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

Schramm, Lenn J. [ÜbersetzerIn] ; File, Diana [ÜbersetzerIn]

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Hebraeisch)

Leiden ; Boston : Brill [2017], [2017]

2017

VIII, 276 Seiten

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-267; Index: Seite 268-276

978-90-04-34386-3 hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-34387-0 (Fernzugriff) e-book

Jewish family : Passover

Environment : Tu Bishvat

Public space : Yom Kippur

Freedom : Yom Ha'atzma'ut

Citizenship : the "nationalization" of Jewish culture in Israel

*Holidays -- Israel ; Fasts and feasts -- Judaism ; Judaism and culture -- Israel ; Judaism and state -- Israel ; Israel -- Social life and customs

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: GT4874.5.I75

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 394.2695694;

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