Israel and its Mediterranean identity
By: David Ohana
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780230112766
Subjects: Self-perception; Political culture; Relations; Israeli National characteristics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Description: "Israel is a Mediterranean society-in-the-making. 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. How do Israelis define their collective identity in the region? Are they modern crusaders? Do they belong to the Middle East? to Europe? to the  global  village? Or perhaps they do not have to choose between the local and the global? Many Israelis could easily identify with a Mediterranean consciousness and represent a complex synthesis of east and west. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Part I: Identity * Israel Towards a Mediterranean Identity * Mediterranean Multi-Culturalism * A Bridge Over Mediterranean Water * Part II: Space * Between Levantism and Mediterranism * Mediterranean Humanism * Camus and the Israelis * Part III: Politics * Mediterraneans or Crusaders? * Mediterranean Myths * Politics of Political Despair or Mediterranean Dialogue? * Part IV: Sources * David Ben-Gurion: Israel and the Sea * Jacqueline Kahanoff: Reflections of a Levantine Jew.