Secularizing the sacred : aspects of Israeli visual culture / by Alec Mishory.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging "civil religion." Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood"-- Provided by publisher.

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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgement; Illustrations; Note on Terms and Transliteration; Introduction; Part 1 Before Statehood; Chapter 1 The Clarion Call: E.M. Lilien and the Jewish Renaissance; 1.1 Life, Heroism, and Beauty; 1.2 Lilien's Winged Figures; 1.3 Restrained Decadence: Jewish Angels; 1.4 Olympus and Golgotha in the Service of Zionism; Chapter 2 Boris Schatz's Pantheon of Zionist Cultural Heroes; 2.1 A Day Dream; 2.2 A New Florence; 2.3 A Hebrew Pantheon: Individual Commemoration; 2.4 Collective Commemoration; 2.5 Schatz's Legacy: Models for a Sovereign State Heroes

Chapter 3 "The Garden of Love": Early Zionist Eroticism3.1 The Garden of Love: a Remedial Institution for Nervous Atrophy; 3.2 In the Song of Songs Pavilion; 3.3 The New Jew: Intellect and Sensuality Combined; 3.4 Kisses and Embraces; 3.5 Orientalism and Symbolism in the Zionist-Biblical World; 3.6 The Secular Bride; Chapter 4 Zionist Revival and Rebirth on the Façade of the Municipal School in Tel Aviv; 4.1 Past and Present Come Together; 4.2 Four Hebrew Cities; Part 2 Objects and Conceptions of Sovereignty; Chapter 5 Israel's Scroll of Independence

Chapter 6 Hues of Heaven: the Israeli Flag6.1 The Zionist Flag; 6.2 The Magen David (David's Shield) or the Jewish Star; 6.3 The Blue Stripes; 6.4 First Proposals for an Israeli Flag; 6.5 A Multitude of King David's Shields; Chapter 7 Menorah and Olive Branches on Israel's National Emblem; 7.1 In Search of a National Emblem; 7.2 Archaeology and Socialism: Jewish Tradition versus Secularism; 7.3 The Shamir Brothers Studio's Proposal; 7.4 Prophet Zecharia's Vision: Harmony between State and Church; 7.5 A Visual Precedent from 1300; 7.6 Public Reactions to the Design of the National Emblem

Chapter 8 From Exile to Homeland: the Mythical Journey of the Temple Menorah8.1 An Icon of Destruction; 8.2 The Arch of Titus: a Symbol of Destruction and Exile; 8.3 "Oh Titus, Titus, If You Could Only See!"; 8.4 The Menorah Returns Home; 8.5 A Miraculous Translocation; 8.6 A Gift from the Mother of Parliaments to the New Israeli Parliament; 8.7 Benno Elkan: a Self-Anointed Modern Bezalel; 8.7.1 Links in a Chain: Candelabras in Milan Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the Parliament of Israel; 8.7.2 A Modular Iconographic System; 8.7.3 Concise Rendering of Alleged Jewish History

8.8 The Menorah's Penultimate Station on Its Way Home: Kssalon Settlement8.8.1 The Menorah's Last Station?; 8.9 Visual References to the Israeli Menorah Motif; Chapter 9 Zionism Liberates the Captured Daughter of Zion; 9.1 The Judaea capta Coin; 9.2 Jewish References to the Roman Judaea capta Coin; 9.3 From Judaea capta to Judaea liberata; 9.4 The Judaea capta Image on O˜˚˛cial Israeli Publications; 9.5 A Late Israeli Daughter of Zion; Chapter 10 The Twelve Tribes of Israel: from Biblical Symbolism to Emblems of a Mythical Promised Land

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