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

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Shoham, Hizky, 1975- [author.]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 28.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004343870
9004343873

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Israel celebrates Jewish holidays and civic culture in Israel.DDC classification:

394.2695694 23

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GT4874.5.I75 S4813 2017eb

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Contents:

Jewish family : Passover -- Environment : Tu Bishvat -- Public space : Yom Kippur -- Freedom : Yom Ha'atzma'ut -- Citizenship : the "nationalization" of Jewish culture in Israel.

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.

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Translated from the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Jewish family : Passover -- Environment : Tu Bishvat -- Public space : Yom Kippur -- Freedom : Yom Ha'atzma'ut -- Citizenship : the "nationalization" of Jewish culture in Israel.

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