Undergraduate Course: Israel: Promised Land and Land of Conflict (REST10053)
Course Outline
| School | School of Divinity |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course will cover the development of Zionist thought and the events leading to the foundation of the State of Israel, various aspects of Israeli culture (language, literature, religion), and current Israeli political problems. |
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Academic Description:
This course introduces different aspects of Jewish thought and culture by offering a twofold approach of historical overview and in-depth study of particular issues. The course is designed to develop insights into a range of historical and intellectual developments in Jewish identifications, in particular since the beginning of the Emancipation of the Jews at the end of the eighteenth century as these relate to the Land and State of Israel. The development of Zionist thought and the events leading to the foundation of the State of Israel will be studied. The course then focuses on various aspects of Israeli culture (language, literature, religion), and current Israeli political problems. The course aims to offer an insight into the complexity of Israeli society and the place of religion within the state. Students will also gain insight into the history and current developments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Syllabus/Outline Content:
Students will read a variety of sources, ranging from early Zionist texts written in the nineteenth century, political texts addressing current affairs, as well as literary and other cultural products (for example films, poetry, music) to gain an understanding of the development of Israeli society and its diversity.
Student Learning Experience Information:
The course consists of a two hour weekly seminar which may be taught as a 'flipped classroom'. In the first hour students will engage in a discussion of the source text(s) for the week. To prepare students are asked to study in depth the key texts assigned for each week. These consist of a primary source and appropriate scholarly literature. There will be a formative aspect to the study of source texts which will feed forward to the assessed essay and exam. The second hour of the seminar will take the form of a lecture to prepare students with an overview of issues relevant to the following week's source text. A class essay and a final exam test the learning outcomes for this course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyse the problems faced by the Jewish people at the beginning of the modern era and why Zionism arose as one possible solution and, through the Zionist movement, eventually succeeded in founding the State of Israel.
- Competently outline the various ideological trends within the State of Israel and especially the role of religion within the State.
- Explain the role played in the establishment of the State by the revival of the Hebrew language and the literature and cultural production based on it.
- Demonstrate awareness of the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Learning Resources
Class Schedule
Week 1
Introduction
Introductory Lecture, discussion of syllabus, course policies, and requirements
Week 2
19th century Europe, racial anti-Semitism, and the development of political Zionism: A Homeland for the Jews?
Required Reading
¿ Almog, Shmuel. ¿People and Land in Modern Jewish Nationalism¿ in Essential Papers on Zionism.
¿ Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. New York: Dover Publications, 1988 (originally published as Der Judenstaat, 1896). Excerpts.
Further Reading
¿ Almog, Shmuel, Reinharz, Jehuda and Shapira, Anita (eds). Zionism and Religion. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998.
¿ Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
¿ Brenner, Michael. A Brief History of Zionism. Princeton: M. Wiener, 2003.
¿ Burns, Michael. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.
¿ Gorni, Yosef. Zionism and the Arabs 1882-1948: A Study of Ideology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
¿ Hazony, Yoram. The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel¿s Soul. Basicbooks 2000.
¿ Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. New York: Antheum, 1984.
¿ Katz, Jacob. From Prejudice to Destruction: Antisemitism, 1700-1933. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
¿ Kushner, Tony and Valman, Nadia (eds). Philosemitism, Antisemitism and the 'Jews': Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
¿ Laqueur, Walter. The Chancing Faces of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
¿ Lewis, Geoffrey, Balfour and Weizmann: the Zionist, the Zealot and the emergence of Israel, London; New York: Continuum, 2009.
¿ Lindemann, Albert. The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank), 1894-1915. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
¿ Maccoby, Hyam. Antisemitism and Modernity: Innovation and Continuity. London: Routledge, 2006.
¿ Robertson Richard and Timms, Edward (eds). Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1997.
¿ Ro¿i, Yaacov. ¿The Zionist Attitude to the Arabs 1908-1914¿, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Apr., 1968) 198-242.
