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From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity

By: Yonatan Mendel,Ronald Ranta

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From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity

By: Yonatan Mendel,Ronald Ranta

This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and culture, showing that it is impossible to understand modern Israeli national identity and culture without taking into account its crucial encounter and dialectical relationship with the Arab-Palestinian indigenous 'Other'. Based on extensive and original primary sources, including archival research, memoirs, advertisements, cookbooks and a variety of cultural products – from songs to dance steps – From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self sheds light on an important cultural and ideational diffusion that has occurred between the Zionist settlers – and later the Jewish-Israeli population – and the indigenous Arab-Palestinian people in Historical Palestine. By examining Israeli food culture, national symbols, the Modern Hebrew language spoken in Israel, and culture, the authors trace the journey of Israeli national identity and culture, in which Arab-Palestinian culture has been imitated, adapted and celebrated, but strikingly also rejected, forgotten and denied. Innovative in approach and richly illustrated with empirical material, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, historians and scholars of cultural and Middle Eastern studies with interests in the development and adaptation of culture, national thought and identity.

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1317131703

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Indebted

Capitalism and Religion in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon

By: Yonatan Sagiv

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Capitalism and Religion in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon

By: Yonatan Sagiv

Indebted: Capitalism and Religion in the Writings of S. Y. Agnon is the first book to examine the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 1966 Nobel laureate in literature, through a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and Jewish and religious studies. Sagiv outlines the vital role economy plays in the construction of religion, subjectivity, language, and thought in Agnon's work, and, accordingly, explores his literary use of images of debt, money, and economy to examine how these themes illuminate other focal points in the canonical author's work, excavating the economic infrastructure of discourses that are commonly considered to reside beyond the economic sphere. Sagiv's analysis of Agnon's work, renowned for its paradoxical articulation of the impact of modernity on traditional Jewish society, exposes an overarching distrust regarding the sustainability of any economic structure. The concrete and symbolic economies surveyed in this project-monetary, divine, semiotic, libidinal and literary-are prone to cyclical crises. Under what Sagiv terms Agnon's "law of permanent debt," the stability and profitability of economies are always temporary. Agnon's literary economy, transgressing traditional closures, together with his profound irony, make it impossible to determine if these economic crises are indeed the product of the break with tradition, or, alternatively, if this theodicy is but a fantasy, marking permanent debt as the inherent economic infrastructure of human existence. Many of the author's narrators and characters, be they more or less religious, distrust money. Unlike romantic ideas of art's transcendence, the monetary sign does not enable one to entertain thoughts of an ideal truth. Georg Simmel's famous description of "the metaphysical quality of money" elucidates the moment when money transforms from a means to an end in an all-pervasive monetary economy, thereby establishing a world of radical exchangeability. As such, money, as "exchangeability personified," dictates a world devoid of eternal and intrinsic values. Sagiv argues that this is precisely what troubles Agnon, both as a religious thinker and as a modern writer.

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Hebrew Union College Press

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0822981505

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9780822981503

Critique of Halakhic Reason

Divine Commandments and Social Normativity

By: Assistant Professor of Modern Judaism Yonatan Y Brafman,Yonatan Y. Brafman

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Critique of Halakhic Reason

Divine Commandments and Social Normativity

By: Assistant Professor of Modern Judaism Yonatan Y Brafman,Yonatan Y. Brafman

Critique of Halakhic Reason challenges prevalent ways of thinking about religion by revealing how religious traditions and communities reason about their practices. It examines the reasoning operative in the justification and jurisprudence of the Jewish commandments through fresh studies of twentieth century Jewish thinkers. It then constructs a novel account of the relation between Jewish thought and law in view of contemporary moral philosophy and legal theory. It then develops its consequences for theology, the study and philosophy of religion, as well as for moral, legal, and political philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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0197767931

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From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity

By: Yonatan Mendel,Ronald Ranta

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Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity

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The Creation of Israeli Arabic

Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel

By: Y. Mendel

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The Creation of Israeli Arabic

Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel

By: Y. Mendel

This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction. Due to its interdisciplinary nature it will be of great interest to academics and researchers in security and middle eastern studies as well as those focused on language and linguistics.

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1137337370

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From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

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Indebted

Critique of Halakhic Reason

Critique of Halakhic Reason

From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self

The Creation of Israeli Arabic

The Creation of Israeli Arabic

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