Eran Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eran Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eran |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A History of Modern Hebrew Literature
This book is a new and comprehensive history of modern Hebrew literature that revitalizes older histories while integrating contemporary theories on literature, culture, identity, and canon formation. The collection aims to deterritorialize this history by emphasizing the broad geographic spread of Hebrew literary activity, encompassing developments before and beyond the State of Israel. By expanding the scope of representation, this updated hist…
Labor in Israeli culture
Israel on the Screen
Israel on the Screen:Between Reality and Fantasy Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan Arguably more than any other artform, cinema can combine realism and fantasy, mimic the world as we see and experience it, and create images of our inner worlds, our imagination. The tension between realism and fantasy is one of cinema's most alluring aspects, and it is commonly acknowledged by what we call film styles or genres. By and large, and with some notable excep…
Fauda
Fauda, the Israeli TV show that follows a unit of mista'arvim, undercover Israeli operatives who assimilate among the Palestinian population in the West Bank, has been an international hit on Netflix. The show has generated a lot of analysis in the popular press and among scholars, much of it focusing on how it represents Jews and Arabs and whether it offers a fair description of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article examines the battlefield in…
Amos Oz and the politics of identity
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 La…
Begin, Chach'chachim , and the Birth of Israeli Identity Politics
Begin, Chach'chachim, and the Birth of Israeli Identity Politics Eran Kaplan (bio) On 28 June 1981, two days before the elections to the 10th Knesset, Prime Minister Menachem Begin gave his final public speech of the campaign at a rally in Tel-Aviv's main square. On the previous night, the Labor Hama'arach party held a rally at the same square. The election campaign was one of the most heatedly contested in Israeli history. The Likud won 48 seats…
On Pick-Hemo's Wounded Homeland
On Pick-Hemo's Wounded Homeland: The Changing Representation of Trauma in Israeli Cinema Eran Kaplan Michal Pick-Hemo, Wounded Homeland: The Changing Representation of Trauma in Israeli Cinema []. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2016 [Hebrew]. 340 pp., ISBN 011050736 (pb), 76 NIS In Wounded Homeland : The Changing Representation of Trauma in Israeli Cinema, Michal Pick-Hemo has set out to explore how Israeli cinema has reflected the relationship between the p…
Beyond Post-Zionism
On Adler’s Bethlehem
On Adler’s Bethlehem Eran Kaplan Bethlehem. Directed by Yuval Adler. Screenplay by Yuval Adler and Ali Wakad. 2013. Israel: Entre Chien et Loup/Gringo Films/Pie Films, 99 minutes. Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem (2013) is an Israeli film that focuses on the complicated and ultimately tragic relationship between Razi (Tsahi Halevi), an Israeli security agent, and his informer, Sanfur (Shadi Mar’i), a Palestinian teenager from Bethlehem. As we learn toward…
Post-Post-Zionism
In 2010, more than two decades after the first post-Zionist studies rattled Israeli academe, Asaf Likhovsky (2010) suggested that several studies that were published in the first decade of the current century are perhaps pointing at a new direction in the field of Israel and Zionist studies. Likhovsky described these studies as a third wave in Israeli historiography and referred to the scholars who produced these studies as “post-post-Zionists.” …
Nation and History
Israeli Cinema
The Jewish Radical Right
A Rebel with a Cause
IN MAY 1946, AT THE height of the Zionist struggle against the British in Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun, sent a letter to Hillel Kook-the Irgun's maverick activist in the United States.' At the beginning of the letter, Begin thanked Kook, all that he has done in true pioneering spirit and full devotion; but after the warm opening, the tone of the letter changed. The Irgun's commander warned Kook to stop spreading rumors al…
Decadent pioneers
(2001). Decadent pioneers: Land, space and gender in Zionist revisionist thought. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-23
Fauda
Fauda, the Israeli TV show that follows a unit of mista'arvim, undercover Israeli operatives who assimilate among the Palestinian population in the West Bank, has been an international hit on Netflix. The show has generated a lot of analysis in the popular press and among scholars, much of it focusing on how it represents Jews and Arabs and whether it offers a fair description of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article examines the battlefield in…
Begin, Chach'chachim , and the Birth of Israeli Identity Politics
