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Article: Reading from Right to Left
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- Jerusalem Post
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- April 3, 1997
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Jeff Green
Jerusalem Post
04-03-1997
'Myth" is one of the most slippery concepts in modern intellectual life. Though we are hard put to define them with precision, we sense that myths, be they what they may, are critically important in individual and group psychology. David Ohana, a bright young scholar associated with the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, and Robert S. Wistrich, a prolific older scholar who is a professor at the Hebrew University, explain the matter very well in their essay, "The Presence of Myths in Judaism, Zionism, and Israeliness." As they say, "the historian examines a society on the vertical axis of time; the sociologist analyzes it on the horizontal axis, at a given ...