Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s

by Anat Helman

With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly diverse group of people into a homogenous whole. She investigates the efforts to make Hebrew the lingua franca of Israel, the uses of humor, and the effects of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611685575
• ISBN13: 9781611685572
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"