Title: Becoming Hebrew : the creation of a Jewish national culture in Ottoman Palestine /
Authors: Saposnik, Arieh Bruce, 1966-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, Influence.; Jews Palestine Identity.; Zionism Palestine History; Jewish nationalism; Jews Palestine Social life and customs; Jews Palestine.
Abstract: '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.