Carnival in Tel Aviv : : purim and the celebration of urban zionism / / Hizky Shoham.
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 th...
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Superior document: | Israel: Society, Culture, and History |
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Place / Publishing House: | Brighton, Massachusetts : : Academic Studies Press,, 2014. ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Israel (Boston, Mass.)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.