Becoming Hebrew : the creation of a Jewish national culture in Ottoman Palestine / Arieh Bruce Saposnik

Author:: Saposnik, Arieh Bruce, 1966-
Published:: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical Description:: xii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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.

Subject(s):

Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922—Influence
Jews—Palestine—Identity
Zionism—Palestine—History—20th century
Jewish nationalism
Jews—Palestine—Social life and customs—20th century

ISBN:

9780195331219 (cloth) and 0195331214 (cloth)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-303) and index.

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