From Schlemiel to Sabra

Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature

Philip Hollander (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04206-4 (ISBN)

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In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating narratives depicting masculinity in the new state as a transition from weak, feminized schlemiels to robust, muscular, and rugged Israelis. Turning to key literary texts by S. Y. Agnon, Y. H. Brenner, L. A. Arieli, and Aharon Reuveni, Hollander reveals how gender and sexuality were intertwined to promote a specific Zionist political agenda. A Zionist masculinity grounded in military prowess could not only protect the new state but also ensure its procreative needs and future. Self-awareness, physical power, fierce loyalty to the state and devotion to the land, humility, and nurture of the young were essential qualities that needed to be cultivated in migrants to the state. By turning to the early literature of Zionist Palestine, Hollander shows how Jews strove to construct a better Jewish future.

Philip Hollander is Assistant Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published numerous articles and chapters dealing with Hebrew, Jewish and Israeli literature, film, and culture.

Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Translation
General Introduction. A Rhetoric of Empowerment
Of Their Time and Their Places: A Biographical Introduction to the Self-Evaluative Writers
Chapter 1. Holding Out for a Hero: Crisis and the New Hebrew Man
Chapter 2. "He Needs a Stage": Masculinity, Homosociality and the Public Sphere
Chapter 3. Contested Masculinity and the Redemption of the Schlemiel
Chapter 4. Homosexual Panic and Masculinity's Advancement
Chapter 5. Self-Evaluative Masculinity's Interwar Apex and Eclipse
Afterword. The Lesson, Legacy, and Implications of Self-Evaluative Masculinity
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Israel Studies
Zusatzinfo	10 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-253-04206-2 / 0253042062
ISBN-13	978-0-253-04206-4 / 9780253042064
Zustand	Neuware