| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: A home away from home: the problem of diaspora -- 1. Zion in the diaspora: alternative histories, alternative homelands -- 2. American Hebrew: the transnational Israeli novel in the twenty-first century -- 3. Hebrew in English: translingual Israeli literature -- 4. Haunted dreams: exile and return in the work of Yael Bartana -- 5. The neue diaspora: Diasporic Hebrew in Berlin -- Conclusion: Pandemic as metaphor |
| Summary |
"This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora has become a popular mechanism to imagine non-sovereign models of Jewish peoplehood, but these models often valorize powerlessness in sometimes troubling ways. In this book, Melissa Weininger theorizes a new category of "diaspora Israeli culture" that is formed around and through notions of homeland and complicate the binary between diaspora and Israel. The works addressed here inhabit and imagine diaspora from the vantage point of the putative homeland, engaging both diasporic and Zionist models simultaneously through language, geography, and imagination. These examples contend with the existence of the state of Israel and its complex implications for diaspora Jewish identities and nationalisms, as well as the implications for Zionism of those diasporic conceptions of Jewish national identity. This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Melissa Weininger is assistant professor of Jewish studies at California State University, Northridge |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jewish diaspora.
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Jewish diaspora in literature.
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Jewish diaspora -- Art
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Jewish nationalism.
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Jewish nationalism -- Art
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Jews -- Identity.
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Nationalism -- Israel -- Art
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Jewish diaspora
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814350614 |
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0814350615 |
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