Abstract:

This article deals with an unexamined aspect of the Israeli culture of bereavement and its ethos of sacrifice: the expanding legitimation among bereaved parents to actively strive to have a substitute child in place of one killed in the course of military service. It begins by reviewing recent civil initiatives aimed at utilizing new fertility technologies to realize this wish. Despite these developments, the claim this article seeks to promote and discuss is that the underlying aspiration for a replacement child has existed within the Israeli national order from the state's early days, and has several common cultural symbolic and sublimative expressions, such as commemorating a dead soldier by naming newborn relatives for him. New fertility technologies have opened up a path to materialize symbolic modes of commemoration. The article closely examines the concept of the replacement child and the national logic guiding it in two novellas written at the millennium's outset by two influential Israeli authors: "Diana's Child" (Ha-yeled shel Diana) by Savyon Liebrecht and "My Younger Brother Yehudah" (Aḥi ha-ẓa'ir Yehudah) by Sami Berdugo.

摘要：

这篇文章涉及以色列丧亲文化及其牺牲精神的一个未经审查的方面：丧亲的父母越来越合法，积极努力让替代孩子代替在服兵役过程中丧生的孩子。它首先回顾了最近旨在利用新的生育技术来实现这一愿望的民间倡议。尽管有这些发展，但本文试图宣传和讨论的主张是，从以色列国家秩序的早期开始，对替代儿童的潜在渴望就存在，并且具有几种常见的文化象征和升华表达，例如纪念死者士兵通过为他命名新生儿亲属。新的生育技术开辟了一条实现象征性纪念模式的道路。(Ha-yeled shel Diana)由 Savyon Liebrecht 和“My Younger Brother Yehudah” (Aḥi ha-ẓa'ir Yehudah)由 Sami Berdugo。