Acoustic space: The role of radio in Israeli collective history

Jewish History

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-90

  Liebes, Tamar ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 33746110683     PISSN: 0334701X     EISSN: 15728579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10835-005-5981-z     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Elihu Katz, "Television Comes to the People of the Book," in I.L. Horowitz, ed., The Use and Abuse of Social Science (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1971).
2. Edwin Samuel, A Lifetime in Jerusalem: The Memoirs of the Second Viscount Samuel (Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1970), Chap. 11.
3. The compromise name agreed on following the British suggestion of "The Broad-casting Service of Palestine," and the Jewish leadership's "The Broadcasting Service of the Land of Israel."
4. This applies also to the cases of the two German states established following the Second World War and to new nations in Europe and other parts of the world.
5. Elihu Katz and George Weddell, G., Broadcasting in the Third World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977).
6. More on this era of Israeli radio in Tamar Liebes, "Performing a, dream and its dissolution: A social history of broadcasting in Israel," in J. Curran and M. Myung-Jin Park, eds., De-Westernizing Media Research (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
7. More generally, an argument that hegemony is "softer" during the post-revolutionary stage in a nation's history was made by British cultural historian Raymond Williams.
8. Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form (New York: Shocken Books, 1974).
9. See Katz, 1971, endnote I, and Tasha Oren, "Living Room Levantine: Immigration, ethnicity, and the border in early Israeli television," The Velvet Light Trap 44 (1990), 20.
10. On the correctness of these anxieties, see Katz, Elihu, Gurevitch, Michael and Hadassa Haas, "20 years of television in Israel: are there long-run effects on values, social connectedness, and cultural practices?" Journal of Communication 47 (1997), 3-20. Their study shows that whereas, during the first two decades of the monopoly of pubic broadcasting, television acted to reinforce collective dominant values, with the outburst of a multiplicity of commercial channels television reinforced de-collectivization and individualized consumer culture.
11. According to McLuhan's definition of acting on only one of the senses in high definition. See Marshal McLuhan, Understanding Media (Routledge and Kegan Kegan Paul, 1964).
12. Menahem Blondheim and Shoshana Blum Kulka, "Literacy, Orality, and Television: Mediation and Authenticity in Jewish Conversational Arguing. 1-2000 c.e.," The Communication Review 4 (2000), 511-542.
13. Charles Wright, "Functional Analysis and Mass Communication," Public Opinion Quarterly 24: (1960), 605-621.
14. Paul Levinson, Digital McLuhan (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), 190.
15. David Cardiff and Paddy Scannell, "Broadcasting and national unity," in J. Curran, A. Smith and P. Wingate, eds., Impacts and Influences (London and New York: Methuen, 1987).
16. Radio (Kol Yirael's Second Channel) has lately resumed its role of mediating between people looking for lost relatives and friends.
17. Roger Silverstone, Television and Everyday Life (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), 1-23.
18. Eytan Haber, HaYom Tifrotz Milchama [War Will Break Out Today, Hebrew], (Tel Aviv: Idanim, Yediot Aharonot Books, 1987), 190-198.
19. Nathan Cohen, "The Influence of the British Model of Broadcasting on the Formation and the Institutionalization of Broadcasting in Israel" (Diss., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004).
20. Tamar Brosh, Ne"um Le-Khol Et [A Speech for Every Occasion [Hebrew], (Tel Aviv: The Open University Press; Raffi Mann, It's Inconceivable. Tel Aviv: Hed Arzi 1993) (1998).
21. Seymor Chatman, "what books can do that films can't and vice versa," in W.J.T. Mitchel, ed., On Narrative (Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 1981), 117-136;
22. Wayne Booth, "The Company We Keep: Self-Making in Imaginative Art, Old and New," Daedalus 111, 33-59.
23. Hadley Cantril, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic (N.J. Princeton University Press, 1940).
24. Daniel Dayan and Ellihu Katz, Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992).
25. Amos Oz, Sippur Ahavah Ve-Hoshekh (Jerusalem: Keter, 2002). In his autobiographical book A Tale of Love and Darkness, novelist Amos Oz recounts the event through his child's eyes and from the perspective of an all knowing writer, half a century later it is a narrative moving between a sense of doom and tremendous joy.
26. Victor Turner, "Liminality, Kabbalah and the Media," Religion 15 (1985), 201-203.
27. Dayan and Katz, pp. 2-5.
28. John L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962).
29. Hanna Yablonka, Medinat Yisrael neged Adolf Eichmann (Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2001).
30. Radio magazine has a detailed analysis of these surveys (for the first day, see no 28, 11.5.1961). This somewhat lower number should take account of the immigrants' difficulties in understanding Hebrew. Letters from Mizrachi immigrants to Kol Yisrael also complain about the long segments in German.
31. Considering there was only one mainstream radio channel (an additional channel was in the making) and no television, having the trial fill a major part of the day had many consequences.
32. Halm Guri, Mul Tah Ha-Zekhuhit [Opposite the glass cage] (Hakibutz HaMeuchad, Lamerchav, 1962).
33. Ora Herman, "Broadcasting from Another Planet: The electronic Media and the Eichmann Trial," (MA thesis, The Institute of Contemporary Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University, 2003).
34. Moshe Dayan, "Eulogy for Ro"i Rotberg," in Brosh, ed., A Speech for Every Occasion. (Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot & Siphrey Hemed, 1993)
35. Michael Schudson, The Power of News, Chapter 4: The Trout and the Hamburger, (London and New York: Routledge).