{"product_id":"secularizing-the-sacred-aspects-of-israeli-visual-culture-9789004405264","title":"Secularizing the Sacred: Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion.” Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Note on Terms and Transliteration  Introduction    Part 1: Before Statehood  1 The Clarion Call: E. M. Lilien and the Jewish Renaissance   1.1 Life, Heroism, and Beauty   1.2 Lilien’s Winged Figures   1.3 Restrained Decadence: Jewish Angels   1.4 Olympus and Golgotha in the Service of Zionism    2 Boris Schatz’s Pantheon of Zionist Cultural Heroes   2.1 A Day Dream   2.2 A New Florence   2.3 A Hebrew Pantheon: Individual Commemoration   2.4 Collective Commemoration   2.5 Schatz’s Legacy: Models for a Sovereign State Heroes    3 “The Garden of Love”: Early Zionist Eroticism   3.1 The Garden of Love: A Remedial Institution for Nervous Atrophy   3.2 In the Song of Songs Pavilion   3.3 The New Jew: Intellect and Sensuality Combined   3.4 Kisses and Embraces   3.5 Orientalism and Symbolism in the Zionist-Biblical World   3.6 The Secular Bride    4 Zionist Revival and Rebirth on the Façade of the Municipal School in Tel Aviv   4.1 Past and Present Come Together   4.2 Four Hebrew Cities    Part 2: Objects and Conceptions of Sovereignty  5 Israel’s Scroll of Independence    6 Hues of Heaven: The Israeli Flag   6.1 The Zionist Flag   6.2 The Magen David (David’s Shield) or the Jewish Star   6.3 The Blue Stripes   6.4 First Proposals for an Israeli Flag   6.5 A Multitude of King David’s Shields    7 Menorah and Olive Branches on Israel’s National Emblem   7.1 In Search of a National Emblem   7.2 Archaeology and Socialism: Jewish Tradition versus Secularism   7.3 The Shamir Brothers Studio’s Proposal   7.4 Prophet Zecharia’s Vision: Harmony between State and Church   7.5 A Visual Precedent from 1300   7.6 Public Reactions to the Design of the National Emblem    8 From Exile to Homeland: the Mythical Journey of the Temple Menorah   8.1 An Icon of Destruction   8.2 The Arch of Titus: A Symbol of Destruction and Exile   8.3 “Oh Titus, Titus, If You Could Only See!”   8.4 The Menorah Returns Home   8.5 A Miraculous Translocation   8.6 A Gift from the Mother of Parliaments to the New Israeli Parliament   8.7 Benno Elkan: A Self-Anointed Modern Bezalel   8.8 The Menorah’s Penultimate Station on Its Way Home: Kssalon Settlement   8.9 Visual References to the Israeli Menorah Motif    9 Zionism Liberates the Captured Daughter of Zion   9.1 The Judaea capta Coin   9.2 Jewish References to the Roman Judaea capta Coin   9.3 From Judaea capta to Judaea liberata   9.4 The Judaea capta Image on Official Israeli Publications   9.5 A Late Israeli Daughter of Zion    10 The Twelve Tribes of Israel: From Biblical Symbolism to Emblems of a Mythical Promised Land   10.1 The Twelve Tribes of Israel: Symbolizing the Unity and Diversity of the Jewish People   10.2 Biblical and Midrashim Sources   10.3 Verbal Turned Visual: Heraldic Emblems of the Twelve Tribes   10.4 From Christian Bibles to Jewish Synagogue Decorations   10.5 E. M. Lilien’s Legacy   10.6 Beyond Lilien’s Legacy   10.7 Symbols of Sovereignty   10.8 Emblems of a Mythical Promised Land    11 Old and New in Land of Israel Flora   11.1 Israeli Plants as Local Icons   11.2 Familiar Biblical Plants: The Seven Kinds   11.3 The Four Species   11.4 Grapes, Figs, and Pomegranates as Symbols of Sovereignty   11.5 The Spies Motif   11.6 The New Jew as a Tiller of the Soil   11.7 Herzl’s Cypress Tree Myth   11.8 Unfamiliar Wild Plants   11.9 “A Very Lovely Cyclamen”   11.10 “We Shall Return as Red Flowers”   11.11 “Nobody Understands Cyclamens Anymore”   11.12 Local Plants Revisited   11.13 A Symbol Shared by Two Peoples: The Israeli Cactus    12 Ancient Magic and Modern Transformation: The Unique Hebrew Alphabet   12.1 Hebrew Calligraphy   12.2 Hebrew Typography   12.3 Hebrew Typography in Israeli Design   12.4 Uses of the Hebrew Alphabet in Non-textual Israeli Visual Media    Part 3: Sculptural Commemoration within the Israeli Public Space  13 From Pilgrimage Site to Military Marching Grounds: Theodor Herzl’s Gravesite in Jerusalem   13.1 Herzl’s Coffin Brought to Tel Aviv   13.2 Herzl’s Burial Ceremony in Jerusalem   13.3 International Competition for Herzl’s Burial Site Design   13.4 Winner of the Competition: Yosef Klarwein’s Design   13.5 Runner-up Prize: Danziger and Shalgi’s Design   13.6 The Committee for Herzl’s Burial Site Doubts Its Own Decisions   13.7 Herzl’s Tomb Final Design and Unveiling    14 Natan Rapoport’s Soviet Style of the Yad Mordechai and Negba Memorials   14.1 Ghetto Heroism and Israeli Valor   14.2 The Yad Mordechai Memorial   14.3 The Negba Memorial    15 Holocaust and Resurrection in Yigal Tumarkin’s Memorial in Tel Aviv   15.1 Is It Possible to Render the Holocaust Visually?   15.2 The International Committee, Auschwitz   15.3 Israeli Holocaust Memorials at Yad Vashem   15.4 The Memorial to the Holocaust and the Resurrection of Israel    16 In Conclusion: Secularizing the Sacred, Israeli Art, and Jewish Orthodox Laws   16.1 The Hebrew Bible: A Spring Abundant with Narratives and Allegorical Figures   16.2 A Visual Discourse with Jewish Artists from the Past   16.3 Israeli “Graven Images”   16.4 Hybrids   16.5 Jewish Angels and Israeli Cherubs   16.6 Taharah and tum’ah (Purity and Impurity)  General Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210779025751,"sku":"9789004405264","price":178.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/secularizing-the-sacred-aspects-of-israeli-visual-culture-9789004405264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}