Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination. Imagining the Kibbutz : : Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film / / Ranen Omer-Sherman.
In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 18 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 Trepidation and Exultation in Early Kibbutz Fiction
- 2 “With a Zealot’s Fervor” Individuals Facing the Fissures of Ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban
- 3 The Kibbutz and Its Others at Midcentury Palestinian and Mizrahi Interlopers in Utopia
- 4 Late Disillusionments and Village Crimes Th e Kibbutz Mysteries of Batya Gur and Savyon Liebrecht
- 5 From the 1980s to 2010 Nostalgia and the Revisionist Lens in Kibbutz Film
- Afterword Between Hope and Despair Th e Legacy of the Kibbutz Dream in the Twenty-First Century
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index