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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451927103321

Autore

Torstrick Rebecca L. <1954->

Titolo

Culture and customs of Israel [[electronic resource] /] / Rebecca L. Torstrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40947-6

9786612409479

0-313-06281-1

0-313-05036-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Culture and customs of the Middle East

Disciplina

306/.095694

Soggetti

Ethnology - Israel

Electronic books.

Israel Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and (p. [179]-182) index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : land, people, education, economy, and history -- Religion and world view -- Literature, media, and cinema -- Art and architecture/housing -- Cuisine and traditional dress -- Gender, marriage, and family -- Social customs and lifestyle -- Music and dance.

Sommario/riassunto

Students and other readers looking to more fully understand and appreciate Israelis of all backgrounds and their ways of life and culture now have a solid source of engaging, balanced, and accurate information. Israel's brief, turbulent history and the Arab-Israeli conflict are always taken into account in the narrative; however, the emphasis here is nonpolitical and encompassing of the heterogenous culture of its citizens, including Jews, Arabs, Druze, and others. The predominant Jewish culture itself is multicultural, with immigrants from all over the world.||Israel, a tiny state about the s