Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between
literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors.
Exploring the use of photography-both as a textual element and
through the ...inclusion of actual images- Amihay shows how the
presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a
powerful subversive function. Contemporary Hebrew authors have
turned to photography as a tool to disrupt narratives and give
voice to marginalized sectors in Israel, including women,
immigrants, Mizrahi Israelis, LGBTQ+ individuals, second-generation
Holocaust survivors, and traumatized army veterans. Amihay
discusses standard novels alongside graphic novels, challenging the
dominance of the written word in literature. In addition to
providing a poetic analysis of imagetext pages, Amihay addresses
the social and political issues authors are responding to,
including gender roles, Zionism, the ethnic divide in Israel, and
its Palestinian minority. In exploring these avant-garde novels and
their authors, Amihay elevates their significance and calls for a
more expansive definition of canonical Hebrew literature.
Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish Diaspora/Israel relationship and suggests that instead of looking at Diaspora Jews’ ...relationship with Israel as a matter of loyalty, it is one of obligation. Baron develops an outline for a theory of transnational political obligation and, in the process, provides an alternative way to understand and explore the Diaspora/Israel relationship than one mired in partisan debates about whether or not being a good Jew means supporting Israel. He concludes by arguing that critique of Israel is not just about Israeli policy, but about what it means to be a Diaspora Jew.
Naziv židovske države proglašene u Tel Avivu 14. svibnja 1948. do samoga je trenutka proglašenja bio nepoznat javnosti. Ime Izrael u povijesti Jišuva i sekularnog cionizma pojavljivalo se uglavnom u ...smislu Erec Izrael što je biblijski naziv koji se okvirno odnosi na područje Palestine. Drugdje u tekstovima vezanima za cionistički pokret, poput Herzlove raspravnice Der Judenstaat, rabila se sintagma »židovska država«, a u prvome važnom nežidovskom dokumentu, Balfourovoj deklaraciji iz 1917., »nacionalni dom židovskoga naroda«. Tek nakon što je David Ben-Gurion pročitao izraelsku Deklaraciju o nezavisnosti, naziv Izrael za novoosnovanu židovsku državu u Palestini postao je općepoznat. Premda nije bio očekivan, taj naziv ne samo da je odmah zaživio, nego je i među Židovima i među nežidovima shvaćen kao ime koje se podrazumijeva. U ovome je članku opisano povijesno značenje pojma Izrael, ponuđeno je objašnjenje njegove odsutnosti u cionističkom nazivlju prije trenutka proglašenja Države Izrael, te je predstavljena pretpostavka da je Ben-Gurion bio ključna osoba za nadijevanje imena novoosnovanoj židovskoj državi.
Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.
The "Voice of Silence" is the personal story of an underground Hebrew teacher in the communist Soviet Union who was sentenced to prison after false claims by the KGB. He kept a hunger strike for 207 ...days to draw international solidarity. But his book is more than exotic memoir literature. It is a vivid, touching and thoughtful account of his Jewish spiritual growth, a painful discovery of the most subtle inner aspects of faith.
The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative ...thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli forces halted the Egyptian troops on the Sinai Peninsula, Major General Ariel Sharon seized the opportunity to counterattack. He split the Egyptian army and cut off its supply lines in a maneuver known as Operation Stouthearted Men. Sharon's audacious, controversial decision defied his superiors and produced a major victory, which many believe helped win the war for Israel. At the Decisive Point in the Sinai is a firsthand account of the Yom Kippur War's most intense engagement by key leaders in Sharon's division. Jacob Even, deputy division commander of the 143rd Division, and Simcha Maoz, a staff officer, recount the initial stages of the Suez crossing, examine the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) response to Egypt's surprise attack, and explain Sharon's role in the transition from defense to offense. They detail Sharon's struggle to convince his superiors of his plan and argue that an effective division commander is revealed not only by his leadership of subordinates, but also by his ability to influence his senior officers. The strategic failure of the Israeli high command during the Yom Kippur War has been widely studied, but At the Decisive Point in the Sinai is one of the few works to examine the experiences of field-level commanders. Even and Maoz challenge students of military leadership by offering a case study on effective generalship.
What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? ...Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices. Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.
A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the
divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers
a path to bridging the divide Zionism began as a movement
full of ...contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to
forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation,
between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish
to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between
religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their
heritage-without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In
this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah Goodman explores Israeli
Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of
the major causes of political polarization throughout the world.
Revisiting traditional religious sources and seminal works of
secularism, he reveals that each contains an openness to learn from
the other's messages. Goodman challenges both orthodoxies,
proposing a new approach to bridge the divide between religion and
secularism and pave a path toward healing a society torn asunder by
extremism.
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