Culture and customs of Israel / / Rebecca L. Torstrick

• Autore: Torstrick Rebecca L. <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.095694
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Israel
• Soggetto geografico: Israel Social life and customs
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture and customs of Israel
• ISBN: 9798400635465; 9786612409479; 9781282409477; 1282409476; 9780313062810; 0313062811; 9780313050367; 0313050368
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974134603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture and customs of the Middle East.