¿ Shavit, Yaakov. ¿Fire and Water: Ze¿ev Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement¿, Essential Papers in Zionism, 544-566.
¿ Shimoni, Gideon. The Zionist Ideology. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1997.
¿ Shlaim, Avi. ¿The Balfour Declaration And its Consequences¿, in Wm. Roger Louis, ed., Yet More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain, Austin: University of Texas Press; London : I.B. Tauris, 1998.
¿ Schneer, Jonathan. The Balfour Declaration: the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
¿ Vital, David. All his writings on Zionism
Week 3
Life in the Yishuv and Independence/Nakba. What makes a nation?
Required Reading
¿ Zerubavel, Yael. ¿Memory, the Rebirth or the Native, and ¿Hebrew Bedouin¿ Identity.¿ Social Research 75, no. 2 (2008): 315-352.
¿ Israel¿s Declaration of Independence (1948)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/declaration%20of%20establishment%20of%20state%20of%20israel.aspx
¿ Watch one testimony here: http://zochrot.org/en/testimony/all
Further Reading
¿ Akenson, Donald. God¿s Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel and Ulster. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. ¿
¿ Avnery, Uri. 1948 A Soldier¿s Tale: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem. Oxford: Oneworld, 2008.
¿ Ben-Bassat, Yuval. ¿Proto-Zionist-Arab Encounters in Late Nineteenth-Century Palestine: Socioregional Dimensions¿, Journal of Palestine Studies 38, No. 2 (Winter 2009) 42-63.
¿ Doumani, Beshara B., ¿Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History¿, Journal of Palestine Studies 21 no. 2 (Winter 1992) 5-28.
¿ Fellman, Jack. The Revival of A Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language. Mouton, 1975.
¿ Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
¿ Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. ¿
¿ Grosby, Steven. Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002.
¿ Hastings, Adrian. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
¿ Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies, Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1996.
¿ Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of ¿Transfer¿ in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948. Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
¿ Morris, Benny. ¿Revisiting the Palestinian Exodus of 1948,¿ in Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Pp. 37 ¿ 59.
¿ Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.
¿ Preminger, Otto, dir. Exodus, 1960.
¿ Said, Edward. ¿Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims¿, Social Text 1 (1979): 7-58
¿ Segev, Tom, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, London: Little, Brown and Company 2000.
¿ Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labour and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1882-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
¿ Smith, Anthony D. Chosen Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
¿ Swedenburg, Ted. Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 rebellion and the Palestinian national past. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
¿ Uris, Leon. Exodus. New York et al.: Bantam, 1958.
¿ Zerubavel, Yael. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Week 4
Israel, the Survivors, Holocaust Memory and Politics ¿ From Sabon to Secular Religion
Required Reading
¿ Grossmann, David ¿Momik¿ in See Under: Love. London: Vintage, 1989.
¿ Zimmermann, Moshe. ¿What is the Holocaust?¿ Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 20, no. 1-2 (2014): 45-56.
Further Reading
¿ Bilsky, Leora. Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004.
¿ Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. ¿How to Mend Love? Wrestling with the Legacy of the Holocaust in Recent Israeli Fiction¿, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 4, no.1 (2005): 81-100.
¿ Burg, Avraham. The Holocaust is Over; We Must Raise from its Ashes. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010.
¿ Grossman, David. ¿Confronting the Beast¿, The Guardian (September 15, 2007). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview2
¿ Ofer, Dalia. ¿The Strength of Remembrance: Commemorating the Holocaust During the First Decade of Israel¿, Jewish Social Studies 6, no 2 (2000): 24-55.
¿ Penkower, Monty Noam. The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignity. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinios Press, 1994.
¿ Porat, Dina. Israeli Society, the Holocaust and its Survivors. Elstree: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.
¿ Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York: Owl Books, 2000.
¿ Shaked, Gershon. ¿The Children of the Heart and the Monster¿, Modern Judaism 9, no. 3 (1989): 311-323.
¿ Shapira, Anita. ¿The Holocaust: Private Memories, Public Memory¿, Jewish Social Studies 4, no 2 (1998): 40-58.
