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Author Shavit, Yaacov

Title Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine : the Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1 Placing the Stagers on the Cultural Stage: Identifying the Stagers; 2 The Setting: Hebrew Culture, Hebrew "Formal Folk Culture," and the Hebrew Stagers; 3 Ceremonies and Festivals in Modern Jewish Thinking; 4 How Do the Stagers Work? The Mechanism of Innovation; Part II; 5 The Missing Stage of Political Culture; 6 To Celebrate in the Spirit of the Homeland: Staging School Festivals and Ceremonies; 7 The Urban Stagers and the Town as an Open-Air Stage
8 Festivals in the Kibbutz: Stagers and Staging in a Communal SocietyConclusion; Appendixes; 1 First Program for a Commemoration of the First Fruits Festivity, 1929; 2 Commemoration of the First Fruits: Proposal for a Ceremony, 1934; 3 Planting on the New Year for Trees (Tu Bishevat), 1930s; 4 Program for Purim Festivities in Tel Aviv, 1929; 5 A Citizen of Tel Aviv: A Proposal for the Organization of a Purim Carnival, 1931; 6 Letter from Members of the Atz-Kotzatz Editorial Board, 1932; 7 Letter from Yehudah Nadivi Outlining Proposed Preparations for the Tel Aviv Jubilee Celebrations, 1924
Notes NotesSelected Bibliography; Index
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Subject Jewish folk festivals -- Palestine -- History -- 19th century
Jewish folk festivals -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Jewish folk festivals -- Palestine -- Management -- History
Popular culture -- Palestine -- History
Religion and culture -- Palestine -- History
Jewish folk festivals
Popular culture
Religion and culture
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sitton, Shoshana
Naor, Chaya
ISBN 9780814341889
0814341888