Constructing ethnic identities : : immigration, festivals and syncretism / / Rachel Sharaby ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm.

• Superior document: Jewish Identities in a Changing World
• VerfasserIn: Sharabi, Rachel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Schramm, Lenn,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Identities in a Changing World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004511996; 9789004511941
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rachel Sharaby ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm.

"This book deals with how, starting in the 1960s, immigrant groups in Israel constructed their ethnic identity by reviving their ethnic festivals and turning them into part of Israeli society. For the immigrants, these festivals serve as a collective "definitional ceremony," with an intersection of ethnicity, culture, and identity. They also help them to develop cultural and religious syncretism. The discussion of their social and political leaders' ethnic activism provides important insights about the ways in which immigrant leaders employ their ethnic tradition as a resource for mobilizing cultural, social, and political capital that will facilitate their penetration of the cultural mainstream"--