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Contents Acknowledgements xi List of Figures xiii Part I Preamble: Designs and Depositions 1 The Collapse of Versailles and the Nation-in-Arms 3 Versailles Collapses, The State Ascends 7 The Versailles Public Event 7 The Nation-in-Arms, The Family-in-Arms 12 The Event of Presentation 16 2 Bureaucratic Logic 19 The Monothetic Forming of Form 20 Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Classification 22 Bureaucratic Logic in the Science of Police 29 Bureaucratic Logic and the State-Form 33 The Bureaucratization of Politics in Jewish Palestine 38 3 Making Jews National in their Citizenship 43 Citizenship 44 Shaping Nationality 45 Who is a Jew? 46 Majority and Minority 48 Jewish Ethnicities, Jewish Majority, Palestinian Minority 49 Part II The National and Bureaucratic Logic in Early Schooling Prologue: The Educating State and the Child 55 4 Celebrations of the National - Holiday Occasions in Kindergartens 61 Hanukkah: Hierarchy, Family, Collectivity 64 Mother's Day: The Creation of Family and Intimacy 68 Jerusalem Day: Statehood in the National 71 Celebrating the National 74 5 Celebrations of Bureaucratic Logic: Birthday Parties in Israeli Kindergartens 77 A Kindergarten Birthday Celebration 78 Individuation 81 Reclassification by Age 83 Temporal Continuity 85 Age and Bureaucratic Logic 87 Part III The Fruition of the National and Bureaucratic Logic Prologue 93 Zionist Cosmologic: The Dating of Days, The Shaping of Space 94 6 Opening Holocaust Remembrance Day - the Bureaucratic Logic and Aesthetics of National Mourning 101 The Aesthetic Feel of Practice 101 Bureaucratic Aesthetics in the Event of Presentation 103 The Military Envelopment of the Memorial Gathering 104 The Memorial Gathering 107 A Memorial Gathering of the 1990s: Sequencing 113 Performing Practices of Bureaucratic Logic 116 7 Sequencing the National - Opening Remembrance Day and Independence Day 119 Opening Remembrance Day, Enclosing the National 119 Opening Independence Day, Opening the National (somewhat) 126 National Cosmology and the Encoding of Rhythmic Time 134 Part IV The Holes of Absence Prologue: Sacrificial Absence, Memorial Presence 145 8 The Presence of Absence - the Memorialism of National Absence 147 The Military Cemetery 150 The Memorial Place 153 The Holocaust Memorial 158 The Presence of Absence: Counter Cases 165 Memory, Metonymy, and Metaphor in National Memorialism 167 9 Absence Rising - Telling Little Holocaust Stories, Shaping the National 171 Absenting Presence 176 Telling Stories 182 Doing the Presence of Absence 184 Stories and Audiences 190 From Rising Absence to Redemptive Presence (and its Consequences) 194 Epilogue: The Cyborg State 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 241 Index 265
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Jewish nationalism, Jews Israel Identity, National characteristics, Israeli psychological aspects, Group identity Political aspects Israel, Communication Political aspects Israel, Memory Social aspects, Signs and symbols Israel History 20th century