Land and Desire in Early Zionism
Boaz Neumann
Winner of the Azrieli Award for Best Book in Israel Studies This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to "the Land" of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the "new" historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings. Neumann argues for something else that historians have yet to identify--desire. Desire for the Land and a visceral identification with it begin to explain the pioneer experience and its impact on Israeli history and collective memory, as well as on Israelis' abiding connection to the Land of Israel. His close readings of archival documents, memoirs, diaries, poetry, and prose of the period develop new understandings--many of them utterly surprising--of the Zionist enterprise. For Neumann, the Zionist revolution was an existential revolution: for the pioneers, to be in the Land of Israel was to be
年:
2011
出版社:
Brandeis University Press
言語:
english
ページ:
265
ISBN 10:
1611680158
ISBN 13:
9781611680157
シリーズ:
The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
ファイル:
EPUB, 5.07 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011