Secularizing the sacred : : aspects of Israeli visual culture / / by Alec Mishory.

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies; volume65
• VerfasserIn: Mishory, Alec,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies; volume65.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 407 pages) :; illustrations (some color)

As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgement
• Illustrations
• Note on Terms and Transliteration
• Introduction
• Before Statehood
• The Clarion Call: E. M. Lilien and the Jewish Renaissance
• Boris Schatz’s Pantheon of Zionist Cultural Heroes
• “The Garden of Love”: Early Zionist Eroticism
• Zionist Revival and Rebirth on the Façade of the Municipal School in Tel Aviv
• Objects and Conceptions of Sovereignty
• Israel’s Scroll of Independence
• Hues of Heaven: the Israeli Flag
• Menorah and Olive Branches on Israel’s National Emblem
• From Exile to Homeland: the Mythical Journey of the Temple Menorah
• Zionism Liberates the Captured Daughter of Zion
• The Twelve Tribes of Israel: from Biblical Symbolism to Emblems of a Mythical Promised Land
• Old and New in Land of Israel Flora
• Ancient Magic and Modern Transformation: the Unique Hebrew Alphabet
• Sculptural Commemoration within the Israeli Public Space
• From Pilgrimage Site to Military Marching Grounds: Theodor Herzl’s Gravesite in Jerusalem
• Natan Rapoport’s Soviet Style of the Yad Mordechai and Negba Memorials
• Holocaust and Resurrection in Yigal Tumarkin’s Memorial in Tel Aviv
• In Conclusion: Secularizing the Sacred, Israeli Art, and Jewish Orthodox Laws
• Back Matter
• General Index.