ISBN:
9789004511996
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 362 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Jewish identities in a changing world volume 34
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sharabi, Rachel Constructing ethnic identities
Keywords:
Immigrants Cultural assimilation
;
Fasts and feasts Judaism
;
Ethnic festivals History
;
Israel
;
Einwanderung
;
Ethnische Gruppe
;
Religiöses Fest
Abstract:
This book deals with how, starting in the 1960s, immigrant groups in Israel constructed their ethnic identity by reviving their ethnic festivals and turning them into part of Israeli society. For the immigrants, these festivals serve as a collective “definitional ceremony,” with an intersection of ethnicity, culture, and identity. They also help them to develop cultural and religious syncretism. The discussion of their social and political leaders’ ethnic activism provides important insights about the ways in which immigrant leaders employ their ethnic tradition as a resource for mobilizing cultural, social, and political capital that will facilitate their penetration of the cultural mainstream
DOI:
10.1163/9789004511996
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