Becoming Hebrew. The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine. By Arieh Bruce Saposnik

摘要

The topic of Arieh Bruce Saposnik’s Becoming Hebrew is the emergence ofna new Hebrew national culture in the Yishuv (the Jewish settlement) innOttoman Palestine from the last two decades of the nineteenth century untilnthe outbreak of World War I. Saposnik nicely describes and analyzes the cre-nation and distribution of Hebrew national culture in Palestine from its practicalnaspects, arguing that the new Hebrew culture was “very deliberately and self-nconsciously constructed” (15) as part of a process of homogenization. He alsonunderstands the new Hebrew culture as a mélange of the Jewish world,nEuropean nationalist and labor ideologies, as well as romantic imaginaries ofnArab and Bedouin culture.