In Search of Identity: Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture

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Dan Urian, Efraim Karsh
Taylor & Francis US, 1999 - 284 pages
Culture has played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity. Since the 1950s, Israeli culture has been disintegrating into simultaneous sub-cultures. The contributors discuss the nature and characteristics of this cultural tension and the nature of Jewishness.

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Contents

Efraim Karsh and Dan Urian
1
Judaism in Israeli Culture
9
Secular Judaism and Its Prospects
29
Baruch Kimmerling
49
Shall We Find Sufficient Strength? On Behalf
73
Between Rabbi Shach and Modern Hebrew
86
Spiritual Rootlessness and Circumscription to
103
Gad Ufaz
132
On Universal
159
The Zionist Narrative in
175
Mordechai Omer
200
Images of Religious Jews
219
Baalei Teshuva Returnees to the Religious Fold
230
Israeli Art and
253
Index
279
Copyright

David Zisenwine
146

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