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Elvis in Jerusalem : post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel by Tom Segev, Haim Watzman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**As the Middle East conflict enters its most violent phase, Tom Segev offers a lively, contentious polemic against cherished and rigid notions of Israel's national unity and culture.** In his many works of history, Tom Segev has challenged the entrenched understanding of crucial moments in Israel's past. Now, in a short, sharp, polemical book, Segev has turned his sights from Israeli history to confront some revered assumptions about the country today. Drawing on personal experience as well as all kinds of artifacts from Israeli popular culture — shopping malls, fast food, public art, television, religious kitsch — Segev offers a controversial point of view: the sweeping Americanization of the country, rued by most, has had an extraordinarily beneficial influence, bringing not only McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts but the virtues of pragmatism, tolerance, and individualism. And, in the fierce battle over the future of Zionism, Segev welcomes the diffusion of national identity and ideology that has taken place in the last decade as a harbinger of a new spirit of compromise and openness. At a time of crisis, as Israelis and Palestinians retreat to their most embattled positions, Segev'

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Author

Tom Segev, Haim Watzman

Publisher

Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805072884

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science