Title: Tangled roots : the emergence of Israeli culture /
Authors: Barṭal, Yiśraʼel,
Year: 2020
Subjects: Jews Civilization; Civilization; Jews Civilization; Israel Civilization; Palestine Civilization.; Israel; Middle East Palestine
Abstract: "In this new book Israel Bartal traces the history of modern Hebrew culture prior to the emergence of political Zionism. Bartal examines how traditional and modernist ideals and Western and non-European cultures merged in an unprecedented encounter between an ancient land (Israel) and a multigenerational people (the Jews). As this new Hebrew culture was taking shape, the memory of the recent European past played a highly influential role in shaping the image of the New Hebrew, that mythological hero who was meant to supplant the East European exilic Jew"--
Contents: Introduction: A Culture in the making -- Pre-Zionist Multiculturalism : Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Other Jews in Ottoman Jerusalem -- The New Zionist Road Map : From Old Gravesites to New Settlements -- Imperial Identities : Nationalism, Politics, and Culture -- Upstairs, Downstairs : Yiddish and Ivrit in Tel Aviv -- Revolution and Nostalgia : The Changing Images of the Shtetl -- Lubavitch, Berlin, and Kinneret : From the "Science of Judaism" to the "Science of Zionism" -- From St. Petersburg to Zion : The Discovery of Jewish National Music.