TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharʿabi, Raḥel
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Constructing ethnic identities: immigration, festivals and syncretism
T3  - Jewish identities in a changing world volume 34
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Israel
KW  - Fasts and feasts
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Ethnic festivals
KW  - History
AB  - This book deals with how, starting in the 1960s, immigrant groups in Israel constructed their ethnic identity by reviving their ethnic festivals and turning them into part of Israeli society. For the immigrants, these festivals serve as a collective “definitional ceremony,” with an intersection of ethnicity, culture, and identity. They also help them to develop cultural and religious syncretism. The discussion of their social and political leaders’ ethnic activism provides important insights about the ways in which immigrant leaders employ their ethnic tradition as a resource for mobilizing cultural, social, and political capital that will facilitate their penetration of the cultural mainstream
SN  - 9789004511996
UR  - https://brill.com/abstract/title/61757
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511996
DO  - 10.1163/9789004511996
LA  - English
N1  - by Rachel Sharaby ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm
ID  - 1813385645
ER  -