The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma

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A dozen essays document the evolution of national myths in Israel as the heroic figures and events of independence and survival transmute into blind fanaticism, great-power manipulation, and traditional colonialism and genocide. Without passing any judgement on the changes, they delve into the meani Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Theodor Herzl: Zionist Icon, Myth-Maker, and Social Utopian Zarathustra in Jerusalem: Nietzsche and the "New Hebrews" Ben-Gurion's Mythopoetics The Zionist Right and National Liberation: From Jabotinsky to Avraham Stern The Multivocality of a National Myth: Memory and Counter-Memories of Masada Political Dimensions of Holocaust Memory in Israel "In Everlasting Memory": Individual and Communal Holocaust Commemoration in Israel Paradigms Sometimes Fit: The Haredi Response to the Yom Kippur War Isaac Rebound: The Aqedah as a Paradigm in Modern Hebrew Poetry Israel as a Post-Zionist Society The Jewish-Arab Conflict in Recent Israeli Liteture Modernity and Charisma in Contemporary Israel: The Case of Baba Sali and Baba Baruch Index