Promotional Information

The Hebrew version of this novel won the 1998 Ish-Shalom award of the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, for historical research on Israeli society.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 
Translator's Note 
Introduction 
1. Idealistic Euphoria 
2. The Elect Son of the Chosen People 
3· Dunce Cap 
4· The Stamp of His Country's Landscape 
5· Uri of Arabia 
6. Monks in Khaki 
7· Our Gang 
Epilogue 
Notes 
Glossary 
Bibliography 
Index

About the Author

Oz Almog is a senior lecturer in sociology at Emek Yezreel College, Israel. He is the author of The Linguistic Culture of the Kibbutz Youth (1993).

Reviews

"A buccaneering voyage of revisionist exploration. As a portrait of the elite cohort which dominated Israeli society in its formative years, this original and sympathetic book carries almost total conviction."--"Times Literary Supplement