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Book SynopsisThe return of Jews to their ancestral land can be seen as an act of imagination. A new country, citizenship, language, and institutions needed to be imagined in order to be created. The arts, too, have contributed to this act of envisioning and shaping the Jewish state. By examining artistic representations of Israel, Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts explores the ways in which the Israel imagined abroad and the one conjured within the country intersect, offering a space for the co-existence of sociopolitical, cultural, and ideological differences and tensions.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg Part 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture 1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli Identity Guy Eldar 2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz Yisrael Noa Avron Barak 3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International Comics Ofer Berenstein Part 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America 4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American Stage Ellen W. Kaplan 5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American Literature Samantha Pickette 6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-Charting Chelsea Haines 7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction Reeva Spector Simon 8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish State Rocco Giansante Part 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal 9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in Venice Luna Goldberg 10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance Theater Idit Suslik 11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the Holocaust Samuel Thrope 12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British Theater Glenda Abramson Part 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined 13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian Art Keren Goldberg 14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe Stage Jacob Hellman 15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona Yefman Yarden Stern Index
