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Author:
Kravel-Tovi, Michal, author.
Title:
When the state winks : the performance of Jewish conversion in Israel / Michal Kravel-Tovi.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Conversion--Judaism.
Jewish converts.
Jews--Identity.
Zionism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue : the naked truth on Tel Aviv's beaches -- Introduction : taking winking seriously -- The conversion mission -- National mission -- State workers -- The conversion performance -- Legible signs -- Dramaturgical entanglements -- Biographical scripts -- Comp : please do not treat epilogue as part of part 2 -- Epilogue : winking like a state.
Summary:
The first ethnography of state-run Jewish conversion in contemporary Israel, this book offers a fresh perspective on religious conversion as a tool of nationally driven population policy.
Series:
Religion, culture, and public life
ISBN:
0231183240
9780231183246
OCLC:
(OCoLC)978351855
LCCN:
2017011282
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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