Constructing Ethnic Identities : Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism /
Sharaby, Rachel,
Constructing Ethnic Identities : Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism / Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism Rachel Sharaby. - 1 online resource. - Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 34 . - Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 34. .
The book shows how minority groups recreate their traditions and employ them as a means to preserve ethnic boundaries, to redefine identity, and to move towards mainstream culture. The result is a variation of ritual syncretism, demonstrating the immigrants’ multiple social locations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Copyright page / Preface / Acknowledgments / General Introduction / Chapter 1 Center/Periphery and Patterns of Protest / Chapter 2 The Mimouna in North Africa: A Symmetry of Symbols / Chapter 3 The Mimouna in Israel—from a Sectoral Festivity to a National Holiday / Chapter 4 A Role Reversal: The Newcomers as Host and the Veterans as Guest / Conclusion A Movement to the Center and Syncretism / Chapter 5 A Tradition and Its Revival / Chapter 6 The Seharane Festival in Kurdistan: Closing a Ritual Circle / Chapter 7 Immigration and Settlement in Israel: The Loss of the Ethnic Identity / Chapter 8 The Attempts to Organize a National Seharane Festival in the 1970s / Chapter 9 The First Public Seharane Festival and Its Resemblance to the Tradition / Chapter 10 The 1980s: The Seharane as the Arena of Political Clashes / Chapter 11 The 1990s: A Return to Folk Traditions / Chapter 12 The New Millennium: An Internal and Ritual Split / Chapter 13 The Last Decade: Decline and Retrenchment / Chapter 14 Discussion: An Ethnic Festival that Transcends Social Boundaries / Conclusion Syncretism in the Revival of the Seharane / Chapter 15 Pilgrimage / Chapter 16 Community and Family Life in Ethiopia / Chapter 17 The Seged / Chapter 18 The Seged Ritual in Ethiopia / Chapter 19 Discussion / Chapter 20 Identities in the Postmodern Age / Chapter 21 The Immigration of Ethiopian Jews and Their Absorption in Israel / Chapter 22 The 1980s: The Initial Model of the Seged in Israel / Chapter 23 The 1990s: A Constructed and Political Ritual / Chapter 24 The New Century: Cooperation among Organizations and the Campaign for Official Recognition of the Seged / Chapter 25 2010–2020: The Seged as a National Holiday / Conclusion The Seged in a Multigenerational Perspective / General Conclusions / Bibliography / Index / Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby.
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.
9789004511996 9789004511941
10.1163/9789004511996 DOI
2022010225
Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Israel.
Fasts and feasts--Judaism.
Ethnic festivals--History.--Israel
GT4886.I7
303.48/2095694
Constructing Ethnic Identities : Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism / Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism Rachel Sharaby. - 1 online resource. - Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 34 . - Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 34. .
The book shows how minority groups recreate their traditions and employ them as a means to preserve ethnic boundaries, to redefine identity, and to move towards mainstream culture. The result is a variation of ritual syncretism, demonstrating the immigrants’ multiple social locations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Copyright page / Preface / Acknowledgments / General Introduction / Chapter 1 Center/Periphery and Patterns of Protest / Chapter 2 The Mimouna in North Africa: A Symmetry of Symbols / Chapter 3 The Mimouna in Israel—from a Sectoral Festivity to a National Holiday / Chapter 4 A Role Reversal: The Newcomers as Host and the Veterans as Guest / Conclusion A Movement to the Center and Syncretism / Chapter 5 A Tradition and Its Revival / Chapter 6 The Seharane Festival in Kurdistan: Closing a Ritual Circle / Chapter 7 Immigration and Settlement in Israel: The Loss of the Ethnic Identity / Chapter 8 The Attempts to Organize a National Seharane Festival in the 1970s / Chapter 9 The First Public Seharane Festival and Its Resemblance to the Tradition / Chapter 10 The 1980s: The Seharane as the Arena of Political Clashes / Chapter 11 The 1990s: A Return to Folk Traditions / Chapter 12 The New Millennium: An Internal and Ritual Split / Chapter 13 The Last Decade: Decline and Retrenchment / Chapter 14 Discussion: An Ethnic Festival that Transcends Social Boundaries / Conclusion Syncretism in the Revival of the Seharane / Chapter 15 Pilgrimage / Chapter 16 Community and Family Life in Ethiopia / Chapter 17 The Seged / Chapter 18 The Seged Ritual in Ethiopia / Chapter 19 Discussion / Chapter 20 Identities in the Postmodern Age / Chapter 21 The Immigration of Ethiopian Jews and Their Absorption in Israel / Chapter 22 The 1980s: The Initial Model of the Seged in Israel / Chapter 23 The 1990s: A Constructed and Political Ritual / Chapter 24 The New Century: Cooperation among Organizations and the Campaign for Official Recognition of the Seged / Chapter 25 2010–2020: The Seged as a National Holiday / Conclusion The Seged in a Multigenerational Perspective / General Conclusions / Bibliography / Index / Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby -- Rachel Sharaby.
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.
9789004511996 9789004511941
10.1163/9789004511996 DOI
2022010225
Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Israel.
Fasts and feasts--Judaism.
Ethnic festivals--History.--Israel
GT4886.I7
303.48/2095694