Semiotics of Israeli Space and Time

Analyses by the Israeli sociologist Michael Feige embraced every aspect of the State of Israel. He examined the ever-changing and complex identity of Israelis; how they remember and commemorate themselves; the long- and short-term conceptions of time of the left- and right-wing political movements; the spacial concept of the settlers; myths underlying the lives and deaths of its citizens; and the dialectical vicissitudes of the real and imagined Israel.
The book contains material from Professor Feige’s literary output, contextualized in an Introduction by David Ohana. Chapters delve into the meaning of Israeli signs and symbols; the semiotics of secular spaces (sites of disasters and graves of political and religious leaders); the semiotics of historical time and daily existence; forms of commemoration (of figures like David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, airforce pilots, a female settler and a peace activist). Feige scrutinized communities formed around political cells, the processes of fragmentation and globalization in Israel, the traumas and scars from the Yom Kippur War, the evacuation of settlements, and the killing of Yitzhak Rabin. Feige’s scrutiny illuminated Israeli

Analizele efectuate de sociologul israelian Michael Feige au cuprins fiecare aspect al statului Israel. El a examinat identitatea in continua schimbare si complexa a israelienilor; modul in care isi amintesc si se comemoreaza; conceptiile de timp pe termen lung si scurt ale miscarilor politice de stanga si de dreapta; conceptul spatial al colonistilor; mituri care stau la baza vietii si mortilor cetatenilor sai; si vicisitudinile dialectice ale Israelului real si imaginat. Cartea contine materiale din productia literara a profesorului Feige, contextualizata intr-o Introducere de David Ohana.