{"product_id":"glory-and-agony-yael-feldman-9780804759021","title":"Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlory and Agony\u003c\/i\u003e is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting \"primal scene\" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging sources from the domains of literature, art, psychology, philosophy, and politics. By placing these sources in conversation with twentieth-century thinking on human sacrifice, violence, and martyrdom, this study draws a complex picture that provides multiple, sometimes contradictory insights into the genesis and gender of national sacrifice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtending back over two millennia, this study unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female--Isaac, Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus. \u003ci\u003eGlory and Agony\u003c\/i\u003e traces the birth of national sacrifice out of the ruins of religious martyrdom, exposing the sacred underside of Western secularism in Israel as elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yael Feldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804759022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804759021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011","brand":"Yael Feldman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120258871551,"sku":"9780804759021","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d970108c-bf74-440e-84e7-271f21dc0b1d.jpg?v=1687413348","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/glory-and-agony-yael-feldman-9780804759021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}