This course will examine some of the key issues in the history of Zionism and the development of Israeli culture, politics, and society. In seeking to create a radical new society, Israelis have created a unique culture that blends traditional Jewish culture in its Middle Eastern, Western European and Eastern European forms. We will study major themes in Zionist and Israeli history and the development of Israeli literature, film, music, and popular culture, through a focus on the central questions that have both unified and divided Israeli society and politics.
Furthermore, the course intends to look into further important internal questions of Israeli Society, such as minorities, diversity of Israeli Society and historical integration of the various ethnical groups of Israeli Society.
We intend during the course to look also into historical processes within Israeli Society, including the socialist movement and the Kibbutzim, social welfare, social economic structures of Israel. A specific section shall be dedicated to the relations of the state of Israel and Jewish Diaspora.
Western Wall in Jerusalem 1929
Basan, Tsadok. English: Western Wall in Jerusalem 1929עברית: הכותל המערבי ,Original Image Name: הכותל המערבי ,Notes: Source: Documentors - Vivienne Silver Brody ,Location: ירושלים. 1929. The Israel Internet Association via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_52537_western_wall_in_jerusalem_1929.jpg.
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Chief of Staff Rav Aluf Yitzhak Rabin (L) Greeting Foreign Min. Christopher Soames, in the British Conservative Party’s “Shadow Cabinet,” Tel Aviv. January 27, 1966. This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office (link), under the digital ID D174-153.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربيَّة | English | עברית | македонски | +/−. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chief_of_Staff_Rav_Aluf_Yitzhak_Rabin_(L)_Greeting_Foreign_Min._Christopher_Soames_(D174-153).jpg.