Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets

Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973

Oz Frankel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3626-2 (ISBN)

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In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets shows how transatlantic exchanges shaped national sentiments and private experiences in a time of great transition, forming a consumerist order, accentuating social cleavages, and transforming Jewish identities. Nevertheless, there remained lingering ambivalence about, and resistance to, American influences. Rather than growing profoundly "Americanized," Israelis forged unique paths into the American orbit. As supporters and immigrants, American Jews assumed an ambiguous role, expediting but also complicating the Israeli-American exchange.

Taking an expansive view of Israeli–American encounters, historian Oz Frankel reveals their often unexpected consequences, including the ripple effects that the rise of Black Power had on both extremes of Israeli politics, the adoption of American technology that fed the budding Israeli military-industrial complex, the consumerist ideologies that ensnared even IDF soldiers and Palestinians in the newly occupied territories, and the cultural performances that lured Israelis to embrace previously shunned diasporic culture. What made the racial strife in the US and the tensions between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel commensurable? How did an American military jet emerge as a national fixation? Why was the US considered a paragon of both spectacular consumption and restrained, rational consumerism? In ten topical chapters, this book demonstrates that the American presence in Israel back then, as it is today, was multifaceted and contradictory.

Oz Frankel is Associate Professor of History at the New School for Social Research.

Preface

Introduction

ONE Consumer Modernity and the Everyday

TWO Keeping Up with the Cohens

THREE Electioneering and the Feedback Loop

FOUR Technology Transfer: The Phantom Jet

FIVE Panthers in Black and White

SIX American Gangster in the Promised Land

SEVEN Emissaries of Liberalism in Crisis

EIGHT Back to Anatevka

NINE America on Stage

TEN The American Figure in the Israeli Mind

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	20 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5036-3626-7 / 1503636267
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3626-2 / 9781503636262
Zustand	Neuware