Holidays of the Revolution: Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965

Author:   Amir Locker-Biletzki
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438480855


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Amir Locker-Biletzki
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438480855


ISBN 10:   1438480857
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Basic Concepts and Political Ritual 2. The Creation of a Jewish Progressive Tradition 3. Holocaust, Independence, and Remembrance in Israeli Communist Commemoration 4. Workers' Utopia and Reality in Israeli Communism 5. Revolution and the Soviet Union among Israeli Communists 6. Jewish-Arab Fraternity: Language, Perception, Symbol, and Ritual Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Locker-Biletzki provides us with a serious and well-crafted history of Jewish, and Arab and Jewish Communists in Israel who had another national vision, who were trying to forge a different project for Jewish national identity in Israel in the years before the state's founding. - +972 Magazine This book draws on interesting research, interviews, and publications to tell a hitherto unpublished story of Israeli history. - Colin Shindler, author of A History of Israel, Second Edition


This book draws on interesting research, interviews, and publications to tell a hitherto unpublished story of Israeli history. -- Colin Shindler, author of A History of Israel, Second Edition


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Amir Locker-Biletzki is an Affiliated Researcher at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at Concordia University in Montreal and a Balsillie School Fellow at the University of Waterloo.

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