Characteristics of Israeli Society: The Context Youth is Brought Up

This essay describes the development of the Post-Zionist critique within Israeli society, from the late 1980s, when it first appeared in academic works, and follows its dissemination into other areas of cultural activity (theatre, newspapers, films, TV and radio). It assesses the overall impact of post-Zionism on Israeli society, with particular stress on the way the recent Intifada (begun in September 2000) has influenced its fortunes in Israel, and raised some fears for the immediate future.

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The Holocaust on Trial: The Impact of the Kasztner and Eichmann Trials on Israeli Society

Israel Studies ◽

10.2979/isr.1996.1.2.1 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 1-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Yechiam Weitz

Keyword(s):

Israeli Society ◽

The Holocaust ◽

The Impact

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Political Participation through the Judicial System: Exit, Voice and Quasi-Exit in Israeli Society

Israel Studies ◽

10.2979/isr.2003.8.2.118 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 118-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Shlomo Mizrahi ◽

Assaf Meydani

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Judicial System ◽

Israeli Society

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Classical Presences and ‘Post Dramatic’ Performances

10.1093/oso/9780198746676.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Nurit Yaari

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

Greek Tragedy ◽

Israeli Society ◽

The Political

This chapter looks at theatrical productions created in the wake of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, which sought to convey the shock that permeated Israeli society as a result, and to provide theatrical responses to help the grieving community come to terms with his death. The chapter analyses the theatrical oeuvre of four post dramatic theatre creators—Ruth Kanner, Ilan Ronen, Rina Yerushalmi, and Hanan Snir—who saw Greek classical tragedy as a vast artistic arena where the political, the humanistic, and the artistic-performative merge, encompassing present and past, myth and history. Moreover, classical Greek tragedy allowed them to project their most disturbing concerns about the Israeli present and future by tearing apart the well-known texts, deconstructing their dramatic templates, and editing, adapting, revising, and redesigning their content in the decades after Rabin’s assassination, when hope gave way to despair.

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