The Crusading Past and the Israeli Present: Between History and Autobiography in the Work of Igael Tumarkin

Yamit Rachman-Schrire, Iris Shagrir

פרסום מחקרי: פרסום בכתב עתמאמרביקורת עמיתים

תקציר

The "Zionist-Crusader analogy" is a recurring trope in Israeli politics and society. The present article focuses on an overlooked aspect of this analogy, the visual and artistic expression of supposed similarity and distinction between the medieval Latin kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291) and the State of Israel. We examine the visual and literary output of renowned Israeli artist Igael Tumarkin (1933–2021) whose crusades-related art embodies the tensions between past and present, east and west, and personal and collective memory. An in-depth study of a few of Tumarkin's artworks and writings reveals the artist's unique viewpoint on the "Zionist-Crusader" historiographical framework. These works, it is argued, inhabit two main interpretive frames, which are intricately connected. The first reflects, though not always consistently, the extent to which contemporary Israel "belongs" within the greater Levantine context; the second is the artist's reflection on his own identity as a Jew born in Germany and an Israeli citizen, who often perceives himself as an outsider navigating between different cultural iconographies and identities.
שפה מקוריתאנגלית
עמודים (מ-עד)88-112
מספר עמודים25
כתב עתIsrael Studies
כרך29
מספר גיליון2
מזהי עצם דיגיטלי (DOIs)
סטטוס פרסוםפורסם - 2024

הערה ביבליוגרפית

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© 2024 Indiana University Press. All rights reserved.

RAMBI publications

  • rambi
  • Tumarkin, Igael -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Art, Israeli
  • Zionism and art
  • Crusades in art
  • Zionism -- Historiography
  • Crusades -- Historiography
  • National characteristics, Israeli
  • Jews, German -- Israel -- Identity
  • Jerusalem (Israel) -- History -- 1099-1244, Latin Kingdom, Crusaders
  • Israel -- History -- War of Independence, 1948-1949

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