Distinguishing between Jewish, Zionist, Hebrew, and Israeli literature. Zionism as a ‘melting pot’ and the revival of the Hebrew language. Yishuv’s cultural and language politics in the Mandate period. Zionist pioneers’ literature. The image of the Arab in the Hebrew literature. The Hebrew University, the Hebrew language, and the “Negation of the Diaspora culture”. The 1948 moment and the institution of culture and literature. Hebraizing the landscape and the cultural scene. The state as a second ‘melting pot’ and the inauguration of a national culture. Israelization of the mosaic of cultural products and experiences (Mizrahi, Arab, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Ethiopian, Russian, Popular, and Queer). The impact of the 1967 war, and resulting the expansion of the settler-colonial project, on culture and literature. Neo- and post-Zionism. Translation and globalization.
