Rocco Giansante, Ph.D (2019) is a film scholar. He has written, among other things, about transnational Israeli cinema and Nanni Moretti. He currently works at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.Luna Goldberg, M.A. (2018) is a curator, author, and museum educator, specializing in contemporary art and identity politics. She currently serves as the education manager at Florida International University’s Jewish Museum of Florida and The Wolfsonian.

• List of FiguresIntroductionRocco Giansante and Luna GoldbergPart 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli IdentityGuy Eldar2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz YisraelNoa Avron Barak3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International ComicsOfer BerensteinPart 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American StageEllen W. Kaplan5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American LiteratureSamantha Pickette6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-ChartingChelsea Haines7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime FictionReeva Spector Simon8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish StateRocco GiansantePart 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in VeniceLuna Goldberg10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance TheaterIdit Suslik11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the HolocaustSamuel Thrope12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British TheaterGlenda AbramsonPart 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian ArtKeren Goldberg14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe StageJacob Hellman15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona YefmanYarden SternIndex

Rocco Giansante, Ph.D (2019) is a film scholar. He has written, among other things, about transnational Israeli cinema and Nanni Moretti. He currently works at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.Luna Goldberg, M.A. (2018) is a curator, author, and museum educator, specializing in contemporary art and identity politics. She currently serves as the education manager at Florida International University’s Jewish Museum of Florida and The Wolfsonian.

• List of FiguresIntroductionRocco Giansante and Luna GoldbergPart 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli IdentityGuy Eldar2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz YisraelNoa Avron Barak3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International ComicsOfer BerensteinPart 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American StageEllen W. Kaplan5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American LiteratureSamantha Pickette6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-ChartingChelsea Haines7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime FictionReeva Spector Simon8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish StateRocco GiansantePart 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in VeniceLuna Goldberg10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance TheaterIdit Suslik11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the HolocaustSamuel Thrope12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British TheaterGlenda AbramsonPart 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian ArtKeren Goldberg14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe StageJacob Hellman15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona YefmanYarden SternIndex

Rocco Giansante, Ph.D (2019) is a film scholar. He has written, among other things, about transnational Israeli cinema and Nanni Moretti. He currently works at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.Luna Goldberg, M.A. (2018) is a curator, author, and museum educator, specializing in contemporary art and identity politics. She currently serves as the education manager at Florida International University’s Jewish Museum of Florida and The Wolfsonian.

• List of FiguresIntroductionRocco Giansante and Luna GoldbergPart 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli IdentityGuy Eldar2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz YisraelNoa Avron Barak3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International ComicsOfer BerensteinPart 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American StageEllen W. Kaplan5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American LiteratureSamantha Pickette6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-ChartingChelsea Haines7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime FictionReeva Spector Simon8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish StateRocco GiansantePart 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in VeniceLuna Goldberg10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance TheaterIdit Suslik11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the HolocaustSamuel Thrope12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British TheaterGlenda AbramsonPart 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian ArtKeren Goldberg14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe StageJacob Hellman15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona YefmanYarden SternIndex