Description: Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Party and its youth movement, which posed a radical challenge to Zionism. Amir Locker-Biletzki examines the development of this movement from 1919 to 1965, concentrating on how Communists built a distinctive identity through myth and ritual. He addresses three key themes: identity construction through Jewish holidays (Hanukkah and Passover), through civic holidays (Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israeli Independence Day), and through Soviet and working-class myths and ceremonies (May Day and the October Revolution). He also shows how Jewish Communists viewed, interacted, and celebrated with their Palestinian comrades. Using extensive archival and newspaper sources, Locker-Biletzki argues that Jewish-Israeli Communists created a unique, dissident subculture. Simultaneously negating and absorbing the culture of Socialist-Zionism and Israeli Republicanism-as well as Soviet and left-wing-European traditions-Jewish Communists forged an Israeli identity beyond the bounds of Zionism.
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EAN: 9781438480862
UPC: 9781438480862
ISBN: 9781438480862
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Book Title: Holidays of the Revolution: Communist Identity in
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 226 Pages
Publication Name: Holidays of the Revolution: Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965
Language: English
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Politics, History
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 227 g
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: Amir Locker-Biletzki
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
