{"product_id":"beyond-the-land-diaspora-israeli-culture-in-the-twenty-first-century-paperback","title":"Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Weininger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA re-evaluation of the meaning and function of diaspora in contemporary Israeli culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora has become a popular mechanism to imagine non-sovereign models of Jewish peoplehood, but these models often valorize powerlessness in sometimes troubling ways. In this book, Melissa Weininger theorizes a new category of \"diaspora Israeli culture\" that is formed around and through notions of homeland and complicate the binary between diaspora and Israel. The works addressed here inhabit and imagine diaspora from the vantage point of the putative homeland, engaging both diasporic and Zionist models simultaneously through language, geography, and imagination. These examples contend with the existence of the state of Israel and its complex implications for diaspora Jewish identities and nationalisms, as well as the implications for Zionism of those diasporic conceptions of Jewish national identity. This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa Weininger is assistant professor of Jewish studies at California State University, Northridge. She has previously published works in peer-reviewed journals including \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Jewish\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStudies in the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProoftexts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShofar\u003c\/i\u003e. Her scholarship engages with topics including diaspora, Zionism and Jewish nationalism, Holocaust representation, and translingual, Hebrew, and Yiddish literature. She is also codirector of the Association for Jewish Studies' Paula Hyman Mentorship Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780661510432,"sku":"9780814350591","price":50.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1bc5fd37bce5fe140a6967883fe7763c.webp?v=1780533757","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/beyond-the-land-diaspora-israeli-culture-in-the-twenty-first-century-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}