The Colors of Israel

The Colors of Israel
Title The Colors of Israel PDF eBook
Author Rachel Raz
Publisher Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Pages 27
Release 2015-08-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1512495387

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Blue and white are not the only colors of Israel! This book by author/photographer Rachel Raz (ABC Israel) showcases the many vibrant and beautiful colors of the land of Israel, from the red double-decker train in Akko to the white dome of the Shrine of the Book, from pink postage stamps to orange beach umbrellas in Tel Aviv. The Colors of Israel includes the English, Hebrew, and transliterated words for all the colors along with beautiful color photographs.

Colors of Israel

Colors of Israel
Title Colors of Israel PDF eBook
Author Laurie Grossman
Publisher Millbrook Press
Pages 28
Release 2009-08-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0761357998

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What color is Israel? It is black like the mud from the Dead Sea, tan like the wild goats that roam the desert, and gold like the dome of the ancient mosque of Jerusalem. As the meaning behind each color is used to describe the culture and customs of Israel, discover a country of ancient history and rich tradition.

A Coat of Many Colors

A Coat of Many Colors
Title A Coat of Many Colors PDF eBook
Author Anat Helman
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9781934843888

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A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a part in consolidating a new national identity. Based on a wide range of textual and visual historical documents, the book covers both what Israelis wore in various circumstances and what they said and wrote about clothing and fashion. Written in a clear and accessible style that will appeal to the general reader as well as students and scholars, A Coat of Many Colors introduces the reader both to Israel's history during its formative years and to the rich field of dress culture.

Secularizing the Sacred

Secularizing the Sacred
Title Secularizing the Sacred PDF eBook
Author Alec Mishory
Publisher BRILL
Pages 435
Release 2019-07-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004405275

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As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion.” Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood.

The Awakening Desert

The Awakening Desert
Title The Awakening Desert PDF eBook
Author Michael Evenari
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 223
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Science
ISBN 3642744605

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Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel. Evenari takes us on his exciting expeditions in the company of his beloved wife. He tells us of his meetings with many personalities and about his farm in the Negev. The discovery of long forgotten floodwater irrigated farm systems from the times of King Salomon and their reconstruction became a successful experiment which lead him to teach this approach of runoff agriculture in many parts of the world, initializing progress in the development of various arid areas. As a tribute to his successful scientific life, Evenari was awarded the Balzan Prize in 1988. In April 1989, Michael Evenari died at the age of 84.

The Colors of Jews

The Colors of Jews
Title The Colors of Jews PDF eBook
Author Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 321
Release 2007-06-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0253219272

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Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India. Kaye/Kantrowitz delves into the largely uncharted territory of Jews of color and argues that Jews are an increasingly multiracial people. From publisher description.

Hanukkah in America

Hanukkah in America
Title Hanukkah in America PDF eBook
Author Dianne Ashton
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 353
Release 2018-09-25
Genre History
ISBN 1479858951

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Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural references, what ties them together is that they all celebrate a holiday that is different in America than it is any place else. For the past two hundred years, American Jews have been transforming the ancient holiday of Hanukkah from a simple occasion into something grand. Each year, as they retell its story and enact its customs, they bring their ever-changing perspectives and desires to its celebration. Providing an attractive alternative to the Christian dominated December, rabbis and lay people alike have addressed contemporary hopes by fashioning an authentically Jewish festival that blossomed in their American world. The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in American Jewish life. The holiday’s distinctive transformation from a minor festival to a major occasion that looms large in the American Jewish psyche is a marker of American Jewish life. Drawing on a varied archive of songs, plays, liturgy, sermons, and a range of illustrative material, as well as developing portraits of various communities, congregations, and rabbis, Hanukkah in America reveals how an almost forgotten festival became the most visible of American Jewish holidays.