TY - BOOK ID - 77924997 TI - Carnival in Tel Aviv : purim and the celebration of urban zionism PY - 2014 SN - 1618113623 9781618113849 1618113844 9781618113511 1618113518 9781618113627 PB - Academic Studies Press DB - UniCat KW - Zionism. KW - Purim KW - Esther, Feast of KW - Feast of Esther KW - Feast of Lots KW - Lots, Feast of KW - Purim (Feast of Esther) KW - Fasts and feasts KW - Half-shekel (Jewish rite) KW - Jews KW - Zionist movement KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Judaism KW - Zionism KW - Politics and government KW - Restoration KW - History KW - Middle East KW - Israel & Palestine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77924997 AB - 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. ER -