¿ Zertal, Idith. Israel¿s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
¿ Yablonka, Hanna. ¿The Development of Holocaust Consciousness in Israel¿, Israel Studies 8 no. 3, (2004): 1-24.
Week 5
Opening Up Greater Israel versus Attempts at Peace: 1967, Religious Zionism, the Occupation and Settlement project.
Required Reading
¿ Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. ¿The Territories¿ (1969)
¿ Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. ¿Gaining Land but Losing Soul?¿, Journal for Palestine Studies 13, no. 2 (1984): 169-174.
¿ Eyal Weizman, ¿The Architecture of Occupation¿ (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ybwJaCeeA9o
Further Reading
¿ Bregman, Ahron. Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories. London: Penguin, 2014.
¿ Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City and the Middle East Conflict. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
¿ Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
¿ Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain and Caplan, Neil. Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities. 2nd Ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
¿ Eldar Akiva and Idit Zertal, Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel¿s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. Nation Books, 2007.
¿ Gorenberg, Gershom. The Unmaking of Israel. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.
¿ Gorenberg, Gershom. Occupied Territories: The Untold Story of Israel¿s Settlements. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
¿ Grossman, David. The Yellow Wind. New York: Picador, 1988.
¿ Inbari, Motti. Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
¿ Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
¿ Lockman, Zachary and Beinin, Joel (eds). Intifada: The Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, London: I.B. Tauris, 1990.
¿ Newman, David (ed). The Impact of Gush Emunim: Politics and Settlement in the West Bank. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
¿ Pedahzur, Ami. The Triumph of Israel¿s Radical Right. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
¿ Pedahzur, Ami and Arie Perliger. Jewish Terrorism in Israel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
¿ Ravitzky, Aviezer. Messianism, Zionism and Jewish Religious Radicalism. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996.
¿ Said, Edward. The End of the Peace Process, Oslo and After. London: Granta, 2000.
¿ Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for a State: The Palestinian National Movement 1949-1993. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
¿ Segev, Tom. 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.
¿ Veracini, Lorenzo. Israel and Settler Society. London: Pluto, 2006.
Week 6
Medinat Tel Aviv ¿ A Separate World of Bauhaus, Tolerance and Never-ending Parties?
Required Reading
¿ Fox, Eyal, dir. Ha¿Buah/The Bubble (2006).
¿ Maoz, Azaryahu. ¿Tel Aviv: center, periphery and the cultural geographies of an aspiring metropolis¿ Social & Cultural Geography 9, no 3 (2008): 303-318.
¿ Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona. ;The Walled City and the White City: The Construction of the Tel Aviv/ Jerusalem Dichotomy¿ Perspecta 39 (2007): 92-104.
Further Reading
¿ Harpaz, Nathan. Zionist Architecture and Town Planning: The Building of Tel Aviv, 1919-1929. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2013.
¿ Hatuka, Tali. Violent Acts and Urban Space in Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. ¿
¿ Helman, Anat. Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities Lebanon, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, 2010.
¿ Mann, Barbara. ¿Tel Aviv after 100: Notes toward a New Cultural History¿, Jewish Social Studies 16, no. 2 (2010): 93-110.
¿ Mann, Barbara. A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish, Urban Space Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
¿ Maoz, Azaryahu. Tel Aviv: Mythology of a City. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
¿ Maoz, Azaryahu and Troen, Ilan S. (eds.) Tel Aviv, the First Century: Visions: Designs, Actualities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
¿ Ram, Uri. ¿Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel¿, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 19, no. 1/2. (2005): 21-33.
¿ Rotbart, Sharon. White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. London: Pluto, 2015.
