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This essay traces the history of the Hebrew expression tachles bashetach, interpreting it as a "counter-image" to the concept of the Jew-as-Luftmensch and showing how it can be viewed as a guiding principle in Israeli culture.
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This page is a summary of: "End on Surface": Teleology and Ground in Israeli Culture, Representations, February 2007, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/rep.2007.97.1.123.
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