Title From schlemiel to sabra : Zionist masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew literature / Philip Hollander

Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Series Perspectives on Israel studies Contents Introduction: A rhetoric of empowerment -- Of their time and their places: a biographical introduction to the self-evaluative writers -- Chapter 1. Holding out for a hero: crisis and the new Hebrew man -- Chapter 2. He needs a stage? : masculinity, homosociality, and the public sphere -- Chapter 3. Contested masculinity and the redemption of the Schlemiel -- Chapter 4. Homosexual panic and masculinity's advancement -- Chapter 5. Self-evaluative masculinity's interwar apex and eclipse -- Afterword: The lesson, legacy, and implications of self-evaluative masculinity Summary "In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the new Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating narratives depicting masculinity in the new state as a transition from weak, feminized schlemiels to robust, muscular, and rugged Israelis. Turning to key literary texts by S.Y. Agnon, Y.H. Brenner, L.A. Arieli, and Aharon Reuveni, Hollander reveals how gender and sexuality were intertwined to promote a specific Zionist political agenda. A Zionist masculinity grounded in military prowess could not only protect the new state but also ensure its procreative needs and future. Self-awareness, physical power, fierce loyalty to the State and devotion to the land, humility, and nurture of the young were essential qualities that needed to be cultivated in migrants to the State. By turning to the early literature of Zionist Palestine, Hollander shows how Jews strove to construct a better Jewish future"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921 -- Criticism and interpretation Arieli, L. A., 1886-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation Reuveni, A., 1886-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970 Arieli, L. A., 1886-1943 Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, 1881-1921 Reuveni, A., 1886-1971 Schlemiel, personnage fictif. Reuveni, Aharon, 1886-1971 -- Critique et interpretation. Arieli, L. A., 1886-1943 -- Critique et interpretation. Brenner, Yossef-Haïm, 1881-1921 -- Critique et interpretation. Agnon, Samuel Joseph, 1888-1970 -- Critique et interpretation. Israeli literature -- History and criticism. Masculinity in literature. Schlemiels in literature. Sabras. Zionism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern. Israeli literature Masculinity in literature Sabras Schlemiels in literature Zionism in literature Sionisme -- Dans la litterature. Sabras -- Dans la litterature. Masculinite -- Dans la litterature. Genre/Form Electronic books Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019014981 ISBN 9780253042095 0253042097 9780253042071 0253042070

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