Israel, the Impossible LandStanford University Press, 2003 - 294 من الصفحات What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, to trace their origins and history, and to resituate in historical terms the fertile mythology that has peopled and continues to people the Jewish imagination, interposing a screen between a people and their land. Describing the real, however, is not sufficient to disqualify the myths. The authors believe, with the famous French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, that: Things are not so simple. Myth is not opposed to the real as the false to the true; myth accompanies the real. Today, Israel is an undeniable fact and no longer has to legitimize its existence. It is in the midst of living through the crises of adulthood. The authors simply want to reconstitute and trace the genealogies of these contemporary crises. Only upon a clear understanding of this present and this past can a future be constructed. |
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The Promised Land | 7 |
The Holy Land | 34 |
The Land of Dreams | 60 |
The Exiled Land | 87 |
The Rediscovered Land | 121 |
The Recreated Land | 152 |
The Impossible Land | 195 |
The Coming of PostZionism | 212 |
Epilogue | 231 |
Notes | 250 |
Select Bibliography | 270 |
The Authors | 287 |
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Abraham agricultural aliyah ancient Arab aspirations Babylonian Talmud became Bible biblical Book Canaan Canaanites century colonies concrete conquest contemporary creation cultural desert Deut developed Diaspora dispersal divine dream earth eastern Europe Egypt emigration European evoked exile fact frontiers Galilee geographical Gush Emunim Hebrew Hibbat historians Holy Land homeland ideal identity ideological immigration inhabitants Israeli Jerusalem Jewish community Jewish history Jewish National Jewish National Fund Jewish world Jews Judah Judaism Judea Kabbalah Kabbalists land of Israel literature live Maimonides means medieval memory ment messianic Mishnah modern Moses Moshe movement myths nationalist nature non-Jewish nostalgia Palestine Palestinian period pilgrims pioneers political population post-Zionism post-Zionist Promised Land prophetic rabbinic rael reality redemption religious remained renaissance residence sacred sanctuary Second Temple secular settlement Six Day War soil spiritual symbolic territory tion Torah tradition voyage wandering West Bank Yishuv Zion Zionist