Land and desire in early Zionism /
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| Author / Creator: | Neumann, Boaz, 1971-2015. |
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| Uniform title: | Teshuḳat ha-ḥalutsim. English |
| Imprint: | Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Schusterman series in Israel studies Schusterman series in Israel studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256274 |
| Summary: | This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to "the Land" of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the "new" historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings. Neumann argues for something else that historians have yet to identify--desire. Desire for the Land and a visceral identification with it begin to explain the pioneer experience and its impact on Israeli history and collective memory, as well as on Israelis' abiding connection to the Land of Israel. His close readings of archival documents, memoirs, diaries, poetry, and prose of the period develop new understandings--many of them utterly surprising--of the Zionist enterprise. For Neumann, the Zionist revolution was an existential revolution: for the pioneers, to be in the Land of Israel was to be! |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611680157 1611680158 158465967X 9781584659679 1584659688 9781584659686 |