{"title":"Love, compassion, and longing","authors":"Nurith Gertz","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1885154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1885154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The year was 1973 when I read the story Late Love by Amos Oz, and underlined the following passage: […] something must, absolutely must, reveal itself, a formula, a dazzling system, a purpose, surely it is inconceivable that you will go from birth to death without experiencing a single flash of illumination, without encountering a single ray of sharp light, without something happening, surely it is impossible that all your life you have been nothing more than a barren dream inside yourself, surely there is something, something must make itself known, there must be something. After reading these lines, I decided to write my MA thesis on Amos Oz. After Late Love, I went on to read My Michael and Where the Jackals Howl, as well as many of his articles and interviews he’d given. And only afterwards I was bold enough to write him, asking if we could meet. Quickly and succinctly, he replied: “What is there to discuss? You can find everything [you are looking for] in my books and essays.” Still, just a few days later, we met at Café Peter for a lively conversation, which felt like a real dialogue. That conversation which was the basis for my book, What was Lost to Time: A Biography of a Friendship, is the essence of this article.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1885154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46524281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The unchosen ones: Diaspora, nation, and migration in Israel and Germany","authors":"Ori Yehudai","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1883504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1883504","url":null,"abstract":"had been encouraged. SOD (an unfortunate acronym in English) was in effect the application of systems theories to operational art that supposedly reconstituted the challenges facing a field commander as the battlefield environment developed (p. 166–67). What this meant in practice was anybody’s guess but, as Marcus notes, this underscored confused decisionmaking and blurred policy objectives that hardly helped Israel prosecute the 2006 war. Like the United States and its coalition allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is not clear if the IDF still has the ability, let alone the political will, to place sufficient soldiers in harm’s way in pursuit of a proportionate response to threats posed by a powerfully armed militia. Marcus has given us a clear road map as to “why” the IDF arrived at this juncture. Whether it can ever leverage its undoubted technological superiority to subjugate Hezbollah, or whether it risks “another missed opportunity” by over-reliance on technical means remains to be seen. The danger exists, however, that in asking all the right questions, the hierarchy of the IDF might still be seeking all the wrong answers.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1883504","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47395007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The greatness of smallness: Amos Oz, Sherwood Anderson, and the American presence in Hebrew literature","authors":"Karen Grumberg","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1834913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1834913","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a comparative reading of stories by Amos Oz and Sherwood Anderson to propose “smallness” – evoked by genre, setting, and literary devices – as a vital literary strategy structuring Oz’s works. Manifestations of smallness, fundamental to the twentieth-century American literary imagination, are indispensable in Oz’s stories. Paradoxically, both Oz’s literary modernism and his status as a “world author” can only be understood in the context of the small, the provincial, and the local that Anderson elevated to the status of great literature, suggesting that not only European literature but also (non-Jewish) American writing has influenced Hebrew literature","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1834913","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41830555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical Palestine: Capital and technology from empire to nation","authors":"T. Novick","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1885152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1885152","url":null,"abstract":"Separatism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. Lustick, I. Unsettled States/Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West BankGaza. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Penslar, D. Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, 2007. Penslar, D. “Is Zionism a Colonial Movement?” In Colonialism and the Jews, edited by E. B. Katz, L. M. Leff, and M. S. Mandel, 275–300. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. Smooha, S. “Types of Democracy and Modes of Conflict Management in Ethnically Divided Societies.” Nations and Nationalism 8, no. 4 (2002): 475–503. doi:10.1111/1469-8219.00062.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1885152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49617522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israel’s long war with Hezbollah: Military innovation and adaptation under fire","authors":"Clive Jones","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1878645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1878645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1878645","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41284267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amos Oz and the politics of identity: A reassessment","authors":"Eran Kaplan","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1838422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1838422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT If early in his career Amos Oz was regarded as the epitome of the new Israeli or Hebrew, later critics tended to reduce Oz’s image to that of a member of a specific group – Ashkenazi Laborites – that was once the hegemonic group in Israel but has seen its status decrease in recent years. This article seeks to show that in his career, Oz exhibited views on Jewish history and the future of the Jewish state that went beyond the narrow confines of Labor Zionism, and that he offered some keen political insights that transcended the limits of identity politics.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1838422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41323993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuities and ruptures in time","authors":"Orit Rozin","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1818024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1818024","url":null,"abstract":"The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only wrought havoc upon the world but also accelerated an array of disturbing preexisting trends such as economic inequality and the erosion of democratic value...","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1818024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49120596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ne’emanei Ha-Torah movement, 1962-1971: An early version of Shas?","authors":"Nissim Leon","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1812861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1812861","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a slightly different historical path toward understanding how Shas arrived on the Israeli political scene. This view highlights the ideological climate that prevailed among the Haredi elements of the Mizrahi religious leadership during the State of Israel’s formative years. These elements constituted a small Mizrahi religious circle – the Ne’emanei Ha-Torah movement that was active in Jerusalem during 1962–1971. Ne’emanei Ha-Torah was the site that consolidated the national and ethnic – Haredi and Mizrahi – political climate that served as an ideological home for those figures who, when Shas was founded, assumed spiritual-leadership roles within it.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1812861","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41984126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Androcentric amnesia and patronage micromanagement: the Mutchnicks from Nahalal to Yeruham","authors":"David Motzafi-Haller","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1793491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1793491","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A case study of one nuclear family, the Mutchniks from Nahalal, focusing on the dynamic between its dominant patron, Pinchas, and its dominant matron, Rosa, and a spatial analysis of the “home away from home” they had built in Yeruham from 1956 to 1969. These two aspects tie together an article concerned with several interlocking questions. What kind of decisions make up an intergenerational family strategy, and what role do women play in planning and carrying it out? How can a history that is (mis)represented by contemporary sources produce a valuable analysis? How were patronage networks micromanaged? And how is keeping the privileged access to professional and financial opportunities in the frontier to certain groups of settlers related to long-term social climbing avenues?","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1793491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44278285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forging beginnings: Commemorative cultures and the politics of the “First Aliyah”","authors":"Liora R. Halperin","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2020.1810420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2020.1810420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that the “First Aliyah,” associated with the private agricultural colonies (moshavot) of the late nineteenth century and long studied primarily in its pre-World War I context, must be studied as a mandate and early state-era retrospective creation. It was forged during a period of Labor Zionist hegemony and in light of Palestinian resistance and rising Jewish immigration. In promoting their own past past, local landowners and private agriculturalists attempted to invert accusations of ideological poverty, economic exploitation, and inefficacy to present the founding generation as models of pragmatism, hierarchical coexistence with Palestinian laborers, and apoliticism. It further suggests the importance of localized and class-specific Zionist memory and the utility of thinking of these cultural formations as a place-specific variant not only of ethnonational memory, but also of settler memory.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13531042.2020.1810420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47256904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}