Birth-Throes of the Israeli Homeland : The Concept of Moledet.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: whence and whither the homeland -- Birththroes -- The father of the homeland -- Yavne or Canaan -- Territory and assimilation -- The homeland as a plurality of places -- Birththroes of the homeland, birththroes of the Messiah -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Pilgrimage to the backside of the desert -- The canonical element and the selfreferential element -- The death of the leader. Why Sde Boker? -- The first years of commemoration: the dead leader in search of an identity -- Menahem begin and the nationalizing of Ben-Gurion -- The importance of the Negev -- The distancing from the leader -- The memorial ceremony: between Zionism and cynicism -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Hebrewism that engendered the homeland -- Non-mythical Judaism -- Berdichevsky: brushing Jewish history against the grain -- Nietzsche - the banality of holiness -- A spiritual school or extended family? -- Brenner - "heretical believer" or "tragic realist"? -- Sartre and Brinker - the existentialist from there and the one from here -- Are we still secular? -- The landscape of their neighborhood -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The new Hebrews -- Between Ratosh and "Ya'ir" -- Between Ratosh and Evron -- The Canaanite idea or Hebrew identity? -- The "state of all its citizens" -- Notes -- Chapter 4: From antisemitism and anti-Zionism to Moledet -- The world of yesterday -- The Jews - the demon of Europe -- Antisemitism as a lethal obsession -- Old homeland, new antisemitism -- The historian as an intellectual -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A Levantine Moledet -- Two sisters from the Levant -- Religious existentialism -- From the Levant to Africa -- A theory of spatial identity -- The mythical aspect of Levantinism -- Levantinism in Israel as an open wound -- Epilogue or prologue? -- Notes.

Chapter 6: Israel's realms of memory -- A sociologist and his world -- Political "communities of experience" -- Living with the trauma -- Excavating the present -- The "old man" and the desert -- The privatization of commemoration -- To remember and to forget -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Settlers and the Land of the Bible -- The broader theological perspective -- Name and place -- Settlement and Canaanism -- The rise to prominence of the Bible in religious Zionism -- Back to the beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book brings forth various perspectives on the Israeli "homeland" (moledet) from various known Israeli intellectuals such as Boaz Evron, Menachem Brinker, Jacqueline Kahanoff and more. Binding together various academic fields to deal with the question of the essence of the Israeli homeland.

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