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Record Nr.

UNISA996347746903316

Autore

Shoham Hizky

Titolo

Carnival in Tel Aviv : Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism / / Hizky Shoham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]

©2014

ISBN

1-64469-328-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Israel: Society, Culture, and History

Disciplina

394.267

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. “All of you to Tel Aviv on Purim”: A Local-National Festival -- Chapter 2. “Travelling to Esther”: A Civil-Religious and Pilgrimage Event -- Chapter 3. “A Little Bit of Tradition” -- Chapter 4. The Civilized-Carnivalesque Body -- Chapter 5. “Mordechai is Riding a Horse”: Political Performance -- Chapter 6. “Our Only Romantic Festival”: Hebrew Queen Esther -- Chapter 7. Another New Jew: Urban Zionist Ideology -- References -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its main public sphere.