Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas

<p>Over the past two decades profound changes in Israel opened its society to powerful outside forces and the dominance of global capitalism. As a result the centrality of Zionism as an organizing ideology waned prompting expressions of anxiety in Israel about the coming of a post-Zionist age. The fears about the end of Zionism were quelled however by the Palestinian uprising in 2000 which spurred at least a partial return to more traditional perceptions of homeland. Looking at Israeli literature of the late twentieth century Yaron Peleg shows how a young urban class of Israelis felt alienated from the Zionist values of their forebears and how they adopted a form of escapist romanticism as a defiant response that replaced traditional nationalism.</p> <p>One of the first books in English to identify the end of the post-Zionist era through inspired readings of Hebrew literature and popular media <i>Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas</i> examines Israel's ambivalent relationship with Jewish nationalism at the end of the twentieth century.</p>