Becoming Hebrew
Subtitle: the creation of a Jewish national culture in Palestine before the First World War
By: Arieh Bruce Saposnik.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780195331219
Subjects: Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, -- 1858-1922 -- Influence; Jews -- Palestine -- Identity; Zionism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century; Jewish nationalism; Jews -- Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: to become a nation of "Jewish culture"; title: "Babels" and assemblies: Zionism in the demographic and cultural patchwork of Palestine; title: The Uganda affair: soil(s) for national culture; title: A mother tongue in the father land: transforming a "Jewish community" into a "Hebrew yishuv"; title: New immigrants, rival vanguards; title: Beauty out of Zion: Zions above and Zions below; title: "Halbasien" in Asia: East meets West in Zionist culture; title: Bounding the nation: ethnic selves and national others in yishuv culture; title: The Jew has died, the Hebrew has been born: making and locating cultural traditions; title: Language wars and other wars; title: Conclusion.