Research Catalog

Title

Staging and stagers in modern Jewish Palestine : the creation of festive lore in a new culture, 1882-1948 / Yaacov Shavit & Shoshana Sitton ; translated by Chaya Naor.

Author

Shaviṭ, Yaʻaḳov, 1944-

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Sitton, Shoshana.
• Naor, Chaya.

Description

xv, 205 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities - an inseparable part of every culture." "Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine claims that the system of ceremonies and festivals, in general, and each separate ceremony and festival were staged according to the instructions written by a defined group of cultural activists. The book examines three main stages - the educational network, rural society (particularly the cooperative sector), and urban society (most notably Tel Aviv) - and looks at the stagers themselves, who were schoolteachers, writers, artists, and cultural activists."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Uniform Title

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.

Subjects

• Popular culture > Palestine > History
• Jewish folk festivals > Palestine > Management > History
• Religion and culture > Palestine > History
• Jewish folk festivals > Palestine > History > 20th century
• Jewish folk festivals > Palestine > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Contents

1. Placing the stagers on the cultural stage : identifying the stagers -- 2. The setting : Hebrew culture, Hebrew "formal folk culture," and the Hebrew stagers -- 3. Ceremonies and festivals in modern Jewish thinking -- 4. How do the stagers work? : the mechanism of innovation -- 5. The missing stage of political culture -- 6. To celebrate in the spirit of the homeland : staging school festivals and ceremonies -- 7. The urban stagers and the town as an open-air stage -- 8. Festivals in the kibbutz : stagers and staging in a communal society -- App. 1. First program for a commemoration of the First Fruits Festivity, 1929 -- App. 2. Commemoration of the First Fruits : proposal for a ceremony, 1934 -- App. 3. Planting on the New Year for Trees (Tu Bishevat), 1930s -- App. 4. Program for Purim festivities in Tel Aviv, 1929 -- App. 5. A citizen of Tel Aviv : a proposal for the organization of a Purim carnival, 1931 -- App. 6. Letter from members of the Atz-Kotzatz Editorial Board, 1932 -- App. 7. Letter from Yehudah Nadivi outlining proposed preparations for the Tel Aviv Jubilee celebrations, 1924.

ISBN

0814328458 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004000536

OCLC

• ocm54065558
• SCSB-5083838

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries