McGill-Queen’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Series
A groundbreaking exploration of the cultural contributions of Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel over the past thirty years, Dual Diaspora investigates how writers, filmmakers, and visual artists reconcile their Soviet past with their Israeli present.
Created in the Image? describes the paradigm shift in the way Israeli writers have imagined Holocaust perpetrators since 1948.
Since Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, Israeli settler organizations have used narratives of indigeneity to claim divine rights to the land. Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what indigeneity means to Israeli settlers, and how settler-indigeneity interacts with transnational settler-colonial histories.
Fictions of Gender explores how contemporary controversies surrounding Zionism and feminism are prefigured in the legacies of early Zionist women. Studying archival documents and writings from the first eighty years of the Zionist project, Zakai confronts the experiences of Zionist women with the sensibilities of contemporary global feminism.
The Movers investigates the deeper historical roots and wider social contexts of key Israeli artworks and their public reception.
