| Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s Contributor(s): Helman, Anat (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611685575 ISBN-13: 9781611685572 Publisher: Brandeis University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Jewish Studies - History | Jewish - General - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine |
| Dewey: 956.94 |
| LCCN: 2012278206 |
| Series: Schusterman Series in Israel Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.16" W x 9.37" (1.09 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates life on the ground in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua franca of Israel, the uses of humor, and the effects of a constant military presence, along with such familiar aspects of daily life as communal dining on the kibbutz, the nightmare of trying to board a bus, and moviegoing as a form of escapism. In the process Helman shows how ordinary people adapted to the standards and rules of the political and cultural elites and negotiated the chaos of early statehood. |