Zionism and Melancholy – The Short Life of Israel Zarchi Lebovic Paperback

Zionism and MelancholyThe Short Life of Israel Zarchi\nAuthor(s): Nitzan Lebovic\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253041821, 978-0253041821\nSynopsis\nNitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent. Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional pressure but as the effect of a long-lasting \""left-wing melancholy.\"" In order to understand its grip onIsraeli society, Lebovic turns to the novels and short stories of Israel [url] him, Zarchi aptly describes the gap between the utopianhopepresent in Zionism since its early days and the melancholic real.