Autor(en)

Almog, Oz:

Verlag / Jahr

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2000.

Format / Einband

Half Cloth with dust jacket. XV, 313 p.: Ill.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 608 g

ISBN

0520216423

EAN

9780520216426

Bestell-Nr

1209957

Bemerkungen

Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und mit leichten Randläsuren, sehr vereinzelt Anstreichungen im Buch, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / Dust jacket slightly rubbed and with slight edge wear, very sporadic annotations in the book, otherwise a good and clean copy. - 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 were a small minority of the new society’s population, their cultural influence was enormous. Their ideals, their love of the land, their leisure culture of bonfires and singalongs, their adoption of Arab accessories, their slang, their gruff, straightforward manner, together with their reserved, almost puritanical attitude toward individual relationships, were the cultural fulfillment of the utopian ideal of the new Jew. Oz Almog’s lively, systematic, and convincing portrait of the Sabras considers 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—who became Palmach commanders, soldiers in the British Brigade, and, later, officers in the Israel Defense Forces— were a source of inspiration and emulation for an entire society. Drawing on rich and varied source material, including poems, letters, youth movement and army newsletters, and much more, Almog portrays the Sabras’ attitudes toward the Arabs, war, nature, work, agriculture, cooperation, and education. He also describes how a new generation of intellectuals began to challenge the legitimacy of the Sabra generation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, eschewing its total devotion to the demands of society at the expense of personal needs and aspirations. Yet the Sabras remain central to the founding myth of the nation, the real Israelis, against whom later generations will be judged. Almog’s pioneering book measures the myths against the realities and, in th< process, limns a collective profile that brilliantly encompasses the complex forces that shaped this remarkable generation. / Contents List of Illustrations Translator’s Note Introduction 1. Idealistic Euphoria 2. The Elect Son of the Chosen People 3. Dunce Cap 4. The Stamp of His Country’s Landscape 5. Uri of Arabia 6. Monks in Khaki 7. Our Gang Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780520216426

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