Zionism - Emotions, Language and Experience

Is the history of emotions a methodology or a subject? What is the relationship between emotions and culture? What role does the body play in the human experience? Addressing these questions and more, this element emphasizes the often-overlooked role of emotional and sensory experiences when examining the Zionist experience in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the visceral and embodied historical aspects of the linguistic modernization of Hebrew, it argues that recent cultural studies on Jewish daily life in Palestine have reached an impasse, which the history of emotions could help us overcome. Interpreting Zionist texts not solely as symbolic myths but as a historical, lived experience, this element advocates for the significance of the history of emotions and experience as an innovative methodology with profound ethical implications for our polarized era.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Experience: emotions, culture and the history of Zionism; 2. Hebrew revival: cultural history and the experience of language; 3. Eating the grain: reading sources, ethics and receptiveness; 4. A brief epilogue on the emotions of past and present; References.

Summary

This Element emphasizes the overlooked role of emotional and sensory experiences when examining the Zionist experience in the early twentieth century. This Element advocates for the significance of the history of emotions and experience as an innovative methodology with profound ethical implications for our polarized era.

Foreword

This Element establishes the history of emotions as a methodology that can overcome the limitations of cultural history.

Product details

• Authors: Ofer Idels, Ofer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munic Idels
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009517423
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0951742-3
• No. of pages: 56
• Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social groups, Popular psychology, Psychology: emotions, Middle Eastern history, Emotions and emotional intelligence, Social groups, communities and identities