The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19940565
AutoresAlexandra Nocke (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Páginas298
Data de publicação2009-03-25
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe Place of the Mediterranean in modern Israeli identity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004173248.i-282
OpenAlexW853317315
Open LibraryOL29585875M
ISBN9789004173248
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

While early Zionists envisioned the Jewish state as an outpost of Europe in the Middle East, modern Israel is—geographically speaking—located in Asia and incorporates elements from both "Orient and Occident." This book sheds light on how the Mediterranean region, its history, traditions, climate, and attitudes have shaped Israeli lived experience and consciousness. It offers new perspectives on the evolving phenomenon of Yam Tikhoniut (hebr. Mediterraneanism), which centers around the longing to find a "natural" place in order that Israel be accommodated in the region, both culturally and politically. This book explores Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life and analyzes the ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity, societal concepts, and political realities

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music) · Judaism · Middle East · Natural (archaeology) · Order (exchange) · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · civilization · Intellectual life · Israel · Israeli National characteristics · Mediterranean influences · Mediterranean Region · National characteristics, israeli