Perspectives on Israel Studies
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Perspectives on Israel Studies

Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature

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Perspectives on Israel Studies

Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature

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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.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780253042095
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Middle Eastern Literary
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Transliteration and Translation
  8. General Introduction: A Rhetoric of Empowerment
  9. Of Their Time and Their Places: A Biographical Introduction to the Self-Evaluative Writers
  10. 1. Holding Out for a Hero: Crisis and the New Hebrew Man
  11. 2. “He Needs a Stage”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and the Public Sphere
  12. 3. Contested Masculinity and the Redemption of the Schlemiel
  13. 4. Homosexual Panic and Masculinity’s Advancement
  14. 5. Self-Evaluative Masculinity’s Interwar Apex and Eclipse
  15. Afterword: The Lesson, Legacy, and Implications of Self-Evaluative Masculinity
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. General Index
  18. Index of Cited Works
  19. About the Author