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

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) Series Jewish identities in a changing world ; volume 28 Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 28. Contents Jewish family : Passover -- Environment : Tu Bishvat -- Public space : Yom Kippur -- Freedom : Yom Ha'atzma'ut -- Citizenship : the "nationalization" of Jewish culture in Israel Summary 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 Notes Translated from the Hebrew Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2017) Subject Holidays -- Israel. Fasts and feasts -- Judaism. Judaism and culture -- Israel Judaism and state -- Israel. RELIGION -- Holidays -- Jewish. RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. Fasts and feasts -- Judaism Holidays Judaism and culture Judaism and state Manners and customs SUBJECT Israel -- Social life and customs Subject Israel Form Electronic book Author Schramm, Lenn J., translator File, Diana, translator LC no. 2017012095 ISBN 9789004343870 9004343873

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