{"product_id":"to-build-and-be-built-9780812239034","title":"To Build and Be Built","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Zakim follows the literary and intellectual career of the powerful Zionist slogan to build and be built from its conceptual origin in reaction to the Kishinev pogroms of 1903, when it first served as an expression of settlement aspiration, until the end of pre-state national expansion in Palestine in 1938. Draining the swamps and making the desert bloom, the Jewish settlers imagined themselves as performing miracles on the land. By these acts, they were also meant to reinvent the very notion of what it was to be a Jew in the modern world. As Jewish settlers reshaped nature in the Holy Land by turning it from one thing into another, they too were newly constructed. Zakim argues that in the period leading up to the establishment of the state of Israel, the action of working the land and building its cities in order to transform both into something essentially Jewish increasingly came to mark a turn inward toward the reclamation of a Jewish subject tied to the very soil of Palesti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A ambitious, scholarly study of the relationship between the meaning of the slogan, 'Livnot u lhibanot ba' ('To build and be built by \/ in it'-words from a popular Zionist folksong), and the actual development of the land and its people during the first four decades of the past century.\" * \u003ci\u003eAssociation of Jewish Libraries Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTo Build and Be Built\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the methodological certainties that have guided popular and academic understandings of the development of Zionist involvement in the land of Israel.\" * \u003ci\u003eLifestyles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. To Build and Be Built\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Belated Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Poetics of Malaria\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Hebrew Poet as Producer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Landscape of a Zionist Orient\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Natural History of Tel Aviv\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Land Bites Back\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405712335191,"sku":"9780812239034","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812239034.jpg?v=1730493367","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-build-and-be-built-9780812239034","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}