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...Ido Ramati The article explores the phenomenon of return to Germany in contemporary Israeli cinema and argues that this return encodes a therapeutic construct for cultural healing from the traumas of forced migration and the Holocaust. Trauma studies supplies a theoretical framework...

...Or Rogovin Abstract The image of the perpetrator in Israeli Holocaust fiction changed fundamentally in the mid-1980s: from one-dimensional Nazi beasts, typical of earlier Israeli writing, to humanized individuals, whose vulnerability and multidimensionality may blur the divide between victims...

...Nitzan Lebovic This article focuses on the legal discourse of the first decade and a half of the Israeli state, from 1947 to 1961, through a close reading of texts written by the first generation of legal theorists in Israel. I show that conditions formed during that period still run our present...

...Brad Prager The documentary A Film Unfinished (2010), by the Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski, examines footage produced in 1942 that was intended for a propaganda film. The Nazis left their original production incomplete, and its fragmentary remnants are the unfinished film to which Hersonski's...

...Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann Abstract The participation of two members of the German radical Left terrorist group Revolutionary Cells turned the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis into a significant chapter of German and Israeli history. The article reviews the framing of the hijacking of a passenger plane...

... Grass evoked the 2006 scandal that had erupted around revelations of Grass’s long- standing concealment of his membership as a teenager in the Waffen-SS. Even Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not resist condemning Grass’s “shameful” moral equivalence between Israel and Iran...

... of Moznaim , a prominent journal in the cultural and academic Israeli world. Inquiring if Bartini would be interested in publishing short excerpts from it, Zemach explained, “As of now, nothing of Heidegger has been translated [into Hebrew,] since he is a ‘tough nut to crack’ [ Egoz kashe ],” adding...

... Tsahal (1994), filmed from 1991 to 1994, was a more than four-hour search for Jewish Israeli identity. Tsahal, the name of the Israeli army, is a programmatic title. “This film tells the story of the long road to the recognition of Israel through six major wars,” it says in the opening credits...

... Left has been closely linked with its fluctuating sentiments toward Israel. In the decades following World War II, the German Left concentrated on bringing otherwise suppressed attention to Germans’ culpability in the Holocaust, with numerous German-Israeli student groups forming in the 1950s and 1960s...

... : Funk and Wagnalls . Erikson Erik . 1958 . Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History . New York : Norton . Falk Avner . 2004 . Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . ffytche...

... of the NS extermination machinery.15 In advance of the trial, Eichmann’s arrest by the Israeli secret service in Argentina and his abduction to Israel were widely discussed, and the issue of whether he should be brought before the Israeli court was contested. Many observers, Arendt included...

... and Jewish culture and purged Jews from the military and security apparatus (Steinlauf, 66)—it was at least not overtly antisemitic. If “Jewish Stalinism” appeared grotesque from the vantage point of most Israeli or American Jews, the Polish Stalinist govern- ment’s claim to be the protector of Jewish...

... to protest Israeli imperialism. The turning point of the New Left’s com- plicated relation to Israel began in 1967 with the Six Days’ War, when Israel, in a preemptive strike, defeated the armies of the surrounding Arab states. Members of Germany’s center-left government, along with the conservative...

... and avenges himself with violence served tenfold. Published for a brief period (just two years) in the wake of the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, these comics spoke to an absence in conservative Israeli society that had heretofore shunned public discussion of the Holocaust and captured...

... emigra- tion to Palestine and even more so after the establishment of the Israeli state ten years later. Buber then resumed the discussion of political and theological power. He returned to the threshold between life and death, this time criticiz- ing the new Jewish state directly for ignoring...

... B. Strote  3 first glance. However, as the authors demonstrate, a vital part of the leading intelligentsia in both the West German and Israeli societies of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s began their careers in the German-speaking cultural realm of the interwar period. The two sets of thinkers...

..., remembrance, Israeli nationalism, and stunted American Jewish attempts at cultural heroics. While historically certainly the most popular of Mahler’s symphonies in the concert hall, this work, above all, has come to encapsulate some of the most heightened and problematic aspects of the Mahler...

... Theory of Myth . New York : Routledge . ———. 2016 . “Hans Blumenberg on Political Myth: Recent Publications from the Nachlass.” Iyyun: Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 65 : 3 – 34 . Ohana David . 2012 . Origins of Israeli Mythology: Neither Canaanites nor Crusaders , translated...

... parents’ past, about what was done to them under National Socialism, but on a secondary level also about what they did after emigrating to Palestine, in the run-up to and aftermath of the Israeli Declara- tion of Independence. Ethan himself embodies this split between countries and cultures: he...

... in post-reunification Berlin, new connections develop between people from different Middle Eastern countries, including Jews and Muslims, as evidenced in the Israeli author Mati Shemoelof’s reflections on Palestinian-Israeli encounters in Berlin and in the “scenes of hesitant interaction and, ultimately...