New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture
The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on a very old story; so old that it became a myth. And since the distance between the Jewish present and the Jewish past was vast, the wish to make Palestine a home for a modern Jewish nation called for creating that nation anew. It was an immense claim that required an equally immense innovation. The lecture reexamines this well-known story by looking at some of the cultural innovations of Zionists – body culture, space, art, music – and considering their fraught legacy a century later.
Date: 5 November 2024, 14:15 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 5
Speaker: Professor Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge)
Organising department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Organisers: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Organiser contact email address: charlotte.guillain@area.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Part of: Israel Studies Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Charlotte Guillain