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The Words and the Land - Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth (Paperback)
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The Words and the Land - Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth (Paperback)
Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
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How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths
of a Jewish state. The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived
before the organization of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth
century and continued long after the creation of the state of
Israel. In The Words and the Land, post-Zionist Israeli historian
Shlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals
contributed to this process. One by one, he identifies and calls
into question the foundation myths of the Israeli state, beginning
with the myth of a people forcibly uprooted, a people-race that
began to wander the world in search of a land of asylum. This was a
people that would define itself on a biological and
"mythological-religious" basis, embodied in words that today feed
Israeli political, literary, and historical writing: "exile,"
"return," and "ascent" (Alyah) to the land of its origins. Since
1948, most intellectuals in Israel have continued to accept this
ethno-national image and embrace an exclusive state identity to
which only Jewish people can belong. The first challenges to this
dominant idea didn't appear in Israel until the 1980s, in the
innovative work of the "post-Zionist" historians, who were bent on
dismantling the nationalist historical myth and arguing for a state
that would belong equally to all its citizens. Analyzing how
Israeli intellectuals positioned themselves during the Gulf War and
in the new era of communication technologies, Sand extends his
analysis globally, looking at the status of intellectuals in all
societies.
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