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When the state winks : the performance of Jewish conversion in Israel / Michal Kravel-Tovi.
LIBRA BM645.C6 K73 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kravel-Tovi, Michal, author.
- Series:
- Religion, culture, and public life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conversion--Judaism.
- Conversion.
- Jewish converts.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Zionism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The first ethnography of state-run Jewish conversion in contemporary Israel, this book offers a fresh perspective on religious conversion as a tool of nationally driven population policy.
- Contents:
- Prologue : the naked truth on Tel Aviv's beaches
- Introduction : taking winking seriously
- The conversion mission
- National mission
- State workers
- The conversion performance
- Legible signs
- Dramaturgical entanglements
- Biographical scripts
- Comp : please do not treat epilogue as part of part 2
- Epilogue : winking like a state.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231183246
- 0231183240
- OCLC:
- 978351855
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