Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Shoham, Hizky, 1975- author.

Title Israel celebrates : Jewish holidays and civic culture in Israel / by Hizky Shoham ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm, Diana File.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages).
text file
Series Jewish identities in a changing world ; volume 28
Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 28.
Note Translated from the Hebrew.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Jewish family : Passover -- Environment : Tu Bishvat -- Public space : Yom Kippur -- Freedom : Yom Ha'atzma'ut -- Citizenship : the "nationalization" of Jewish culture in Israel.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Holidays -- Israel.
Holidays.
Israel.
Fasts and feasts -- Judaism.
Fasts and feasts -- Judaism.
Israel -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Judaism and culture -- Israel.
Judaism and culture.
Judaism and state -- Israel.
Judaism and state.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Schramm, Lenn J., translator.
File, Diana, translator.
Other Form: Print version: Shoham, Hizky, 1975- Israel celebrates Jewish holidays and civic culture in Israel. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004343863 (DLC) 2017006674
ISBN 9789004343870 (electronic book)
9004343873 (electronic book)
9789004343863