{"product_id":"to-build-and-be-built-landscape-literature-and-the-construction-of-zionist-identity-hardback-9780812239034","title":"To Build and Be Built; Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist Identity (Hardback) 9780812239034","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTo Build and Be Built\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLandscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEric Zakim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812239034\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 February 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 9 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A ambitious, scholarly study of the relationship between the meaning of the slogan, 'Livnot u lhibanot ba' ('To build and be built by \/ in it'-words from a popular Zionist folksong), and the actual development of the land and its people during the first four decades of the past century.\" (\u003ci\u003eAssociation of Jewish Libraries Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eTo Build and Be Built\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the methodological certainties that have guided popular and academic understandings of the development of Zionist involvement in the land of Israel.\" (\u003ci\u003eLifestyles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Zakim follows the literary and intellectual career of the powerful Zionist slogan \"to build and be built\" from its conceptual origin in reaction to the Kishinev pogroms of 1903, when it first served as an expression of settlement aspiration, until the end of pre-state national expansion in Palestine in 1938. \"Draining the swamps\" and \"making the desert bloom,\" the Jewish settlers imagined themselves as performing \"miracles\" on the land. By these acts, they were also meant to reinvent the very notion of what it was to be a Jew in the modern world. As Jewish settlers reshaped nature in the Holy Land by turning it from one thing into another, they too were newly constructed. Zakim argues that in the period leading up to the establishment of the state of Israel, the action of working the land and building its cities in order to transform both into something essentially Jewish increasingly came to mark a turn inward toward the reclamation of a Jewish subject tied to the very soil of Palestine.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTo Build and Be Built\u003c\/i\u003e radically recontextualizes modernist Hebrew literature to demonstrate how literary aesthetics of nature formed the very political discourse they nominally reflected. Zakim's work sees no division between politics and representation. Instead, the depiction of nature in literature, art, and architecture became constitutive of a political and social understanding of the Jew's place in the Middle East. By refusing to acknowledge the disciplinary boundaries of standard works on literature, history, and political thought, \u003ci\u003eTo Build and Be Built\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the methodological certainties that have guided popular and academic understandings of the development of Zionist involvement in the land of Israel. For this reason, \u003ci\u003eTo Build and Be Built\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to people beyond literature, in particular those working in history and those outside of Israel studies who have an interest in modernism and the representation of nature in the history of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. To Build and Be Built\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Belated Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Poetics of Malaria\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Hebrew Poet as Producer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Landscape of a Zionist Orient\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Natural History of Tel Aviv\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Land Bites Back\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555708104984,"sku":"9780812239034","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/to-build-and-be-built-landscape-literature-and-the-construction-of-zionist-identity-hardback-9780812239034","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}