¿ Moriel, Liora. ¿Dana International: A Self-Made Jewish Diva¿, Race, Gender & Class: American Jewish Perspectives 6, no. 4, Race, Gender & Class (1999), pp. 110-124
Week 7
Israel¿s ¿Others¿: (Ultra-)orthodox, Mizrahi, Russian, and Ethiopian Minorities and the Ashkenazi Elite
Required Reading
¿ Shohat, Ella. ¿Reflections of an Arab Jew¿. http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/arab_jew.html
¿ Shams, Alex. ¿The Yemeni Sisters Whose Arabic Song Has Taken Israel by Storm.¿ October 1, 2016. The Wire. http://thewire.in/2015/10/01/the-yemeni-sisters-whose-arabic-song-has-taken-israel-by-storm-12012/
¿ Dar, Giddi dir. Ushpizin (2004).
Further Reading
¿ Behar, Moshe. ¿Mizrahim Abstracted: Action, Reflection, and the Academization of the Mizrahi Cause¿, Journal of Palestine Studies 37, no 2 (2008): 89-100.
¿ Ben-Rafael, Eliezer and Peres, Yochanan. Is Israel One? Religion, Nationalism and Multiculturalism Confounded. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
¿ Ben-Rafael, Eliezer. ¿The Faces of Religiosity in Israel: Cleavages or Continuum?¿, Israel Studies 13, no. 3, (2008): 89-113.
¿ Ben-Porat, Amir. ¿Class Structure in Israel: From Statehood to the 1980s¿, The British Journal of Sociology 48, no. 2 (1992): 225 -237.
¿ Chetrit, Sami Shalom. Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews. London: Routledge, 2010.
¿ Efron, Noah. Real Jews: Secular versus Ultra-Orthodox and the Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
¿ Elizur, Yakin and Malkin, Efron. The War Within: Israel¿s Ultra-Orthodox Threat to Democracy and the Nation. New York: Onelook Press, 2013.
¿ Ghanem, As¿ad. Ethnic Politics in Israel: The Margins and the Ashkenazi Center. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
¿ Horowitz, Amy. Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.
¿ Massad, Joseph. ¿Zionism's Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews¿, Journal of Palestine Studies 25, no 4 (1996): 53-68.
¿ Mendelson-Maoz, Adia. Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2014.
¿ Mizrahi, Smadar. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York: Berghahn, 2014.
¿ Ram, Haggai. ¿Between Homeland and Exile: Iranian Jewry in Zionist/Israeli Political Thought¿, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35, no 1 (2008): 1-20.
¿ Shenhav, Yehouda. The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
¿ Shohat, Ella. ¿Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims¿, Social Text 19/20 (1988): 1-35
¿ Snir, Reuven. Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities. Leiden: Brill 2015.
¿ Rebhun, Uzi and Chaim I. Waxman (eds). Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2004.
Week 8
Israel¿s Palestinians and Palestinian Jerusalemites
Required Reading
¿ Kashua, Sayed ¿Why Sayed Kashua is Leaving Jerusalem and never coming Back¿, Haaretz, July 04, 2014 http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/sayed-kashua/.premium-1.602869
¿ Ayman Odeh¿s First Knesset Speech (May 8, 2015)
http://972mag.com/vid-i-have-a-dream-ayman-odehs-maiden-knesset-speech/106491/
Translation: https://www.facebook.com/notes/sol-salbe/ayman-odeh-maiden-knesset-speech-4-may-2015/10152867398111662?pnref=lhc
¿ Yiftachel, Oren and Yacobi, Haim. ¿Urban Ethnocracy: Ethnicization and the Production of Space in an Israeli ¿Mixed City¿¿, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21 (2003): 673-693.
Further Reading
¿ Atashi, Zeidan, ¿The Druze in Israel and the Question of Compulsory Military Service¿, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 464 (15 Oct 2001).
¿ Benvenisti, Meron. Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 2000.
¿ Benvenisti, Meron. Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land. Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1995.
¿ Hillel, Cohen. Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010.
¿ Cohen, Hillel. The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967. London: Routledge, 2011.
¿ Ghanem, As¿ad. Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel 1948-2000: A Political Study. Albany: State University of New York, 2001.
¿ Jamal, Amal, Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel. London: Routledge, 2011.
