Hannah Wolinsky
Blog Questions Due Wednesday December 4
Who were
the Canaanites and what kind of Israeli culture did they advocate?
The Canaanites
was a very small group of individuals who contributed a great deal to the
formation of modern Israeli culture. They denied the Diaspora and felt that Jews
and Arabs could live together. It was a goal of the Canaanite party to liberate
Jews from Judaism and Arabs from Islam. They were quite radical in the sense
that they rejected Judaism and Jewish history. They believed that instead of
those things, the people should have a sense of “Hebrew universalism.” The
Canaanites said that a large part of the Kedem, meaning east, formed a community
rich in Hebrew.
Why was
political and cultural integration of Holocaust survivors into Israeli society
so difficult for them?
Many Zionists
wanted to believe in only the strength and the positive attributes of the Jews
in Israel. They were in denial to the struggles still faced by Holocaust
survivors living in Israel. Zionists felt that these holocaust survivors “must
learn love of the homeland, a work ethic, and human morals.” The holocaust
survivors, on the other hand, felt it was their job to share their experiences.
This was a problem because most people living in Israel did not even want to
hear about the holocaust, rather they just wanted to focus on the present.
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