Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity [electronic resource] /
Ohana, D.author.
This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country.
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Cover; Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity; Contents; Preface; Part I: Identity; 1: A Bridge over Troubled Water; A Window to the Mediterranean; The Mediterranean Moment; Can They See the Sea?; A Place in the Mediterranean Sun; 2: Multiculturalism or Dialogue?; Hebron as an Example; Israel Itemizes; A Time of Dialogue; Part II: Region; 3: Mediterranean Humanism; The Inspiration; Albert Memmi; Tahar Ben-Jelloun; Jorge Semprún; Najib Mahfouz; Edmond Jabès; S. Yizhar and Albert Camus; A Man and His Fate; 4: Levantinism as a Cultural Theory; Imagined Levantinism; Part III: Culture
5: A Man in the SunThe Myth of Prometheus; The Refusal to Be Afflicted by the Gods; From Nihilism to Humanism; The Critique of Totalitarianism; The Ethic of Limits; 6: Camus and the Israelis; Camus and the Jews; Camus in Israel; Part IV: Politics; 7: The Politics of Political Despair; "Canaanite Messianism"; "The Black Brigades"; 8: Where East Meets West; East Meets West; Mediterranean Architecture; The Mediterranean Option in Action; East Confronts West; Part V: Memory; 9: A la Recherche du Temps Marocain Perdu; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country.
Middle East—Politics and government.
International relations.
Middle East—History.
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Middle Eastern Politics.
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History of the Middle East.
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Political Science.