| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: to become a nation of "Jewish culture" -- Babels and assemblies: Zionism in the demographic and cultural patchwork of Palestine -- The Uganda affair: soils for national culture -- A mother tongue in the fatherland: transforming a Jewish community into a Hebrew yishuv -- New immigrants, rival vanguards -- Beauty out of Zion?: Zions above and Zions below -- "Halbasien" in Asia: East meets West in Zionist culture -- Bounding the nation: ethnic selves and national others in yishuv culture -- "The Jew has died, the Hebrew has been born": making and locating cultural traditions -- Language wars and other wars -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
'Becoming Hebrew' is a study of the creation of a Zionist national culture in Jewish Palestine between 1900 and 1914. Conceived as a revolution in Jewish life, the new culture maintained a tensely intricate relationship with traditional Judaism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-303) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922. fast (OCoLC)fst00019707 |
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Jews -- Palestine -- Identity
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Zionism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
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Jewish nationalism.
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Jews -- Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Jewish nationalism.
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Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Social life and customs.
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Zionism.
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Middle East -- Palestine.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
9780199868100 |
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0199868107 |
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