¿ Khalidi, Rashid, Palestinian Identity: the Construction of Modern National Consciousness Columbia UP, 1997.
¿ Klein, Menachem. Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron. London: Hurst, 2014.
¿ Lustick, Ian. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel¿s Control of the National Minority. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.
¿ Matan, Dina. What it Means to Be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood. London, NY: I.B. Tauris 2011.
¿ Nusseibeh, Sari. Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life. New Edition. London: Halban, 2009.
¿ Pappe, Ilan. The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
¿ Robinson, Shira. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel¿s Liberal Settler State. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
¿ Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine, London: Routledge, 1980.
¿ Shehadeh, Raja and Penny Johnson (eds) Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2013.
¿ Shlaim, Avi, ¿The Oslo Accord¿, Journal of Palestine Studies 23, no. 3 (1994): 24-40.
¿ Shoughry, Nida. ¿Israeli-Arab¿ Political Mobilization: Between Acquiescence, Participation, and Resistance. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012.
Week 9
Living in Violence: Wars, Military, and Terrorism
Required Reading
¿ Folman, Ari dir. Waltz with Bashir (2008).
¿ Roth, Natasha. ¿There¿s No Such Thing as a Moral Army¿, December 24, 2015 http://972mag.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-moral-army/115055/
¿ Short interview with Yuli Novak of Breaking the Silence
http://mitchellplitnick.com/2015/12/22/video-yuli-novak-of-breaking-the-silence-a-brilliant-interview/
¿ Please have a look at http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il
Further Reading
¿ Bar-On, Mordechai (ed). Never-Ending Conflict: Israeli Military History. Mechanicsburg: Stockpole Books, 2006.
¿ Bregman, Ahron. Israel¿s Wars: A History since 1947. 3rd ed. Routledge, 2010.
¿ Golan, Zev. Stern: The Man and His Gang. Tel Aviv: Gefen, 2011.
¿ Harel, Amos and Avi Issacharoff, 34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in Lebanon, Palgrave, 2008.
¿ Harris, Rachel and Omer-Sherman, Ranen (ed). Narratives of Dissent: War in Israeli Arts and Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012.
¿ Heller, Joseph. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror. London: Routledge, 2012.
¿ Horovitz, David. Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism. New York: Knopf, 2004.
¿ Hroub, Khaled. Hamas: Political Thought and Practice. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 2000.
¿ Jones, Clive and Catignani, Sergio (eds), Israel and Hizbollah: an asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective. New York: Routledge, 2009
¿ Keynan, Irit. Psychological War Trauma and Society: Like a Hidden Wound. London: Routledge, 2015.
¿ Levy, Yagil. ¿An Unbearable War: War Casualties and Warring Democracies¿, International Journal for Politics, Culture, and Society 22, no. 1 (2009): 69-82.
¿ Modan, Rutu. Exit Wounds. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
¿ Pedahzur, Ami and Arie Perliger. Jewish Terrorism in Israel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
¿ Pedahzur, Ami. Suicide Terrorism. Cambridge: Polity, 2009.
¿ Raviv, Amiram et al. ¿Young Israelis¿ Reactions to Trauma: The Rabin Assassination and Terror Attacks.¿ Political Psychology (2000): 299-322.
¿ Tyler, Patrick. Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country -and Why They Can¿t Make Peace. London: Portobello, 2012.
¿ Yosef, Raz. ¿Traces of War: Memory, Trauma, and the Archive in Joseph Cedar¿s ¿Beaufort¿¿, Cinema Journal 50, no 2 (2011): 61-83.
Week 10
Is there a Solution? Contested Narratives, Memory, and Empathy
Required Reading
¿ Yaalon, Moshe, ¿The False Palestinian Narrative¿, Israel Hayom, September 23, 2011 (http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=532)
¿ Hillal Jamil, ¿Reclaiming the Palestinian Narrative¿, Al-Shabaka, January 6, 2013 (http://al-shabaka.org/node/558) ¿
¿ Avnery, Uri. Truth against Truth: A Completely Different Look at the Israeli Palestinian Conflict. 3rd ed. Tel Aviv: Gush Shalom (2010).
