This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it meansto be a post-ideological Mediterranean country. DAVID OHANA Professor at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. INDICE: PART I: IDENTITY ISRAEL TOWARDS A MEDITERRANEAN IDENTITY - Mediterranean Multi-Culturalism - A Bridge Over Mediterranean Water - PART II: SPACE - Between Levantism and Mediterranism - Mediterranean Humanism - Camus and theIsraelis - PART III: POLITICS - Mediterraneans or Crusaders? - Mediterranean Myths - Politics of Political Despair or Mediterranean Dialogue? - PART IV: SOURCES - David Ben-Gurion: Israel and the Sea - Jacqueline Kahanoff: Reflections of a Levantine Jew -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11276-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 226
- Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés