Human Engineering? and Shaping Space in the New Hebrew Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2757508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yigal Schwartz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 92-114 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jss.2005.11.3.92 |
| OpenAlex | W1997907459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
immediately forgotten, and others had a considerable public life span. A few, however, became texts, foundational cultural documents that reflected and, to varying degrees, shaped some of the basic myths of the new Hebrew society. They became founding texts that, as scholars in different fields have noted,2 describe events and processes that created, interpreted, and justified social structures customary or common in a specific community.3 This article examines three such constituting texts: Abraham Mapu's Ahavat tsiyon (Love of Zion; 1853), Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (Old New Land; 1902), and Yosef Luidor's Yoash (1912-13). The particular nature of these works as well as the result of the contest for control over public consciousness between the cultural models they reflected determined for decades the image of the society in the Land of Israel
Hebrew · Linguistics · Space (punctuation) · Classics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |