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- Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Brandeis University Press
- Series: The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- 1 | Introducing Israel in White
- pp. 1-19
- 2 | The Language of the Melting Pot
- pp. 20-46
- 3 | The Humorous Side of Rationing
- pp. 47-67
- 4 | “A People in Uniform”
- pp. 68-85
- 5 | Taking the Bus
- pp. 86-112
- 6 | Going to the Movies
- pp. 113-139
- 7 | The Communal Dining Hall
- pp. 140-162
- Conclusion
- pp. 187-192
- Bibliography
- pp. 239-268
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611685589
Related ISBN(s)
9781611685565, 9781611685572
MARC Record
OCLC
885455958
Pages
274
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014