Oct 3 and Oct 5
The 1948 Generation: The Akedah and The Nakba
WATCH: Image of Victory (2021 – on Netflix). For those without Netflix, Instructor will make available.
READ:
HI: p. 155-176
ITME: p. 72-92
Supplementary Reading:
*-Alterman, “The Silver Platter”
*-S. Yizhar, “The Prisoner” (Alter, 290-310)
*Benny Morris, 1948
October 3rd
Topic: A New State: Ashkenazim and Sephardim
READ:
HI: p. 179-247
ITME: p. 102-105; The Law of Return
Discussion: In what ways does Sallah Shabbati satirize the state of Israel? Do you find this satire to be effective? Why or why not?
Supplementary Reading:
*-Ella Shohat, “The Bourekas and Sephardi Representation,” in Israeli Cinema. Available with free acccount at Archive.org, or in BC Library.
October 5th
Topic: A New State in the Shadow of the Holocaust -Reparations Agreement and the Eichmann Affair
Growing Pains—The Fifties
Documents:
The Debate on a Constitution
The Law of Return
The German Reparations
The Brother Daniel Case
The Capture of Adolf Eichmann
READ*: Hanoch Bartov, excerpt from The Brigade
*Sharon Geva on the Eichmann Trial
HI: p. 248-268;
ITME: p. 106-108; 167-168
WATCH – excerpts from Eichmann Trial
October 12th and October 17th
Facing the Other: Jews and Arabs
*-A.B. Yehoshua, “Facing the Forests” (Alter, p. 351-392)
READ: *-Yitzhak Epstein reading from TJMW
-Other influences on Israeli culture- food and music
Discussion: What is Yehoshua’s critique of Zionist policy in Facing the Forests? What metaphors does he use in the story and are they appropriate?
Nasser and the Suez crisis
October 19th and October 24th
1967, Greater Israel, Yom Kippur, and the Loss of Innocence
HI: p. 271-353
ITME: p. 220-250
FILM: Late Summer Blues (if available) or Valley of Tears (2020)
READ: *-Charles Liebman, “The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur War in Israeli Society”
*-Excerpt from Michael Oren, Six Days of War
October 24th discussion: Late Summer Blues or Valley of Tears
WATCH: Waltz with Bashir on Lebanon War, 1982 (2008)
October 26th and October 31st
The Haredi-Hiloni Divide; A State of Jews or a Jewish State?
Discussion: Read op-ed on the “other two state solution.” What is the author’s argument about needing to separate Israel into religious and secular states? How might Israel reconcile the internal (and growing) divide between the haredim and hilonim?
Zvi Yehuda Kook (ZI)
Optional FILM: Ushpizin
*Peter Lintl, “The Haredim as a Challenge for the Jewish State” SWP, 2020
*“Statehood vs. Peoplehood” and the meaning of Zionism
Documents:
*Gush Emunim (ZI)
* Halkin, Letter to an American Jewish Friend (ZI)
November 2st and November 7th
The Intifadas, The Territories, The Peace Process and Israeli Society: Shir Le-Shalom before and after Rabin
ITME: p. 560-564
HI: p. 357-466
-Israeli Music in the 1980s and 90s Gadalnu Yachad
READ: *The Yellow Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4rlCeQsCoM (The Sticker Song)
WATCH THE SETTLERS documentary