Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53007-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Jewish Identities in a Changing World

The return of Jews to their ancestral land can be seen as an act of imagination. A new country, citizenship, language, and institutions needed to be imagined in order to be created. The arts, too, have contributed to this act of envisioning and shaping the Jewish state. By examining artistic representations of Israel, Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts explores the ways in which the Israel imagined abroad and the one conjured within the country intersect, offering a space for the co-existence of sociopolitical, cultural, and ideological differences and tensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giansante, Rocco

Goldberg, Luna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction

Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg

Part 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture

1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli Identity

Guy Eldar

2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz Yisrael

Noa Avron Barak

3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International Comics

Ofer Berenstein

Part 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America

4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American Stage

Ellen W. Kaplan

5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American Literature

Samantha Pickette

6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-Charting

Chelsea Haines

7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction

Reeva Spector Simon

8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish State

Rocco Giansante

Part 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal

9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in Venice

Luna Goldberg

10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance Theater

Idit Suslik

11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the Holocaust

Samuel Thrope

12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British Theater

Glenda Abramson

Part 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined

13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian Art

Keren Goldberg

14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe Stage

Jacob Hellman

15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona Yefman

Yarden Stern

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rocco Giansante, Ph.D (2019) is a film scholar. He has written, among other things, about transnational Israeli cinema and Nanni Moretti. He currently works at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.

Luna Goldberg, M.A. (2018) is a curator, author, and museum educator, specializing in contemporary art and identity politics. She currently serves as the education manager at Florida International University’s Jewish Museum of Florida and The Wolfsonian.