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 a constant
military presence, along with such familiar aspects of daily life
as communal dining on the kibbutz, the nightmare of trying to board
a bus, and moviegoing as a form of escapism. In the process Helman
shows how ordinary people adapted to the standards and rules of the
political and cultural elites and negotiated the chaos of early
statehood.
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