The Sabra

Author : Oz Almog
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520921979
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sabra written by Oz Almog and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-11-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sabras were the first Israelis—the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer forebears into the reality of the new State of Israel. While the Sabras made up a small minority of the new society’s population, their cultural influence was enormous. Their ideals, their love of the land, their recreational culture of bonfires and singalongs, their adoption of Arab accessories, their slang and gruff, straightforward manner, together with a reserved, almost puritanical attitude toward individual relationships, came to signify the cultural fulfillment of the utopian ideal of a new Jew. Oz Almog’s lively, methodical, and convincing portrayal of the Sabras addresses their lives, thought, and role in Jewish history. The most comprehensive study of this exceptional generation to date, The Sabra provides a complex and unflinching analysis of accepted norms and an impressive appraisal of the Sabra, one that any examination of new Israeli reality must take into consideration. The Sabras became Palmach commanders, soldiers in the British Brigade, and, later, officers in the Israel Defense Forces. They served as a source of inspiration and an object of emulation for an entire society. Almog’s source material is rich and varied: he uses poems, letters, youth movement and army newsletters, and much more to portray the Sabras’ attitudes toward the Arabs, war, nature, work, agriculture, cooperation, and education. In any event, the Sabra remained central to the founding myth of the nation, the real Israeli, against whom later generations will be judged. Almog’s pioneering book juxtaposes the myths against the realities and, in the process, limns a collective profile that brilliantly encompasses the complex forces that shaped this remarkable generation.

Author : Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabra and Shatila written by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the history of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place over three bloody days in the Lebanese capital Beirut. It was committed against Palestinian refugees by Lebanese militias, aided and supervised by the Israeli Army, which had encircled the district.Now available for the first time in English, this classic book is the most comprehensive, authoritative account of what happened and who was responsible. The author, Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, was a Professor at the Lebanese University at the time. Driven by the horror of what occurred, she interviewed survivors and set up an oral history project immediately after the massacre to preserve testimonies. This book is the result. Following a general introduction, the first part contains interviews mainly with victims' families. The second part analyses statistical data and attempts to determine the number of victims. The conclusion, 'Who Was Responsible?', sheds light on the various parties responsible. Over five-hundred pages long, illustrated with photographs and maps, unrivalled in detail and scope, this book is a courageous attempt to make sense of what happened and an important political document in its own right.

Author : Oz Almog
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520216423
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sabra written by Oz Almog and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-11-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the Sabras (the state of Israeli's first generation, born between the 1930's and 40's) recreating their life, their thought, and their role in Jewish history.

Author : Philip Hollander
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253042097
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Schlemiel to Sabra written by Philip Hollander and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tamar Katriel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521326308
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Straight written by Tamar Katriel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern Israel, the 'sabra', or native-born Israeli Jew, is held to be the mythic New Jew. A major symbolic vehicle for the affirmation of this identity is the use of 'dugri', or straight speech. Combining a sociolinguistic and a cultural-anthropological perspective, Tamar Katriel explores the 'dugri' idiom as a cultural form. She shows that while appeal to shared cultural meanings mitigates the blunt edge of 'dugri' speech for members of the culture, conversely outsiders often interpret the 'sabra's' directness as rudeness. She illustrates the meanings and forms associated with 'dugri' speech by discussing two public dramas which occurred in Israel in the early 1980s, revealing the potential effects of the use of conflicting speech styles. She also compares 'dugri' speech to directness and indirectness in other cultures and develops a preliminary framework for a typological analysis of direct and indirect speechways.

Author : Mischa Hiller
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 1846591023
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabra Zoo written by Mischa Hiller and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book for Europe and South Asia. "A stunning, defiant debut."— Guardian "Hiller brings to his works not only a craftsman's skill but also a compassion for his characters that proves infectious."— Haaretz "A chilling rites-of-passage novel set in Beirut in 1982 during the killings in the camps."— The Economist It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra refugee camp and working undercover for the PLO. Hoping to get closer to Eli, a Norwegian physiotherapist, he helps her treat Youssef, a camp orphan disabled by a cluster bomb. An unexpected friendship develops between the three and things begin to look up. But events take a nasty turn when the president-elect is assassinated. The Israeli army enters Beirut and surrounds the camp, with Eli and Youssef trapped inside. What happens next makes international headlines and leaves Ivan scrabbling to salvage something positive from the chaos. Mischa Hiller, of English–Palestinian descent, was born in England in 1962 and grew up in London, Dar es Salaam, and Beirut. Mischa won the 2009 European Independent Film Festival script competition for his adaptation of Sabra Zoo. He lives with his family in Cambridge, England.

Author : Tom Slayton
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584652663
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabra Field written by Tom Slayton and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Sabra Field's landmark prints, with commentary by the artist, now in a second edition with thirteen additional images

Author : Julia Alvarez
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609806719
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Do They Go? written by Julia Alvarez and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling novelist (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and children's (The Tia Lola Stories) author Julia Alvarez's new picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addresses the emotional side of death. The book asks, "When somebody dies, where do they go? / Do they go where the wind goes when it blows? ... Do they wink back at me when I wish on a star? Do they whisper, 'You're perfect, just as you are'? ..." Illustrated by Vermont woodcut artist, Sabra Field, Where Do They Go? is a beautiful and comforting meditation on death, asking questions young readers might have about what happens to those they love after they die. A Spanish-language edition of the book, ¿Donde va a parar?, is available in paperback.

Author : Sabra Loomis
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061982725
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Held Together by Winds written by Sabra Loomis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These are my songlines; they helped me to re-connect with the landscape, and with my own life," says Sabra Loomis of the poems which appear in House Held Together by Winds. Winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series Open Competition as selected by James Tate (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award), Sabra's work perpetuates NPS's tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets. For over twenty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.

Author : Seth Anziska
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202451
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Palestine written by Seth Anziska and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Yet the Palestinians - the would-be beneficiaries of a vision for a comprehensive regional settlement that led to the Camp David Accords in 1978 - remain stateless to this day. How and why Palestinian statelessness persists are the central questions of Seth Anziska's groundbreaking book, which explores the complex legacy of the agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter. Based on newly declassified international sources, Preventing Palestine charts the emergence of the Middle East peace process, including the establishment of a separate track to deal with the issue of Palestine. At the very start of this process, Anziska argues, Egyptian-Israeli peace came at the expense of the sovereignty of the Palestinians, whose aspirations for a homeland alongside Israel faced crippling challenges. With the introduction of the idea of restrictive autonomy, Israeli settlement expansion, and Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the chances for Palestinian statehood narrowed even further. The first Intifada in 1987 and the end of the Cold War brought new opportunities for a Palestinian state, but many players, refusing to see Palestinians as a nation or a people, continued to steer international diplomacy away from their cause.