In Search of Identity
Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture

Culture has played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity. Since the 1950s, Israeli culture has been disintegrating into simultaneous sub-cultures. This book discusses the nature and characteristics of this cultural tension and the nature of Jewishness.

Culture has played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity. Since the 1950s, Israeli culture has been disintegrating into simultaneous sub-cultures. The contributors discuss the nature and characteristics of this cultural tension and the nature of Jewishness.

Part 1 Cultural tension: Judaism in Israel culture, Eliezer Schweid
secular Judaism and its prospects, Charles S. Liebman
between hegemony and dormant Kulturkampf in Israel, Baruch Kimmerling
shall we find sufficient strength? on behalf of Israel secularism, Gershon Shaked
between Rabbi Shach and modern Hebrew literature, Dan Miron. Part 2 The Jewishness of Israeli identity: spiritual rootlessness and circumscription to the "here and now" in the Sabra World View, Avraham Shapira
the Shdemot circle members in search of Jewish sources, Gad Ufaz
Jewish education in the Jewish state, David Zisenwine. Part 3 Artistic representations of Jewish identity: Sisera's mother and the Trojan women - on universal aspects of the Jewish/Israeli theatre, Eli Rozik-Rosen
from Jew to Hebrew - the "Zionist narrative" in the Israeli cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, Nurit Gertz
the theme of Jerusalem in the works of the Israeli fathers of conceptual arts, Moderchai Omer
"The Dybbuk" revisited - images of religious Jews on the Israeli stage, Shimon Levy.