Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine

Normalizing Stress

Vered Weiss, Irit Ronen, Avner Dinur (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-5386-4 (ISBN)

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Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress explores the ways stress associated with a prolonged state of war, traumas, and emergency routine produces Israeli culture. Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine exposes the ways Israeli “emergency routine” leads to perpetual stress and trauma that are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of Israeli art and literature. The nine chapters engage with a variety of Israeli cultural artifacts, including poetry, prose, film and graphic novels, and cast a wide temporal net, reaching from as early as the 1960s to 2019. In doing so, the collection sheds light upon the ramifications of the constant stress of the Israeli emergency routine on academic and cultural discourses and alerts us to be attentive to the effects of the physical world on the formulation of our world view within our social and political reality.

Vered Weiss is the Serling Israeli Visiting Scholar and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University. Avner Dinur is lecturer of Jewish studies at Sapir College. Irit Ronen is PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a teaching fellow at the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at Sapir Academic College.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Introduction: Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine

Irit Ronen, Avner Dinur, Vered Weiss

Chapter 1. The State of Emergency and the Ethos: The Poetry of Aharon Shabtai

Irit Ronen

Chapter 2. Monstrous Memory: Memory and Marginality in To the End of the Land by David

Grossman and Jorge Luis Borges’ “Funes el Memorioso”

Vered Weiss

Chapter 3. Stress, Repression, and Humor in Israeli Comics: The Cases of Rutu Modan and

Gilad Seliktar

Ilaria Stiller

Chapter 4. Rockets, Turtles, and the Political Abyss: Hebrew Literature from the Gaza Envelope

Nirit Kurman

Chapter 5. Facing the Chaos: Contemporary Israeli Literature (Re)Acting to Uncertain Times

Omri Herzog and Nurith Gertz

Chapter 6. “I’ve never seen the world be so cruel” Performances of Mizrahi masculinity under a

state of emergency in Sderot: A sociological-gender analysis of the film Hula and Natan

Moti Gigi and Haim (Hai) Bitton

Chapter 7. The State of Israel Is Disintegrating. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Conclusion of the

Film On the Hilltop Youth, Religious Zionism, and Israeli Literature

Yael Shenker

Chapter 8. A Stressful Identity: Jews, Other Nations, and Other Religions

Avner Dinur

Conclusion: Essays from Sapir, a College under Attack

Avner Dinur, Irit Ronen, Vered Weiss

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2023
Co-Autor	Haim Hai Bitton, Avner Dinur
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-7936-5386-0 / 1793653860
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-5386-4 / 9781793653864
Zustand	Neuware