ISBN:
9789004343863
Language:
English
Pages:
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
Parallel Title:
Online version Shoham, Hizky, 1975- author Israel celebrates Jewish holidays and civic culture in Israel
DDC:
394.2695694
Keywords:
Holidays Israel
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Fasts and feasts Judaism
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Judaism and culture Israel
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Judaism and state Israel
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Israel Social life and customs
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-267; Index: Seite 268-276
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Jewish family : Passover
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Environment : Tu Bishvat
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Public space : Yom Kippur
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Freedom : Yom Ha'atzma'ut
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Citizenship : the "nationalization" of Jewish culture in Israel
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