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Israeli Culture Between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance

Israeli Culture Between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0292721587
ISBN13: 9780292721586
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Over the past two decades, profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result, the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned, prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled, however, by the Palestinian uprising in 2000, which spurred at least a partial return to more traditional perceptions of homeland. Looking at Israeli literature of the late twentieth century, Yaron Peleg shows how a young, urban class of Israelis felt alienated from the Zionist values of their forebears, and how they adopted a form of escapist romanticism as a defiant response that replaced traditional nationalism.

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