LEADER 02908oam 2200709 a 450 001 9910974134603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9798400635465 010 $a9786612409479 010 $a9781282409477 010 $a1282409476 010 $a9780313062810 010 $a0313062811 010 $a9780313050367 010 $a0313050368 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400635465 035 $a(CKB)1000000000452972 035 $a(EBL)492426 035 $a(OCoLC)75625884 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000133628 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11136871 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133628 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10041858 035 $a(PQKB)10675735 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL492426 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349846 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240947 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC492426 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400635465BC 035 $a(Perlego)4170784 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000452972 100 $a20240214e20042024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulture and customs of Israel /$fRebecca L. Torstrick 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cGreenwood Press,$d2004. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing (UK),$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 225 1 $aCulture and customs of the Middle East 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780313320910 311 08$a0313320918 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 $aStudents and other readers looking to more fully understand and appreciate Israelis of all backgrounds and their ways of life and culture now have a solid source of engaging, balanced, and accurate information. Israel's brief, turbulent history and the Arab-Israeli conflict are always taken into account in the narrative; however, the emphasis here is nonpolitical and encompassing of the heterogenous culture of its citizens, including Jews, Arabs, Druze, and others. The predominant Jewish culture itself is multicultural, with immigrants from all over the world.||Israel, a tiny state about the s 410 0$aCulture and customs of the Middle East. 606 $aEthnology$zIsrael 607 $aIsrael$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a306/.095694 700 $aTorstrick$b Rebecca L.$f1954-$01798477 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974134603321 996 $aCulture and customs of Israel$94341272 997 $aUNINA