Sentence:  Rather, identity reformation and mass 'political <WSD>neonymy</WSD><nowiki/>' focused on an anti-European Hebraicization that induced writers such as Rachel, SY Agnon and many others to reject their Ashkenazic birth names and adopt Hebrew ones. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The process of giving a new name to an established concept; renaming.