Na’ama Sheffi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Na’ama Sheffi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Na’ama |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheffi |
| SIGNATURE | SHEFFI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapir College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Making of a Capital
This article analyzes the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish-Israeli consciousness through the city’s representations on banknotes, based on the proceedings of the Bank of Israel’s Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee since its inception in 1955. The Banknotes Committee, as an institutional body that represents the ruling hegemony, has worked to bolster the emblematic status of Jerusalem as the Jewish-Israeli capital in the past as well as t…
The power of Hegemony
This article examines the processes of selecting human figures on banknotes since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Given Israel’s relative youth, along with the permission to read all proceedings and correspondence of the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee from its inception in 1955 to 2012, we will decipher the selection of 33 human figures and the ideological motivations behind it. We will contextualize the…
Past continuous
This article analyzes the special role of archaeological representations on the legal tender in Israel. Money is one of the most pervasive symbolic instruments in daily life, frequently used for nation-building and carrying a political agenda. The use of archaeological representations on Israeli money has a clear political role: to revalidate the national Jewish-Zionist resurrection, to justify the nation’s claim for its historical land, and to d…
Land of milk and honey
In times of geopolitical shifts, banknotes as symbolic objects are still playing a central role in the constitution and consolidation of nationhood. Using Israeli banknotes – which are means of banal nationalism and every-day nationalism – as a case study we wish to illuminate the role of the hegemonic institution of national banknotes in creating a selective tradition that organizes symbols related to flora as signifying a certain ‘territorial i…
Introducing an Israeli Collective Portrait
The Allegoric Figures Series was the first Israeli banknotes series carefully designed by a special committee, namely, the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee. Analyzing the committee's discussions and its discourse with its superiors—the governor of the Bank of Israel, the minister of finance, and the prime minister—this paper reveals a consistent attempt to design the series in the spirit of the desired Zionist-Israeli socie…
Borders and banknotes
Replacing a banknotes series is meaningful for politicians and the general public even today, while most transactions are executed through virtual means. The choice of images carried on banknotes represents the limits of the State's sovereign border and becomes a means of banal nationalism. Moreover, by utilising scopic regimes, the hegemony portrays the cultural and political borders: historical figures from the country's past on one side, and a…
Shifting boundaries
This article examines Israeli children's magazines that were published in the weeks preceding and following the 1967 war in order to show the ways in which the war and its consequences were presented to the children. As common in times of war, the magazines' editors aimed to mobilize their readers to the national effort, establishing role models such as children living in settlements near the battlefront. Alongside the national jubilation that fo…
Between Collective Memory and Manipulation
Jews, Germans and the Representation of Jud Süss in Literature and Film
The story of the renowned financier Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, Jud Süss, has appeared in numerous literary publications, many plays and two cinema features. Following a general presentation of Süss (1692?-1738), this article examines the various ways his character has been used throughout history as a way to define German-Jewish relations. This analysis shows that the same character was used to support anti-semitic arguments as well as for a philo-…
Israeli Education System in Search of a Pantheon of Heroes, 1948-1967
ISRAELI'S FIRST 20 YEARS OF EXISTENCE as a state presented its education system with complex challenges: how to bridge the gaps between different educational trends administered by separate, autonomous systems; how to absorb thousands of immigrant children and conjure up out of nothing the additional educational institutions and teaching staff they required; and how to integrate older immigrants into Israeli society—a problem that was not, in pri…
The Hebrew absorption of German literature in the Yishuv
The Jewish Expulsion from Spain and the Rise of National Socialism on the Hebrew Stage
En 1938, Max Zweig, Juif d'Europe centrale recemment emigre en Palestine, fit representer en hebreu au theâtre de Tel Aviv sa piece Die Marranen (Les Marranes), qui eut un succes phenomenal et fut redonne un tres grand nombre de fois avant l'existence de l'Etat hebreu. Dans cet article, l'A. examine la facon dont la production des Marranes et son accueil par le Yishuv refletaient la pensee et les questions historiques de l'epoque. Son but est d'e…
Who's afraid of Richard Wagner
Borders and banknotes
Replacing a banknotes series is meaningful for politicians and the general public even today, while most transactions are executed through virtual means. The choice of images carried on banknotes represents the limits of the State's sovereign border and becomes a means of banal nationalism. Moreover, by utilising scopic regimes, the hegemony portrays the cultural and political borders: historical figures from the country's past on one side, and a…
Israeli Education System in Search of a Pantheon of Heroes, 1948-1967
ISRAELI'S FIRST 20 YEARS OF EXISTENCE as a state presented its education system with complex challenges: how to bridge the gaps between different educational trends administered by separate, autonomous systems; how to absorb thousands of immigrant children and conjure up out of nothing the additional educational institutions and teaching staff they required; and how to integrate older immigrants into Israeli society—a problem that was not, in pri…
Past continuous
This article analyzes the special role of archaeological representations on the legal tender in Israel. Money is one of the most pervasive symbolic instruments in daily life, frequently used for nation-building and carrying a political agenda. The use of archaeological representations on Israeli money has a clear political role: to revalidate the national Jewish-Zionist resurrection, to justify the nation’s claim for its historical land, and to d…
The power of Hegemony
This article examines the processes of selecting human figures on banknotes since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Given Israel’s relative youth, along with the permission to read all proceedings and correspondence of the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee from its inception in 1955 to 2012, we will decipher the selection of 33 human figures and the ideological motivations behind it. We will contextualize the…
Land of milk and honey
In times of geopolitical shifts, banknotes as symbolic objects are still playing a central role in the constitution and consolidation of nationhood. Using Israeli banknotes – which are means of banal nationalism and every-day nationalism – as a case study we wish to illuminate the role of the hegemonic institution of national banknotes in creating a selective tradition that organizes symbols related to flora as signifying a certain ‘territorial i…
Introducing an Israeli Collective Portrait
The Allegoric Figures Series was the first Israeli banknotes series carefully designed by a special committee, namely, the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee. Analyzing the committee's discussions and its discourse with its superiors—the governor of the Bank of Israel, the minister of finance, and the prime minister—this paper reveals a consistent attempt to design the series in the spirit of the desired Zionist-Israeli socie…
The Jewish Expulsion from Spain and the Rise of National Socialism on the Hebrew Stage
En 1938, Max Zweig, Juif d'Europe centrale recemment emigre en Palestine, fit representer en hebreu au theâtre de Tel Aviv sa piece Die Marranen (Les Marranes), qui eut un succes phenomenal et fut redonne un tres grand nombre de fois avant l'existence de l'Etat hebreu. Dans cet article, l'A. examine la facon dont la production des Marranes et son accueil par le Yishuv refletaient la pensee et les questions historiques de l'epoque. Son but est d'e…
Who's afraid of Richard Wagner
Between Collective Memory and Manipulation
Who's afraid of Richard Wagner
The Hebrew absorption of German literature in the Yishuv
The Jewish Expulsion from Spain and the Rise of National Socialism on the Hebrew Stage
En 1938, Max Zweig, Juif d'Europe centrale recemment emigre en Palestine, fit representer en hebreu au theâtre de Tel Aviv sa piece Die Marranen (Les Marranes), qui eut un succes phenomenal et fut redonne un tres grand nombre de fois avant l'existence de l'Etat hebreu. Dans cet article, l'A. examine la facon dont la production des Marranes et son accueil par le Yishuv refletaient la pensee et les questions historiques de l'epoque. Son but est d'e…
Israeli Education System in Search of a Pantheon of Heroes, 1948-1967
ISRAELI'S FIRST 20 YEARS OF EXISTENCE as a state presented its education system with complex challenges: how to bridge the gaps between different educational trends administered by separate, autonomous systems; how to absorb thousands of immigrant children and conjure up out of nothing the additional educational institutions and teaching staff they required; and how to integrate older immigrants into Israeli society—a problem that was not, in pri…
Jews, Germans and the Representation of Jud Süss in Literature and Film
The story of the renowned financier Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, Jud Süss, has appeared in numerous literary publications, many plays and two cinema features. Following a general presentation of Süss (1692?-1738), this article examines the various ways his character has been used throughout history as a way to define German-Jewish relations. This analysis shows that the same character was used to support anti-semitic arguments as well as for a philo-…
Between Collective Memory and Manipulation
Shifting boundaries
This article examines Israeli children's magazines that were published in the weeks preceding and following the 1967 war in order to show the ways in which the war and its consequences were presented to the children. As common in times of war, the magazines' editors aimed to mobilize their readers to the national effort, establishing role models such as children living in settlements near the battlefront. Alongside the national jubilation that fo…
Borders and banknotes
Replacing a banknotes series is meaningful for politicians and the general public even today, while most transactions are executed through virtual means. The choice of images carried on banknotes represents the limits of the State's sovereign border and becomes a means of banal nationalism. Moreover, by utilising scopic regimes, the hegemony portrays the cultural and political borders: historical figures from the country's past on one side, and a…
Land of milk and honey
In times of geopolitical shifts, banknotes as symbolic objects are still playing a central role in the constitution and consolidation of nationhood. Using Israeli banknotes – which are means of banal nationalism and every-day nationalism – as a case study we wish to illuminate the role of the hegemonic institution of national banknotes in creating a selective tradition that organizes symbols related to flora as signifying a certain ‘territorial i…
Introducing an Israeli Collective Portrait
The Allegoric Figures Series was the first Israeli banknotes series carefully designed by a special committee, namely, the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee. Analyzing the committee's discussions and its discourse with its superiors—the governor of the Bank of Israel, the minister of finance, and the prime minister—this paper reveals a consistent attempt to design the series in the spirit of the desired Zionist-Israeli socie…
The power of Hegemony
This article examines the processes of selecting human figures on banknotes since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Given Israel’s relative youth, along with the permission to read all proceedings and correspondence of the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee from its inception in 1955 to 2012, we will decipher the selection of 33 human figures and the ideological motivations behind it. We will contextualize the…
Past continuous
This article analyzes the special role of archaeological representations on the legal tender in Israel. Money is one of the most pervasive symbolic instruments in daily life, frequently used for nation-building and carrying a political agenda. The use of archaeological representations on Israeli money has a clear political role: to revalidate the national Jewish-Zionist resurrection, to justify the nation’s claim for its historical land, and to d…
The Making of a Capital
This article analyzes the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish-Israeli consciousness through the city’s representations on banknotes, based on the proceedings of the Bank of Israel’s Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee since its inception in 1955. The Banknotes Committee, as an institutional body that represents the ruling hegemony, has worked to bolster the emblematic status of Jerusalem as the Jewish-Israeli capital in the past as well as t…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · National Identity and Symbolism (6 works)