Israel Celebrates

Jewish Holidays and Civic Culture in Israel

AvHizky Shoham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del 28 i serien Jewish Identities in a Changing World

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-13
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:586 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jewish Identities in a Changing World
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004343863

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Hizky Shoham is a senior lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. A cultural historian of Zionism, he published Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (Academic Studies Press, 2014).

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Israeli Civic Culture as a Jewish CultureCivic Culture Israeli Culture, Jewish Culture(s) The Anthropological History of Israeli Holidays Structure of the Book Chapter One – Jewish Family: PassoverPassover in Jewish Cultures of the Past The Seder in the Yishuv and in Israel The 1960s on: The Rise of the Extended Family“What do I have in common with these people?”Why the Haggadah?The Seder in the Jewish Culture of the DiasporaConclusion: The Jewish Extended Family in Israeli Public CultureChapter Two – Environment: Tu BishvatTu Bishvat in Jewish Cultures of the PastArbor Day and Tu BishvatTrees and Planting in the New Hebrew CultureThe Mandate Era: National Planting Ceremonies Planting Ceremonies in Independent Israel: Ecology and PoliticsTu Bishvat in Israeli Culture: The Environmental-Political TrackTu Bishvat in Israeli Culture: The Environmental-Apolitical TrackTu Bishvat in Adult Culture: Active NostalgiaTu Bishvat in American Jewish CultureTu Bishvat and Arbor Day: Reciprocal RelationsConclusion: Nostalgia as a Cultural ForceChapter Three – Public Space: Yom KippurYom Kippur as an AnomalyHistorical Yom KippurThe Israeli version of Yom Kippur: The Suspension of TransportationThe Suspension of Economic Activity“Online Fasting”: What do People Do?Heshbon Nefesh: Ecology and PoliticsThe Jewishness of Public SpaceConclusion: The Jewish Public SpaceChapter Four – Freedom: Yom Ha’atzma’ut Yom Ha’atzma’ut: The Initial Second Thoughts Spontaneity and Artificiality Doing Something on Yom Ha’atzma’ut Wandering the City Streets From Picnic to Cookout Memorial Day and the Torch-Lighting Ceremony Yom Ha’atzma’ut in the DiasporaIsraeli Arabs and Yom Ha’atzma’ut Conclusion: An Empty Day? Chapter Five – Citizenship: The “Nationalization” of Jewish Culture in IsraelThe Assimilative Power of the Jewish Culture in IsraelThe Nationalizing of the Israeli Jewish CultureNationalizing the Jewish Culture: Its Ramifications for Jewish Identity in IsraelNationalizing the Jewish Culture: Its Ramifications for Arab Identity in IsraelEpilogue: Political Fantasy and Cultural RealityReferences