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Israel Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization of Jewish rituals, myths, and symbols in Israeli culture throughout “the long twentieth century” of Zionism and on to the present, and to demonstrate how a new strand of Judaism developed in Israel from the grassroots. But could this grassroots Israeli culture develop into a shared symbolic space for both Jews and Arabs? By probing the political implications of the minutiae of life, the book argues that this popular culture might come to define Jewish identity in Israel of the 21st century.

Title Israel celebrates : Jewish Holidays and civic culture in Israel / by Hizky Shoham
translated by Lenn J. Schramm Diana File.
Publisher Leiden, Netherlands
Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Nijhoff
Creation Date 2017
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English, translated from Hebrew
Content Israeli Civic Culture as a Jewish Culture -- The Jewish Family: Passover -- The Environment: Tu Bishvat -- The Public Space: Yom Kippur -- Freedom: Yom Ha’atzma’ut -- Citizenship: The “Nationalization” of Jewish Culture in Israel.
Series Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 1570-7997
Volume 28
Extent 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2017
National Library system number 997010702437205171
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