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The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its main public sphere.

Zionism. --- Purim --- Esther, Feast of --- Feast of Esther --- Feast of Lots --- Lots, Feast of --- Purim (Feast of Esther) --- Fasts and feasts --- Half-shekel (Jewish rite) --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Judaism --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- History --- Middle East --- Israel & Palestine

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Israel Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization of Jewish rituals, myths, and symbols in Israeli culture throughout “the long twentieth century” of Zionism and on to the present, and to demonstrate how a new strand of Judaism developed in Israel from the grassroots. But could this grassroots Israeli culture develop into a shared symbolic space for both Jews and Arabs? By probing the political implications of the minutiae of life, the book argues that this popular culture might come to define Jewish identity in Israel of the 21st century.

Holidays --- Fasts and feasts --- Judaism and culture --- Judaism and state --- Judaism. --- Israel --- Social life and customs.