Overview
Between 1920 and 1922, hundreds of members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement left the defunct Habsburg Monarchy and sailed to Palestine, where a small group of members of the movement established Upper Bitania, one of the communities that laid the foundation for Israel's kibbutz movement. Their social experiment lasted only eight months, but it gave birth to a powerful myth among Jewish youth which combined a story about a heroic Zionist deed, based on the trope of tragedy, with a model for a new type of community that promised no less than a total, absolute elimination of all physical and mental barriers between isolated individuals and their fusion into one entity. This entity was named ""the erotic community."" In its quest for human regeneration, Upper Bitania embarked on a journey into a highly specific variant of modern life that, at its core, tried to combine the most profound Nietzscheanism with the insights of Sigmund Freud, all in an anti-capitalist quest for an organic community of ""new men."" The quest for a ""new man"" was to compensate for a crisis of manliness and betrays an obsession with masculinity and male bonding, and their effects on the ideal man and woman.
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Author: Ofer Nordheimer Nur ,
Ofer Nordheimer Nur
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9781936235858
ISBN 10: 1936235854
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 April 2014
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Professional and scholarly
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This riveting and thought provoking study refreshingly challenges the conventional wisdom on the origins of Zionism. Meticulously researched and forcefully argued, Israel's self-image as a country of the 'new man' reflected in the image of Paul Newman, emerges to be deeply rooted in the inner need of Zionist pioneers to reinvent themselves as 'real men.' Many Israelis still do that. --Tom Segev, author of 1949: The First Israelis
This riveting and thought provoking study refreshingly challenges the conventional wisdom on the origins of Zionism. Meticulously researched and forcefully argued, Israel's self-image as a country of the 'new man' reflected in the image of Paul Newman, emerges to be deeply rooted in the inner need of Zionist pioneers to reinvent themselves as 'real men.' Many Israelis still do that. --Tom Segev, author of 1949: The First Israelis
This riveting and thought provoking study refreshingly challenges the conventional wisdom on the origins of Zionism. Meticulously researched and forcefully argued, Israel's self-image as a country of the 'new man' reflected in the image of Paul Newman, emerges to be deeply rooted in the inner need of Zionist pioneers to reinvent themselves as 'real men'. Many Israelis still do that. - Tom Segev, author of 1949: The First Israelis
Author Information
Ofer Nordheimer Nur is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies and the Gender and Women's Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in history at UCLA in 2004, won a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre d'Etudes Juives at the EHESS in Paris and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
