Carnival in Tel Aviv : purim and the celebration of urban zionism / Hizky Shoham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoham, Hizky, author.

Series:

Israel (Boston, Mass.)

Israel: Society, Culture, and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism.

Purim--Palestine.

Purim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Academic Studies Press 2014

Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front

Table of Contents

"All of you to Tel Aviv on Purim": A Local-National Festival

"Travelling to Esther": A Civil-Religious and Pilgrimage Event

"A Little Bit of Tradition"

The Civilized-Carnivalesque Body

"Mordechai is Riding a Horse": Political Performances

"Our Only Romantic Festival": Hebrew Queen Esther

Another New Jew: Urban Zionist Ideology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2014).

ISBN:

9781618113627

1618113623

OCLC:

922977951

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644693285

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access