The shaping of Israeli identity : myth, memory, and trauma / edited by Robert Wistrich and David Ohana.

"This group of studies first appeared in a Special issue of Israel affairs, vol. 1, no. 3 (spring 1995)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theodor Herzl : Zionist Icon, Myth-Maker, and Social Utopian / Robert Wistrich -- Zarathustra in Jerusalem: Nietzsche and the "New Hebrews" / David Ohana -- Ben-Gurion's Mythopoetics / Ze'ev Tzahor -- The Zionist Right and National Liberation: From Jabotinsky to Avraham Stern / Joseph Heller -- The Multivocality of a National Myth: Memory and Counter-Memories of Masada / Yael Zerubavel -- Political Dimensions of Holocaust Memory in Israel / Yechiam Weitz -- "In Everlasting Memory": Individual and Communal Holocaust Commemoration in Israel / Judith Baumel -- Paradigms Sometimes Fit: The Haredi Response to the Yom Kippur War / Charles Liebman -- Isaac Rebound: The Aqedah as a Paradigm in Modern Hebrew Poetry / Ruth Kartun-Blum -- Israel as a Post-Zionist Society / Eric Cohen -- The Jewish-Arab Conflict in Recent Israeli Literature / Leon Yudkin -- Modernity and Charisma in Contemporary Israel: The Case of Baba Sali and Baba Baruch / Yoram Bilu and Eyal Ben-Ari