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The Sabra - The Creation of the New Jew (Hardcover)
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The Sabra - The Creation of the New Jew (Hardcover)
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The Sabras were the first Israelis--the first generation, born in
the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in
Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist
labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav,
they turned the dream of their pioneer forebears into the reality
of the new State of Israel. While the Sabras made up a small
minority of the new society's population, their cultural influence
was enormous. Their ideals, their love of the land, their
recreational culture of bonfires and singalongs, their adoption of
Arab accessories, their slang and gruff, straightforward manner,
together with a reserved, almost puritanical attitude toward
individual relationships, came to signify the cultural fulfillment
of the utopian ideal of a new Jew. Oz Almog's lively, methodical,
and convincing portrayal of the Sabras addresses their lives,
thought, and role in Jewish history. The most comprehensive study
of this exceptional generation to date, "The Sabra" provides a
complex and unflinching analysis of accepted norms and an
impressive appraisal of the Sabra, one that any examination of new
Israeli reality must take into consideration.
The Sabras became Palmach commanders, soldiers in the British
Brigade, and, later, officers in the Israel Defense Forces. They
served as a source of inspiration and an object of emulation for an
entire society. Almog's source material is rich and varied: he uses
poems, letters, youth movement and army newsletters, and much more
to portray the Sabras' attitudes toward the Arabs, war, nature,
work, agriculture, cooperation, and education. In any event, the
Sabra remained central to the founding myth of the nation, the real
Israeli, against whom later generations will be judged. Almog's
pioneering book juxtaposes the myths against the realities and, in
the process, limns a collective profile that brilliantly
encompasses the complex forces that shaped this remarkable
generation.
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