Eros and tragedy : Jewish male fantasies and the masculine revolution of Zionism / Ofer Nordheimer Nur.

Jewish male fantasies and the masculine revolution of Zionism

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

xxiv, 220 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [194]-211).

Introduction -- Eastern Galicia and Vienna : Hashomer, Tse'irei Tsiyon, and the origins of Hashomer Hatzair -- The "sexual problem" in the youth movement : from denial, to love, to eros -- Tragic man : an aesthetic of anarchism -- Eros and tragedy : Dionysos in the Galilee -- Martin Buber and Gustav Landauer : Gemeinschaft and subterranean Judaism -- Dancing, working, and public confessions : the Eda takes its form -- The Eda of Hashomer Hatzair as Männerbund : a Jewish male fantasy comes full Central European circle -- The tragic hero metamorphoses into a sensitive man.