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Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert
Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical skepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination #2)
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 t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture
The year 1978 marked Israel's entry into Lebanon, which led to the long-term military occupation of non-sovereign territory and the long, costly war in Lebanon. In the years that followed, many Israelis found themselves alienated from the idea that their country used force only when there was no alt... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Cary Nelson • Peter C. Herman • Alan Dowty • P. R. Kumaraswamy • Joel S. Migdal • Liora R. Halperin • Philip Metres • Caitlin Carenen • Jacob Lassner • Shiri Goren • Rachel S. Harris • Ranen Omer-Sherman • Amy Weiss • Mira Sucharov • Umut Uzer • Janice W. Fernheimer • Martin Shichtman • Ashley Passmore • Donna R. Divine • Adia Mendelson-Maoz • Marcela Sulak • Ellen W. Kaplan • Beverly Bailis • Marilyn R. Tayler • Randall G. Rogan • Oren Kroll-Zeldin • Russell A. Berman • Shayna Weiss • Olga Gershenson • Holli Levitsky • Terri Susan Fine • Husam Mohamad • Menna Abukhadra • Rachel Feldhay Brenner • Jeffrey Bloodworth • Ari Ariel • Mya Guarnieri Jaradat • Susan Jacobowitz • Rolin G. Mainuddin • Randy DeshazoThe Arab-Israeli conflict has become a touchstone of international politics and a flash point on college campuses. And yet, how do faculty teach such a contentious topic in class? Taught not only in international relations, peace and conflict resolution, politics and history, and Israel and Middle ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019