ISBN:
9789004405264
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVI, 407 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Brill's series in Jewish studies 65
Series Statement:
Brill's series in Jewish studies
Keywords:
Israel
;
Zionismus
;
Kunst
;
Nationenbildung
Abstract:
"As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging "civil religion." Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood
