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.
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
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).
"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
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