Finally, Militarism Is a Legitimate Term

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-129
Author(s):  
Yoram Peri
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
Open University ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Hebrew Culture ◽  
The Military ◽  
Israeli Soldiers ◽  
Religious Zionism

David Greenblum, From the Heroism of the Spirit to the Sanctification of Power: Power and Heroism in Religious Zionism between 1948 and 1968 (Tel Aviv: Open University, 2016). Uri S. Cohen, The Security Style and the Hebrew Culture of War (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2017). Dan Arev, Dying to Watch: War, Memory, and Television in Israel 1967–1991 (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2017). Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Tel Aviv Was Also Once an Arab Village: The Normalization of the Territories in Israeli Discourse, 1967 (Cambridge, MA: Israel Academic Press, 2017). Nitza Ben-Dov, The Life of War: On the Military, Revenge, Loss, and War Consciousness in Israeli Prose (Jerusalem: Schocken Books, 2016). Haya Milo, Songs Through the Barrel of the Gun: Israeli Soldiers’ Folk Songs (Tel Aviv: Open University, 2017).

No Sabras in the Fields?

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Leah Gilula
Keyword(s):  
Native Language ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Successful Performance ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Hebrew Culture

The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv has always presented itself as the first repertory theater in the Yishuv that represented the sabras, creating the impression that its actors and artists were themselves mainly sabras and Hebrew their native language. However, this image, based chiefly on the successful performance of the play He Walked through the Fields, does not reflect reality. The article questions the myth by exploring the actual number of sabra theater artists and actors in the troupe, their place and measure of influence. Exposing this image sheds light on The Cameri Theatre at its beginning as well as on the creation of the image of the sabra, as presented by the character of Uri, and embraced by Hebrew culture.

Military (Non-)Policing in the Occupied Territories

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Nir Gazit
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Situational Variables ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
The Military ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

Since 1967, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been engaged in various military missions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including occasional high-intensity fighting and counter-insurgency, as well as civilian duties, such as administration and policing. While existing literature emphasizes the organizational and professional burden this combination of duties places on the military, the actual forces that shape soldiers’ policing practices in the field remain largely unexamined. The present article offers a micro-sociological examination of the patterns of military policing implemented by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It explores the social and political forces that shape soldiers’ ‘logics of action’ and demonstrates the reciprocal relations between the IDF’s disparate modes of policing of Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Three clusters of factors shape these interrelations: the relationships between soldiers and settlers, the blurring between ‘security’ and ‘civilian’ missions, and situational variables. The research for this article was conducted between 2004 and 2018.

Ha’am, Ahad (1856–1927)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeev Levy
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Main Road ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The People ◽  
Hebrew Culture ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Culture Tradition ◽  
Course Of Study

Ahad Ha’am (Asher Hirsch Ginzberg) was one of the most remarkable Jewish thinkers and Zionist ideologists of his time. Born in the province of Kiev in the Ukraine, he moved in 1884 to Odessa, an important centre of Hebrew literary activity. In 1907 he moved on to London, and in 1922 settled in the young city of Tel Aviv. He attended the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Breslau but did not pursue any regular course of study and was primarily an autodidact. Never a systematic philosopher, Ginzberg, who wrote in Hebrew and adopted the pen name Ahad Ha’am, ‘one of the people’, became a first-rate and widely read essayist and polemicist. He engaged in controversies over the practical problems of the early Jewish settlements in Palestine, his opposition to Theodore Herzl’s drive to create a Jewish state, and numerous problems of Hebrew culture, tradition and literature. No single principle or theme stands out as the guiding idea of his thought. Indeed, his ideas are sometimes inconsistent. But his writings preserve the flavour of his values and commitments. Although his outlook never became the main road of Zionist ideology, its impact on Zionist thought was powerful, especially after the establishment of the State of Israel.

“New Middle East”, “Cedar Revolution”

Hezbollah ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 175-200
Author(s):  
Aurélie Daher
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
September 11 ◽  
The Political ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

This chapter looks into the years that follow the Liberation of 2000, and the political redistribution of power after the Syrian withdrawal of 2005. The abductions of Israeli soldiers by the IRL and the prisoner exchanges with Tel-Aviv, the conservative Christian comeback on the domestic scene, the bittersweet relations with Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, the attacks of September 11 and the American "War on Terror" as well as the end of the Syrian tutelage on Lebanon, were all factors that were perceived as real threats for Hezbollah and the IRL. In reality, a certain Lebanese context, and regional and international considerations would turn these threats into opportunities for Hezbollah to strengthen its mobilization.

scholarly journals Form and Style in Two of Percy Grainger’s Early Works for Military Band

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
John David Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Compositional Style ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Voice Leading ◽  
Military Band ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Military

Percy Grainger’s compositions during the early twentieth century represent a unique blend of traditional functional harmony and newer musical techniques. This blending produces a distinct compositional style associated with Grainger, featuring simple forms and textures, melodies inspired by traditional folk songs, extended tertian harmony, and an emphasis on voice leading. Grainger’s works often cross genres and explore various instrumentations and stylistic choices. This paper attempts to further define and explain Grainger’s style by analyzing two of his original works that were arranged for the military band setting, namely Children’s March: Over the Hills and Far Away and Colonial Song. Examining these two works through the lens of harmony, melody, form, texture, and rhythm reveals key aspects of Grainger’s early compositional style. Several stylistic choices were found to recur, including Grainger’s use of counterpoint, voice leading, descending chromaticism, specific patterns of articulations, and tension created by increased note density.

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