Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity

Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews Israel’s Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and taking us up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country. How do Israelis define their collective identity in the region? Are they modern crusaders? Do they belong to the Middle East, to Europe, to the global village? Perhaps they do not have to choose between the local and the global. The cultural survey in this book of the contemporary visual arts, popular music, literature, and architecture in Israel reveals the young Israeli society as a vividly Mediterranean one. Israel and its Mediterranean Identity aspires to examine the Mediterranean option for Israel--a multi-cultural society situated between east and west.