Landscape and Ideology : Reinterment of Renowned Jews in the Land of Israel (1904-1967).

By:

Bar, Doron

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: Israel studies in historical geographyPublication details: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9783110493795
3110493799

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Landscape and Ideology : Reinterment of Renowned Jews in the Land of Israel (1904-1967).DDC classification:

956.9 23

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DS102.95

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Contents:

Acknowledgments ; Contents ; List of Photographs ; Foreword ; Chapter 1. Reinterment in the Zionist Narrative ; Chapter 2. "The immortal Herzl, his tombstone is the State of Israel" ; Chapter 3. The Reinterment of Zionist Leaders ; Chapter 4. Prominent Figures from the Yishuv.

Chapter 5. Reinterment in the Cemeteries of Degania and Kinneret Chapter 6. Benjamin Edmond de Rothschild -- From Paris to Ramat Hanadiv ; Chapter 7. Ze'ev Jabotinsky -- "My remains ... may not be transferred to Palestine unless by order of that country's eventual Jewish government."

Chapter 8. Reinterment of Fighters and Clandestine Immigrants Chapter 9. Etzel and Lehi Fighters in the Landscape of Reinterment ; Summary -- Ideology and Landscape in Second Burials in the Land of Israel ; Archives ; Newspapers ; Bibliography of Secondary Sources ; Index.

Summary: The book deals with the formative years of Israel's evolving symbolic landscape (1904-1967). It covers the stories of a few dozen Jews who passed away in the Diaspora and later their remains were taken to be buried for the second time (and sometimes for the third) in Israel. These were Zionists and politicians, writers and poets, heroes and public activists whose common denominator was that they all passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their tragic death. Only later, in an act of repair, their coffins were sent to be buried in the "sacred" Zionist soil, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Dgania. These graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel's landscape. The book examines how and why such great effort was made to bring their remains to Israel for reinterment, and how the funerals and graves of the public figures became state symbols and national instruments for establishing Israeli sovereignty over the land.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The book deals with the formative years of Israel's evolving symbolic landscape (1904-1967). It covers the stories of a few dozen Jews who passed away in the Diaspora and later their remains were taken to be buried for the second time (and sometimes for the third) in Israel. These were Zionists and politicians, writers and poets, heroes and public activists whose common denominator was that they all passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their tragic death. Only later, in an act of repair, their coffins were sent to be buried in the "sacred" Zionist soil, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Dgania. These graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel's landscape. The book examines how and why such great effort was made to bring their remains to Israel for reinterment, and how the funerals and graves of the public figures became state symbols and national instruments for establishing Israeli sovereignty over the land.

In English.

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