Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction

Myths and Simulation -- Youth and Post-Zionist Simulations -- Forget Zionism? -- Capturing Time-Space -- Myths of the Body and the Territory -- Israeli Collectivism in Retrospective -- Beyond Collectivism

Resolving Social Inequalities: The Ethnic Discourse

Five Root Metaphors -- Community as Instant Acculturation -- Afterword: Community as Simulation

Revisiting the Holocaust: The Historical Discourse

The Holocaust in Israeli Eyes: A Brief History of Collective Images -- The School Delegations -- The Ministry's Course -- School Preparations -- Reading the Holocaust -- Afterword: The Holocaust as Simulation

Serializing War: The Interrupted Discourse

Israel in the Gulf War -- Framing the Text -- A Poetics of Reversal -- Global Reponses to the GulfWar -- Local Responses: The Interrupted System -- Afterword: The GulfWar as Simulation

Taming Youth Culture: The Generational Discourse

The Plot -- Late Summer Blues as a Mythical Structure -- The Group -- ``Individualism'' versus ``Collectivism'' -- A Rite of Passage -- The Tel-Aviv Syndrome -- Afterword: Blues as Simulation

Living after the Assassination: The Political Discourse

Rabin's Two Bodies -- ``Our Father Has Gone'' -- Afterword: Rabin's Bereavement as Simulation

Epilogue

References

Index