Imagined Israel(s) : : representations of the Jewish State in the arts / / edited by Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg.

• Superior document: Jewish Identities in a Changing World
• TeilnehmendeR: Giansante, Rocco,; Goldberg, Luna,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Identities in a Changing World.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)

"The return of Jews to their ancestral land can be seen as an act of imagination. A new country, citizenship, language, and institutions needed to be imagined in order to be created. The arts, too, have contributed to this act of envisioning and shaping the Jewish state. By examining artistic representations of Israel, Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts explores the ways in which the Israel imagined abroad and the one conjured within the country intersect, offering a space for the co-existence of sociopolitical, cultural, and ideological differences and tensions"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Building from the Ground up: Landscape, Language, and Culture -- The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli Identity -- Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz's Modern Jewish Art in Palestine -- Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel Aviv-Yaffo in Israeli and International Comics -- Part 2 -- Consuming Images: Israel in America -- Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American Stage -- The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American Literature -- Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren's The Great Seal and Un-Charting -- The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction -- Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish State -- Part 3 -- Within, without: Becoming Glocal -- Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein's Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in Venice -- Contemporizing (Yemenite) Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani's "Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time" Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance Theater -- A Rough, Country Face: an Iranian Intellectual Retells the Holocaust -- Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British Theater -- Part 4 -- Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined -- Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Palestinian and Israeli Parafiction Art -- Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe Stage -- Disrupting Holy Binaries: the Work of Gil and Rona Yefman -- Index.