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Becoming Hebrew : the creation of a Jewish national culture in Ottoman Palestine
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saposnik, Arieh Bruce, 1966- lat, autor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Identity--20th century--Palestine.
- Jews.
- Zionism--History--20th century--Palestine.
- Zionism.
- Jewish nationalism--Social life and customs--Palestine.
- Jewish nationalism.
- Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922--Influence.
- Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 314 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Becoming Hebrew
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Becoming Hebrew' is a study of the creation of a Zionist national culture in Jewish Palestine between 1900 and 1914. Conceived as a revolution in Jewish life, the new culture maintained a tensely intricate relationship with traditional Judaism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: to become a nation of "Jewish culture"
- Babels and assemblies: Zionism in the demographic and cultural patchwork of Palestine
- The Uganda affair: soils for national culture
- A mother tongue in the fatherland: transforming a Jewish community into a Hebrew yishuv
- New immigrants, rival vanguards
- Beauty out of Zion?: Zions above and Zions below
- "Halbasien" in Asia: East meets West in Zionist culture
- Bounding the nation: ethnic selves and national others in yishuv culture
- "The Jew has died, the Hebrew has been born": making and locating cultural traditions
- Language wars and other wars
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199868100 (ebook) :
- 0199868107 (ebook) :
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