Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1865320
Adia Mendelson-Maoz
ABSTRACT This article discusses the autobiographical writings of Amos Oz and Ronit Matalon and focuses on A Tale of Love and Darkness (2002) and The Sound of Our Steps (2008). Although the novels differ in terms of era, language, ethnic background, and the gender of the narrator/protagonist, the core plot of mother and child, the spatial concepts of home, garden, and land, and other shared structural elements invite comparison. This reading nevertheless pinpoints their disparity: whereas Oz’s own trajectory elicits empathy, redefines the notion of personal life stories and their ideological role in Israeli society, and eventually justifies the Zionist ideology, Matalon’s poetics of rupture creates unease that subverts the possibility to voice one’s personal story and challenges the national narrative and its validity.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1885154
Nurith Gertz
ABSTRACT The year was 1973 when I read the story Late Love by Amos Oz, and underlined the following passage: […] something must, absolutely must, reveal itself, a formula, a dazzling system, a purpose, surely it is inconceivable that you will go from birth to death without experiencing a single flash of illumination, without encountering a single ray of sharp light, without something happening, surely it is impossible that all your life you have been nothing more than a barren dream inside yourself, surely there is something, something must make itself known, there must be something. After reading these lines, I decided to write my MA thesis on Amos Oz. After Late Love, I went on to read My Michael and Where the Jackals Howl, as well as many of his articles and interviews he’d given. And only afterwards I was bold enough to write him, asking if we could meet. Quickly and succinctly, he replied: “What is there to discuss? You can find everything [you are looking for] in my books and essays.” Still, just a few days later, we met at Café Peter for a lively conversation, which felt like a real dialogue. That conversation which was the basis for my book, What was Lost to Time: A Biography of a Friendship, is the essence of this article.
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{"title":"Amos Oz: The lighthouse","authors":"Yigal Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1891498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1891498","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Yigal Schwartz, Amos Oz’s long-time editor and a prominent Oz scholar, reflects on the author’s impact on Israel culture.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":"38 1","pages":"415 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1891498","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44664746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1883504
Ori Yehudai
had been encouraged. SOD (an unfortunate acronym in English) was in effect the application of systems theories to operational art that supposedly reconstituted the challenges facing a field commander as the battlefield environment developed (p. 166–67). What this meant in practice was anybody’s guess but, as Marcus notes, this underscored confused decisionmaking and blurred policy objectives that hardly helped Israel prosecute the 2006 war. Like the United States and its coalition allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is not clear if the IDF still has the ability, let alone the political will, to place sufficient soldiers in harm’s way in pursuit of a proportionate response to threats posed by a powerfully armed militia. Marcus has given us a clear road map as to “why” the IDF arrived at this juncture. Whether it can ever leverage its undoubted technological superiority to subjugate Hezbollah, or whether it risks “another missed opportunity” by over-reliance on technical means remains to be seen. The danger exists, however, that in asking all the right questions, the hierarchy of the IDF might still be seeking all the wrong answers.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1834913
Karen Grumberg
ABSTRACT This article offers a comparative reading of stories by Amos Oz and Sherwood Anderson to propose “smallness” – evoked by genre, setting, and literary devices – as a vital literary strategy structuring Oz’s works. Manifestations of smallness, fundamental to the twentieth-century American literary imagination, are indispensable in Oz’s stories. Paradoxically, both Oz’s literary modernism and his status as a “world author” can only be understood in the context of the small, the provincial, and the local that Anderson elevated to the status of great literature, suggesting that not only European literature but also (non-Jewish) American writing has influenced Hebrew literature
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1885152
T. Novick
Separatism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. Lustick, I. Unsettled States/Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West BankGaza. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Penslar, D. Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, 2007. Penslar, D. “Is Zionism a Colonial Movement?” In Colonialism and the Jews, edited by E. B. Katz, L. M. Leff, and M. S. Mandel, 275–300. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Smooha, S. “Types of Democracy and Modes of Conflict Management in Ethnically Divided Societies.” Nations and Nationalism 8, no. 4 (2002): 475–503. doi:10.1111/1469-8219.00062.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1878645
Clive Jones
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1838422
Eran Kaplan
ABSTRACT If early in his career Amos Oz was regarded as the epitome of the new Israeli or Hebrew, later critics tended to reduce Oz’s image to that of a member of a specific group – Ashkenazi Laborites – that was once the hegemonic group in Israel but has seen its status decrease in recent years. This article seeks to show that in his career, Oz exhibited views on Jewish history and the future of the Jewish state that went beyond the narrow confines of Labor Zionism, and that he offered some keen political insights that transcended the limits of identity politics.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1818024
Orit Rozin
The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only wrought havoc upon the world but also accelerated an array of disturbing preexisting trends such as economic inequality and the erosion of democratic value...
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1812861
Nissim Leon
ABSTRACT This article offers a slightly different historical path toward understanding how Shas arrived on the Israeli political scene. This view highlights the ideological climate that prevailed among the Haredi elements of the Mizrahi religious leadership during the State of Israel’s formative years. These elements constituted a small Mizrahi religious circle – the Ne’emanei Ha-Torah movement that was active in Jerusalem during 1962–1971. Ne’emanei Ha-Torah was the site that consolidated the national and ethnic – Haredi and Mizrahi – political climate that served as an ideological home for those figures who, when Shas was founded, assumed spiritual-leadership roles within it.
摘要这篇文章提供了一条稍微不同的历史路径来理解沙斯是如何进入以色列政治舞台的。这一观点突显了在以色列国形成时期，米兹拉希宗教领导层的哈雷迪人中普遍存在的意识形态氛围。这些元素组成了一个小的米兹拉希宗教圈子——1962年至1971年间活跃在耶路撒冷的Ne’emanei Ha Torah运动。Ne’emanei Ha Torah是巩固国家和民族——哈雷迪和米兹拉希——政治气候的地方，这些政治气候是Shas成立时在其中担任精神领导角色的人物的意识形态家园。
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