Carnival in Tel Aviv
Subtitle: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781618113511
Subjects: Purim; Carnivals; Zionism; Israel, social life and customs
Description: The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its main public sphere.