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Carnival in Tel Aviv : Purim and the celebration of urban Zionism /

The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shoham, Hizky, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2014.
Colección:Israel (Boston, Mass.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "All of you to Tel Aviv on Purima": a local-national festival
  • "Travelling to Esther": a civil-religious and pilgrimage event
  • "A little bit of tradition"
  • The civilized-carnivalesque body
  • "Mordechai is riding a horse": political performance
  • "Our only romantic festival": Hebrew queen Esther
  • Another new Jew: urban Zionist ideology