Description for Eros and Tragedy
Hardcover. Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 522.
Between 1920 and 1922, hundreds of members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement left the defunct Habsburg Monarchy and sailed to Palestine, where a small group of members of the movement established Upper Bitania, one of the communities that laid the foundation for Israel’s kibbutz movement. Their social experiment lasted only eight months, but it gave birth to a powerful myth among Jewish youth which combined a story about a heroic Zionist deed, based on the trope of tragedy, with a model for a new type of community that promised no less than a total, absolute elimination of all physical ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235858
SKU
V9781936235858
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About Ofer Nur
Ofer Nordheimer Nur is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies and the Gender and Womena (TM)s Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in history at UCLA in 2004, won a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre d'Etudes Juives at the EHESS in Paris and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the Franz Rosenzweig ... Read more
Reviews for Eros and Tragedy
"This riveting and thought provoking study refreshingly challenges the conventional wisdom on the origins of Zionism. Meticulously researched and forcefully argued, Israel's self-image as a country of the 'new man' reflected in the image of Paul Newman, emerges to be deeply rooted in the inner need of Zionist pioneers to reinvent themselves as 'real men'. Many Israelis still do that." ... Read more