותיו על פי הרומן ורד הלבנון מאת לאה איני
Talila Kosh-Zohar, Kibbuzim College of Education, Technology and Arts
חריגות והתנגדות: ייצוגי גוף בנובלה “בת המקום” של לאה איני
Session 10: 10:45-12:30
10.1 Literature: Studies in Current Hebrew Fiction; Part II Shimon Adaf and Merav Nakar-Sadi’s Works
Rina Baroukh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“החיתוך של האור מבעד רצף הזמן”: על האור ביצירתו בפרוזה של שמעון אדף
Hadas Shabat Nadir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
חידת האחים המתים וגילויה של תורת סוד גנוזה ממרוקו בטרילוגיה “ורד יהודה” לשמעון אדף
Nurit Buchweitz, Beit-Berl University
NIMBY, or Multicultural Inclusion in Merav Nakar-Sadi’s Oxana
10.2 Language: Proper Names, Language in Advertising
Shlomit Landman, Achva Academic College
שמות פרטיים דו-מיניים עבור יילודים במגזר היהודי במדינת ישראל
Bat-Zion Yemini, Levinsky College and Talpiot College
השמות הפרטיים המקראיים והמודרניים– בבואה של מערכות שונות של זמן-אספקט-מודוס
Irit Zeevi, Oranim Academic College of Education and Emek Yezreel Academic College & Lee Cahaner, Oranim Academic College
שפת הפרסומת החרדית לנדל”ן כמייצגת את תפיסת המקום
Session 11: 2:00-3:45
11.1 Literature: Jewish Traditions and Modern Hebrew Literature
Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, Stern College of Yeshiva University
“צדיק ורע לו”: מוטיב הצדיק בשירת אביגדור המאירי ואברהם שלונסקי
Moshe Yitzhaki, Oranim Academic College of Education
התקדשות ורליגיוזיות בחיי היום-יום: הצעה לקרוא ביצירות י.ח. ברנר כממשיך ומחדש מסורת מדרשי חז”ל
Moria Dayan-Codish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
האסתטיקה החז”לית ביצירתו של שלום יעקב אברמוביץ
11.2 Language: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Creativity, Morphology (Word Formation)
Esther Bahat, Tel Aviv University
“כשהתותחים רועמים – המוזות שותקות”. האומנם? יצירתיות בעיתונות הישראלית בתקופת מבצע “צוק איתן”
Marc Bernstein, Michigan State University
“Give Me Your Identity!”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Arab Labor
Nimrod Shatil, Zefat Academic College
מקומו של המשקל במוח של דובר העברית בן-ימינו
ToC: Israel Affairs 21.1 (2015)
Israel Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2015
This new issue contains the following articles:
Articles
Ethnic Income Disparities in Israel
Pnina O. Plaut & Steven E. Plaut
Pages: 1-26
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984418
‘Mayhew’s outcasts’: anti-Zionism and the Arab lobby in Harold Wilson’s Labour Party
James R. Vaughan
Pages: 27-47
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984420
Israel Negev Bedouin during the 1948 War: Departure and Return
Havatzelet Yahel & Ruth Kark
Pages: 48-97
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984421
Good news: the Carmel Newsreels and their place in the emerging Israeli language media
Oren Soffer & Tamar Liebes
Pages: 98-111
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984422
From ‘Rambo’ to ‘sitting ducks’ and back again: the Israeli soldier in the media
Elisheva Rosman & Zipi Israeli
Pages: 112-130
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984423
Israel and the Arab Gulf states: from tacit cooperation to reconciliation?
Yoel Guzansky
Pages: 131-147
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984424
Building partnerships between Israeli and Palestinian youth: an integrative approach
Debbie Nathan, David Trimble & Shai Fuxman
Pages: 148-164
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.984436
Book Reviews
Flexigidity: the secret of Jewish adaptability
David Rodman
Pages: 165-166
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937913
Russia and Israel in the changing Middle East
David Rodman
Pages: 166-167
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937914
Social mobilization in the Arab–Israeli war of 1948: on the Israeli home front
David Rodman
Pages: 167-169
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937915
These are my brothers: a dramatic story of heroism during the Yom Kippur War
David Rodman
Pages: 169-171
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937916
Jews and the military: a history
David Rodman
Pages: 171-173
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937917
The Jewish revolt: ad 66–74
David Rodman
Pages: 173-173
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937918
The city besieged: siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East
David Rodman
Pages: 173-175
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937919
The forgotten kingdom: the archaeology and history of northern Israel
David Rodman
Pages: 175-176
DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2014.937920
New Article: Harel, A Zionist Newspaper in Damascus during the Reign of Faysal in 1920
Harel, Yaron. “Ha-Mizrah/al-Sharq: A Zionist Newspaper in Damascus during the Reign of Faysal in 1920.” Middle Eastern Studies 50.1 (2014): 129-43.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2013.863758
DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2013.863758
Abstract
During the span of 22 months stretching from the entry of Faysal b. Husayn into Damascus in October 1918 until his expulsion at the end of July 1920, 42 newspapers and 13 journals appeared in Syria, more than half of them in Damascus. During this time, in which the press had a critical role in expressing and shaping public opinion in Syria, it became clear to the emissaries of the Zionist institutions in Damascus that they, too, needed to turn to this medium in order to spread their message. Hence, they argued that there was a need to publish a newspaper reflecting a moderate and calming outlook that would draw Arabs and Jews nearer to and increase their understanding of the Zionist idea. The result of their activities in this area saw the founding of a bilingual, Hebrew and Arabic, newspaper, called ha-Mizrah/al-Sharq (‘The East’). An examination of the only extant copies of the three issues that were printed before the newspaper ceased publication provides us with a deeper observation into the Zionist activities in Damascus during the reign of King Faysal.
New Book: Cohen, God, Jews, and the Media
Cohen, Yoel. God, Jews and the Media. Religion and Israel’s Media, Routledge Jewish studies series. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
Reviews
- Abrams, Nathan. “Review.” Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture 2.1 (2013): 4 pp.
- Shapiro, Haim. “Review.” Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, August 12, 2013.
- Madmoni-Gerber, Shoshana. “Review.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 45.3 (2013): 626-8.
- Scotton, Jim. “Review.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 90.3 (2013): 610-611.
- Rosenthal, Michelle. “Review.” (in Hebrew).
ToC: Israel Affairs 19,3 (2013)
Cite: Lachover and Bossin, , Femininity and Feminism in the Life of Hannah Semer
Lachover, Einat and Donna Bossin. “Professionalism, Femininity and Feminism in the Life of Hannah Semer (1924–2003), First Lady of Israeli Journalism.” Nashim 24 (2013): 120-38.
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nashim/v024/24.lachover.html
Abstract
Hannah Semer broke through the glass ceiling and glass walls of her profession in a way no other Israeli female journalist had done before. This paper seeks to examine Semer’s dual identities as a woman and a journalist and to analyze the nature of these two identities as evidenced in her work, by considering the following questions: What obstacles did Semer face as a woman in her profession and, more specifically, in positions assumed to be within exclusively male domains? How did she cope with these obstacles? Did she experience significant tension between the cultural definitions of femininity and of professionalism? And if she did, how did this sense of discord find expression in her work, and how did she resolve the tension and disharmony inherent in being a woman journalist? These questions are relevant to the discussion of relations between women and journalism both in Israel and worldwide.