Further Reading
¿ Bar-Tal, Dan, Oren, Neta, and Rafi Nets-Zehngut, ¿Socio-Psychological Analysis of Conflict-Supporting Narratives: A General Framework¿, Journal of Peace Research 51, no. 5, (2014): 662¿675.
¿ Bar-Tal, Daniel and Halperin, Eran ¿The Nature of Socio-Psychological Barriers to Peaceful Conflict Resolution and Ways to Overcome Them¿, conflict and communication online 12, no. 2, (2013): 1¿16.
¿ Bashir, Bashir and Amos Goldberg. ¿Deliberating the Holocaust and the Nakba: Disruptive Empathy and Binationalism in Israel/Palestine¿, Journal for Genocide Research 16, vol. 1 (2014): 77¿99.
¿ Hirschfeld, Yair, ¿The Failure of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, 1993-2000¿, Journal of Peace Research 42 (2005): 719-736.
¿ Lesch, Ann M. and Lustick, Ian (eds). Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
¿ Nets-Zehngut, Rafi. ¿Palestinians and Israelis collaborate in addressing the historical narratives of their conflict; in Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 5, (2013): 232-255.
¿ Golani, Motti and Adel Manna. Two Sides of the Coin: Independence and Nakba 1948 ¿ Two Narratives of the 1948 War and its Outcome. Dordrecht: Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, 2011.
¿ Hochberg, Gil Z. In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of the Separatist Imagination. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007.
¿ Omer, Atalia. When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
¿ Roberts, Jo. Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel¿s Arabs and Jews and the Ghosts of Catastrophe. Toronto: Dundurn, 2013.
¿ Wertsch, James. ¿A Clash of Deep Memories.¿ Profession 8, no 1 (2008): 46¿53.
¿ Wilkes, George ¿Religious Attitudes to the Middle East Peace Process¿, in Philip Broadhead, ed., Can Faiths Make Peace?, London: IB Tauris, 2006, pp. 25-35.
Week 11
Summary and Revision
Please go over all your notes and come prepared to discuss the larger themes of this class, including antisemitism, Zionism, conflict, occupation, etc. Remember to bring along questions that have come up in your preparation for the exam.
Required Reading
¿ Stein, Harvey, dir. A Third Way (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrMh22szsw
¿ Diab, Khaled. ¿The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is Not About Religion¿, Haaretz, August 17, 2015. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.671543
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
This course contributes to the development of the following graduate abilities:
- Collect and synthesise evidence from a wide range of primary and secondary sources applicable to the study of religion;
- Evaluate and critique the work of scholars who have studied religions, both in the contemporary period and in the history of the discipline;
- Formulate questions emerging from the study of religions and structure an argument to express resolutions to the questions critically and analytically.
- Read and interpret a range of different sources for the study of religions within their historical, social and theoretical contexts and be able to differentiate primary from secondary sources.
- Engage and draw on an understanding of religious traditions and cultures to inform the approach taken when dealing with views different from one's own;
- Analyse and explain how cultural assumptions impact on the interpretation of religions;
- Express clearly ideas and arguments, both orally and in writing and in electronic media;
- Develop oral presentation and participation skills during seminars and group-work, and in written form through essays.
- Collaborate efficiently and productively with others in the process of learning and presenting conclusions - this includes those with a range of backgrounds and knowledge bases about religion, such as fellow-students, tutors and supervisors;
- Organise their own learning, manage workload and work to a timetable;
- Effectively plan, and possess the confidence to undertake and to present scholarly work that demonstrates an understanding of the aims, methods and theoretical considerations relevant to Religious Studies; and
- Work independently on the creation of essays using the standards current in the academic field of Religious Studies.
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| Keywords | Israel,Judaism,Zionism,Nationalism,Palestine,Conflict |
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| Course organiser | Dr Nina Fischer
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