...-Jewish other. In the fictional creations of Ismael/David and Amir/Yonatan, Abulhawa and Kashua, respectively, construe characters whose existence blurs the borderline between various versions of today's Palestinian Arab and mainstream projections of its Israeli-Jewish counterpart. These characters...

... there is such an unclear ‘religious awakening.’ I don’t think this is the way to ‘clean house’. It’s as if we said ‘Given that Israeliness is already so fifthly, let’s go back to Judaism,’ which is presented as a pure space of empathy, ethics and respect for the other. [I think it comes from] a longing for a state...

... an “identity card” —a doc- ument issued by the Israeli government to control residency and regulate, among other things, the movement of Palestinians — reinforces the barrier between the narrator and her hosts, and so prevents any shared process of mourning. The endeavor to find a photo...

... the native into existence and who perpetuates that existence. —Frantz Fanon Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann in Jerusalem , relates Adolf Eichmann’s kidnapping and execution by the Israeli state to his “de facto statelessness”: In other words, and despite pages and pages of legal argument, based on so...

... the Israeli Arab/Palestinian is created as a national minority who as such is also (and necessarily so) a traitor, an inauthentic Palestinian, a wannabe Jew, in short, a failed identity. Indeed, Kashua's insistence on his “Israeliness” (by writing in Hebrew, referring to himself as an Israeli Arab...

.../life/books/the-israeli-nomad-in-search-of-the-promised-land-1.378547 . 30 May 2015 . Jameson Fredric . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . Verso , 2007 . Jameson Fredric . Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism...

... of these ghosts in the development of modern Hebrew literature and contemporary Israeli culture provides the subject of Karen Grumberg’s illuminating, revelatory critical study Hebrew Gothic . Because it has been tied for more than a century to the development of a national culture, forged primarily through...

... of the category of fiction in Hebrew criticism. 19 Two other factors that helped shape the novel’s reception are its appeal to Canaanite sentiments and the tendency to read Israeli works that deal with the pre-State period in sentimental terms. 20 Shammas often distinguishes between what he calls “Jewish...

...: Palestinian and Jewish Israelis would probably fully understand the humor, whereas exiled Palestinians and other readers in the Arab world might need to make more of an effort. Perhaps an even greater effort still awaits other interested readers. Yet this difference is merely a difference of degree...

... are not immediately clear. To whom or to what is she offering the baby? What is the nature of this new covenant? On the one hand, Dolly is clearly reluctant to give up Son to Pan-T and their pointless military escapades. On the other, she herself binds Son to the national ethos by carving the map of Israel on his...

... be taken in adherence with Israeli law ( Nasser 260 ; Makhoul 13 ). However, by failing to halt continued Israeli land expropriation and settlement construction, among other failures, the accords stymied the conditions necessary to implement their primary goal of establishing a Palestinian state ( Zreik...

... in Goldberg's play and Edgar Allan Poe's “Masque of the Red Death” (1842) to expose a shared conceptualization of the relationship between art and the real: the aesthetic sanctuary, designed to exclude time and other agents of the real, is nevertheless subject to and even dependent on its trespass. In light...

... poet Chayim Nachman Bialik famously described as “a match made in heaven” was perceived as a failed, if not inappropriate, relationship by many of his peers. As the lines quoted above —​from a longer and painful poem by the Polish-born Israeli poet Avot Yeshurun —​suggest, the tension that stood...

... fights passionately and aggressively against Israeli injustices towards the Pales- tinians. Like the earlier tragic heroes of Hebrew letters, she confronts and com- prehends the suffering of others and bears responsibility for them; yet, unlike these heroes, she exchanges the bonds of kinship...

...,” “realistic,” and “rational-enlightened” community. Yet, on the other hand, messianism was also reinterpreted as the basis for a national “secular” myth, with Zionism (“the utopian return”) as its fulfillment, and Israeli secular culture is based on the notion that the state is the realization...

...Sami Shalom Chetrit In this essay I offer a radical Mizrahi reading of the poetry of the Ashkenazi Zionist poet Haim Nahman Bialik—that is, a reading that examines Jewish and Israeli history and culture through the radical Mizrahi discourse that has evolved in Israel during the past generation...

... of discussions about the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis: namely, that the two are continually imagined as ineluctably different, opposed in their very radical otherness, when in fact they have much in common: shared histories and proximate and overlapping ethnicity(ies). In the Zionist...

... of discussions about the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis: namely, that the two are continually imagined as ineluctably different, opposed in their very radical otherness, when in fact they have much in common: shared histories and proximate and overlapping ethnicity(ies). In the Zionist...

... of discussions about the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis: namely, that the two are continually imagined as ineluctably different, opposed in their very radical otherness, when in fact they have much in common: shared histories and proximate and overlapping ethnicity(ies). In the Zionist...

... of discussions about the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis: namely, that the two are continually imagined as ineluctably different, opposed in their very radical otherness, when in fact they have much in common: shared histories and proximate and overlapping ethnicity(ies). In the Zionist...