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Postzionism Debates »

Authors: Laurence J. Silberstein
ISBN-13: 9780415913157, ISBN-10: 0415913152
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Laurence J. Silberstein

Laurence J. Silberstein is the Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Studies at Lehigh University. He is the author of Martin Buber's Social and Religious Philosophy (1989, and has edited several collections.

Book Synopsis

The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space. Laurence J. Silberstein analyzes the phenomenon of postzionism and provides an intervention into this debate.

Tikkun - Daniel Boyarin

One of the most important books on Israeli culture...Its documents for the first time in English major shifts in Israeli culture, as well as peripherally in Jewish political culture outside of Israel.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Mapping Zionism/Zionist Mapping	15
Ch. 2	Critique of Zionism: Critics from Within	47
Ch. 3	Critique of Zionism: Critics from Without	67
Ch. 4	Postzionism: The Academic Debates	89
Ch. 5	Palestinian Critics and Postzionist Discourse: Anton Shammas and Emile Habiby	127
Ch. 6	Postzionism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonial Theory: A Radical Postzionist Critique	165
	Concluding Reflections	207
	Endnotes	211
	References	241
	Index	263