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200 10$aCulture and customs of Israel$b[electronic resource] /$fRebecca L. Torstrick
210   $aWestport, Conn. $cGreenwood Press$d2004
215   $a1 online resource (208 p.)
225 1 $aCulture and customs of the Middle East
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-313-32091-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and (p. [179]-182) index.
327   $aIntroduction : 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.
330   $aStudents 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
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607   $aIsrael$xSocial life and customs
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