Contributions by:

Ernest Goldberger

Israel’s Identity Crisis

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The theme of identity is a fateful and powerful motive force pervading the history of Zionism and of the State of Israel. Its stamp can be felt in the pictures we view viewed today of mass demonstrations, of streets slicked with oil and strewn with nails, of dummy bombs placed by “religious” soldiers in the Jerusalem…

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The Power Of Myths In Israeli Society: Historical Realities And Political Dogmatizing 

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Practically all peoples, nations and societies have recourse to a treasury of legends, tales or poetic fictions stemming from their more or less remote antiquity. These are mostly enacted by supernatural beings or by human heroes, expressing in terms of fable or story, interpretations of the world and idealized conceptions of life, and sometimes serve,…

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