A talk by Dr. Nili Alon Amit, Israel Institute Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Event held November 21, 2019.
About the Talk This talk explored the sources of the Love of Zion – religious, philosophical and poetic – from Hellenistic Biblical literature to Jewish philosophers Philo of Alexandria, Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon and Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, to the literature of early modern Israeli pioneers, such as A. D. Gordon and Rachel Bluwstein Sela. find how the various ancient, medieval and early modern trends of thought culminate in contemporary Israeli love of the land – through the poems of Naomi Shemer and Ehud Manor.
About the Speaker Dr. Nili Alon Amit is the 2019-20 Israel Institute Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and a researcher and lecturer of philosophy of soul and philosophy of education at Hakibbutzim Academic College in Tel Aviv, Israel. She received her Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy from Haifa University. Alon Amit is the author of the forthcoming book: On Happy Souls: The History of Soul in Western Culture (Cambridge Scholars, 2020).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Center for the Study of Religion.
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Duration: 00:42:25