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Book SynopsisIn From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state.
Trade ReviewHollander convincingly demonstrates the role of gender and sexuality in forming the Israeli state and in doing so demonstrates the place of literature as a force in politics as much as in the formation of culture.
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Philip Hollander sheds light on developments in Hebrew literature at the turn of the twentieth century that complicate and enrich our understanding of this period. Eschewing any simple equation of literary representation with masculine role modeling, Hollander identifies a cluster of male writers as advocates for "Self-Evaluative" masculinity.
-- Anne Golomb Hoffman - Fordham University * AJS Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Translation
General 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
Selected Bibliography
Index
