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It has appeared in innumerable incarnations, characters, and images: from the Uganda Plan to Operation Moses; from Lovengulu King of the Zulu to Idi Amin; from Golda Meir dancing the hora in Africa to Shmuel Gorodish mining diamonds there; from the Africans who came to Israel in the 1960s for supplementary education to the migrant workers and refugees of today; from Ehud Barak\u2019s statement that Israel is a \u201cvilla in the jungle\u201d to the suspicion that Israel is nothing but a jungle itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>A Villa in the Jungle: Africa in Israeli Culture\u00a0<\/em>focuses on the golden age of Israel\u2013Africa relations (1957\u20131973) and their reflection in the theater, in literature, and in popular Israeli culture. At the same time, it examines the establishment of the \u201cdark continent\u201d as an emotional and geographic space on which to project, for example, Zionist, territorial, and racial fantasies. 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