Begin, Chach'chachim, and the Birth of Israeli Identity Politics Eran Kaplan (bio) On 28 June 1981, two days before the elections to the 10th Knesset, Prime Minister Menachem Begin gave his final public speech of the campaign at a rally in Tel-Aviv's main square. On the previous night, the Labor Hama'arach party held a rally at the same square. The election campaign was one of the most heatedly contested in Israeli history. The Likud won 48 seats…
A Rebel with a Cause
IN MAY 1946, AT THE height of the Zionist struggle against the British in Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun, sent a letter to Hillel Kook-the Irgun's maverick activist in the United States.' At the beginning of the letter, Begin thanked Kook, all that he has done in true pioneering spirit and full devotion; but after the warm opening, the tone of the letter changed. The Irgun's commander warned Kook to stop spreading rumors al…
Decadent pioneers
(2001). Decadent pioneers: Land, space and gender in Zionist revisionist thought. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-23
The Jewish Radical Right
A Rebel with a Cause
IN MAY 1946, AT THE height of the Zionist struggle against the British in Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun, sent a letter to Hillel Kook-the Irgun's maverick activist in the United States.' At the beginning of the letter, Begin thanked Kook, all that he has done in true pioneering spirit and full devotion; but after the warm opening, the tone of the letter changed. The Irgun's commander warned Kook to stop spreading rumors al…
Israeli Cinema
Nation and History
Post-Post-Zionism
In 2010, more than two decades after the first post-Zionist studies rattled Israeli academe, Asaf Likhovsky (2010) suggested that several studies that were published in the first decade of the current century are perhaps pointing at a new direction in the field of Israel and Zionist studies. Likhovsky described these studies as a third wave in Israeli historiography and referred to the scholars who produced these studies as “post-post-Zionists.” …
Beyond Post-Zionism
On Adler’s Bethlehem
On Adler’s Bethlehem Eran Kaplan Bethlehem. Directed by Yuval Adler. Screenplay by Yuval Adler and Ali Wakad. 2013. Israel: Entre Chien et Loup/Gringo Films/Pie Films, 99 minutes. Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem (2013) is an Israeli film that focuses on the complicated and ultimately tragic relationship between Razi (Tsahi Halevi), an Israeli security agent, and his informer, Sanfur (Shadi Mar’i), a Palestinian teenager from Bethlehem. As we learn toward…
On Pick-Hemo's Wounded Homeland
On Pick-Hemo's Wounded Homeland: The Changing Representation of Trauma in Israeli Cinema Eran Kaplan Michal Pick-Hemo, Wounded Homeland: The Changing Representation of Trauma in Israeli Cinema []. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2016 [Hebrew]. 340 pp., ISBN 011050736 (pb), 76 NIS In Wounded Homeland : The Changing Representation of Trauma in Israeli Cinema, Michal Pick-Hemo has set out to explore how Israeli cinema has reflected the relationship between the p…
Begin, Chach'chachim , and the Birth of Israeli Identity Politics
Begin, Chach'chachim, and the Birth of Israeli Identity Politics Eran Kaplan (bio) On 28 June 1981, two days before the elections to the 10th Knesset, Prime Minister Menachem Begin gave his final public speech of the campaign at a rally in Tel-Aviv's main square. On the previous night, the Labor Hama'arach party held a rally at the same square. The election campaign was one of the most heatedly contested in Israeli history. The Likud won 48 seats…
Amos Oz and the politics of identity
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 La…
Israel on the Screen
Israel on the Screen:Between Reality and Fantasy Yaron Peleg and Eran Kaplan Arguably more than any other artform, cinema can combine realism and fantasy, mimic the world as we see and experience it, and create images of our inner worlds, our imagination. The tension between realism and fantasy is one of cinema's most alluring aspects, and it is commonly acknowledged by what we call film styles or genres. By and large, and with some notable excep…
Fauda
Fauda, the Israeli TV show that follows a unit of mista'arvim, undercover Israeli operatives who assimilate among the Palestinian population in the West Bank, has been an international hit on Netflix. The show has generated a lot of analysis in the popular press and among scholars, much of it focusing on how it represents Jews and Arabs and whether it offers a fair description of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article examines the battlefield in…
Labor in Israeli culture
A History of Modern Hebrew Literature
This book is a new and comprehensive history of modern Hebrew literature that revitalizes older histories while integrating contemporary theories on literature, culture, identity, and canon formation. The collection aims to deterritorialize this history by emphasizing the broad geographic spread of Hebrew literary activity, encompassing developments before and beyond the State of Israel. By expanding the scope of representation, this updated hist…
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