ISBN:
9789004343870
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 276 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Jewish Identities in a Changing World / Volume 28
Series Statement:
Jewish identities in a changing world
Uniform Title:
Naʿaśeh lanu ḥag: ḥagim ṿe-tarbut ezraḥit be-Yiśrael
Parallel Title:
Print version Shoham, Hizky Israel Celebrates : Jewish Holidays and Civic Culture in Israel
Keywords:
Holidays
;
Judaism and culture
;
Judaism and state
;
Fasts and feasts ; Judaism
;
Holidays
;
Judaism and culture
;
Judaism and state
;
Manners and customs
;
Israel Social life and customs
;
Israel
;
Judentum
;
Religiöses Fest
;
Feiertag
;
Brauch
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1163/9789004343870
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