TY - BOOK
T1 - Becoming Israeli
T2 - national ideals & everyday life in the 1950s
AU - Helman, Anat
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - "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 a 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".--Book Jacket.
AB - "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 a 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".--Book Jacket.
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T3 - Schusterman series in Israel studies
BT - Becoming Israeli
PB - Brandies University Press
CY - Waltham
ER -