[Peace-discuss] Friday: Exodus and the Americanization of Zionism

[David Green]

Exodus and the Americanization of Zionism

Friday, November 05, 2010
4:00 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory Street
Urbana
 
Amy Kaplan
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania


Exodus, the best-selling 1958 novel and 1960 film, marketed the new state of 
Israel to Americans. Exodus crated an Israeli myth of origins that appealed to 
American conceptions of its own revolution.  This myth of Israel's "specialness" 
mirrored American exceptionalism in the Cold War.  Created in the aftermath of 
the 1956 Suez Crisis, Exodus became the dominant narrative of Israel's birth but 
is haunted by the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba.

Hosted by: International Forum for US Studies
 
http://cas.illinois.edu/events/millercom.aspx

In conjunction with: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 
Department of English, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Program in Jewish 
Culture and Society, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory


      
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