Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

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Index Note: Page numbers in italics refer to the illustrations. Academy of the Hebrew Language, 20, 30 advertising, 38, 57, 77, 86–88, 92, 100, 113, 118, 128, 147–48 Advocates of Quality Films, 133, 137 agriculture, ix, 3, 11, 15, 72, 76, 92 Aloni, Nissim, 125 America: Americanization, 18, 38–40, 125, 135, 137, 164; American movies, 134–37; packages and scrips from, 60–61 antisemitism, 13, 165, 170 Arabic (language), 22, 30, 32–38, 44, 131–32, 166, 171, 173 Arabs, 3–4, 11, 59, 85, 191; marginalization of, xv, 44–45, 70–71; mistreatment of, 103, 105; and moviegoing, 36–37, 131–32; in Palestine, 34, 173 Arab states, 1–3, 36 army. See IDF; military arts, 31, 43, 73, 80, 98, 125, 134–35, 137, 147, 156 Ashkenazim, 5, 8, 30, 32, 37, 41, 96, 132–33, 174–75, 177 austerity, 47–57, 62–67, 115, 122. See also rationing Avieli, Nir, 159 Bachi, Roberto, 28–29, 33, 44–45, 142, 150–51 Bar-On, Mordechai, 71 Bartal, Israel, 181 Bedouins, 3–4, 70, 79, 143 Beerotaim, 90 Beer Sheva, 6, 26, 77, 96, 112, 128 Ben-Gurion, David, 8, 13, 15, 43, 69–70, 118, 141, 160, 171–72, 180 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 30 Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak, 110 black market, 16, 58–60, 61, 63–64, 67, 80, 109, 118, 120, 122 Blanc, Haim, 32 Bnei Darom (kibbutz), 153 bourgeois, 156–57, 165, 168, 170, 175, 178, 186. See also middle class Britain: moviegoing in, 113, 135; rationing in, 51, 58 British rule in Palestine, 22, 38, 47, 56, 69, 173, 184. See also Mandate; prestate era Burla, Yehuda, 20, 22 buses, 90, 92, 110–12, 119, 138; drivers of, 95, 98, 101–4; companies and cooperatives , 91 (see also Dan; Egged); conditions in, 39, 86, 88, 89, 97, 99–101, 103, 218n61; lines for, 74, 93–96; passengers, 95, 104–9, 163, 176; stops and stations, 90, 94, 96, 93–97, 98 Campbell, Colin, xiv Canada, 50, 57 centralism, xii–xiii, 13–15, 18, 27–28, 118, 135, 182 Certeau, Michel de, xi, 88, 189 Chartier, Roger, xi children, xiv, 6, 17, 19, 26, 166–67, 169, 175, 177, 195n30; on the bus, 104, 105, 270 ■ Index 107, 112, 176; kibbutzniks, 146, 148, 150, 153–55, 157; and language, 28–29, 42–43; in movie houses, 113, 122–25; and rationing, 47, 52–53, 57–58, 66 cinema. See moviegoing; movie houses Cinema Owners Association, 114, 123, 124, 127, 133 clothing and footwear, 8, 83, 119, 167–68, 176, 179 Cohen, Aharon, 36 Cold War, 141, 160 Committee for the Well-Being of Soldiers, 74 Communist Party, 71, 75 Cuba, 57 cultural history, xiii cultural militarism. See militarism culture, xi; Arab, 37, 132; dominant, x, xv (see also hegemony); high, xi, 31, 41, 43; Israeli national, ix–x, xiii, 13–14, 83, 111, 177, 184–86; popular and mass, xi–xii, 31–32, 38–40, 43, 49, 79, 117, 166, 179, 181 Dan (bus cooperative), 104 Dan (kibbutz), 148 democracy: cultural democratization, 88; and humor, 51, 64–65; in Israel, x, 3, 70, 183–84; in the kibbutz, 147, 159; military policies in, 68, 71; in prestate era, 38, 86 Diaspora, 21, 42–43, 44, 164–65, 181 Dosh, 77 Douglas, Allen, 66 Draitser, Emil A., 49, 53, 66 dress. See clothing and footwear Druze, 44 dugri (direct) style, 166–68, 170, 175–77, 179, 185 Dzigan and Schumacher (Yiddish performers), 49 Eastern Europe, 14; Haskalah in, 21, 41, 164; image of, 91, 102; manners from, 173–74, 177, 180–81; as place of origin, 8, 30, 41–42, 49, 165, 170, 184–85 East Germany, 58, 63, 173–174 Edri, Yehoshua, 123, 124 Egged, 86, 88, 91–92, 93, 97–98, 100 Egypt, 147; army of, 161, 176; films of, 36, 131–32, 137 Eilat, 131 Ein Harod (kibbutz), 160–61 Ein Tzurim (kibbutz), 151 Eisenstadt, Shmuel Noah, 33 elections, 13, 48, 103 elites, 26, 171, 175; cultural and intellectual , 31–32, 40–41, 133–37 England, 57, 165, 168, 181 English: as official language, 22; popularity of American terms, 39–40; popularity of British terms, 39 entertainment, 49, 74, 112, 115–16, 128–29, 131, 133, 135–37 ethnicity, ix, 8, 14, 173–75, 236n107 Europe, 7, 19, 21, 30, 38, 53, 62, 125, 134–35, 164 Even Zohar, Itamar, 31 exhibitions, 11, 75 films, 36–37, 125–26, 127, 131, 133–37. See also movies Fiske, John, xvi, 190 food and...