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Hizky Shoham discusses the Jewishness of consumer rituals in the Jewish sector of British Mandate Palestine (the “Yishuv”). Understanding consumerism as a culture for all intents and purposes, Shoham looks at several case studies of public festivals and domestic rituals that conveyed to the entire Yishuv society the myths of identity construction, self-expression, and self-fulfillment through the act of purchasing. These rituals, especially the Tel Aviv Purim carnival and the bar/bat mitzvah ceremonies, were typical products of consumer culture but simultaneously perceived as authentic markers of Jewish identity. The intersection of consumer culture with Jewish culture in the Yishuv, both in the public and domestic spheres, highlights the ritualized act of purchasing as a new locus for the construction of modern Jewish identities.

The author wishes to acknowledge the participants and organizers of the stimulating conference about Jewish consumer cultures that took place at the GHI in Washington, DC, in May 2015, and the Jewish history seminar at the UCL, led by Michael Berkowitz, in February of 2016. Some insightful comments by Francois Guesnet, Paul Lerner, and Anne Schenderlein were particularly helpful.

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  2. 2.

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  10. 10.

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  13. 13.

    Leigh Eric Schmidt, Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays (Princeton, NJ, 1996); Elizabeth H. Pleck, Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture and Family Rituals (Cambridge, MA, 2000).

  14. 14.

    Ernst Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, NY), 107.

  15. 15.

    Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (Chicago, IL, 1995), 20–28; Anita Shapira, “The Origins of the Myth of the ‘New Jew’: The Zionist Variety,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 13 (1997): 253–68.

  16. 16.

    Barbara J. Smith, The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy 1920–1929 (Syracuse, NY, 1993); Jacob Metzer, The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine (Cambridge, UK, 1998); and mainly Anat Helman, Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities, trans. Haim Watzman (Waltham, MA, 2010).

  17. 17.

    Anat Helman, Or Veyam Hikifuha: Tarbut Tel Avivit Bitkufat Hamandat (Haifa, 2007), 119. Compare De Grazia with Furlough, The Sex of Things; Mary Louise Roberts, “Gender, Consumption, and Commodity Culture,” American Historical Review 103 (1998): 817–44; Matthew Hilton, “The Female Consumer and the Politics of Consumption in Twentieth-Century Britain,” The Historical Journal 45, no. 1 (2002): 103–28.

  18. 18.

    For example, Oz Almog, The Sabra: the Creation of the New Jew, trans. Haim Watzman (Berkeley, CA, 2000), 209–25.

  19. 19.

    For example, John Maynard Keynes, “National Self-Sufficiency,” The Yale Review 22 (1933): 755–69; Ivan T. Berend, “The Failure of Economic Nationalism: Central and Eastern Europe before World War I,” Revue économique 51, no. 2 (2000): 315–22.

  20. 20.

    Michael Berkowitz, Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge, UK, 1993), 119–43; Reuveni, “Advertising,” 129–30.

  21. 21.

    Anat Helman, “European Jews in the Levant Heat: Climate and Culture in 1920s and 1930s Tel Aviv,” Journal of Israeli History 22, no. 1 (2003): 71–90; Anat Helman, “Two Urban Celebrations in Jewish Palestine,” Journal of Urban History 32, no. 3 (2006): 380–403; and Helman, Young Tel Aviv, 77–103.

  22. 22.

    Dafna Hirsch and Ofra Tene, “Hummus: The Making of an Israeli Culinary Cult,” Journal of Consumer Culture 13, no. 1 (2013): 25–45; Ofra Tene, Ha-batim ha-levanim yimalʼu (Bene Beraq, 2013); Liora Halperin, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920–1948 (New Haven, CT, 2015), 44–49, 83–92.

  23. 23.

    For example, Ilan S. Troen, “Frontier Myths and their Application in America and Israel: A Transnational perspective,” Journal of American History 86, no. 3 (1999): 1209–30; Dafna Hirsch, “‘We are here to bring the West, not only to ourselves’: Zionist Occidentalism and the Discourse of Hygiene in Mandate Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 4 (2009): 577–94.

  24. 24.

    See Halperin, Babel in Zion, pp. 99–141.

  25. 25.

    For example, Charles Liebman and Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Civil Religion in Israel: Judaism and Political Culture in the Jewish State (Berkeley, CA, 1983); Eliezer Don-Yehiya, “Hanukkah and the Myth of the Maccabees in Zionist Ideology and in Israeli Society,” Jewish Journal of Sociology 34, no. 1 (1992): 5–23; Zerubavel, Recovered Roots, 96–102, 218; Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, “Wedding Ceremony, Religion, and Tradition: The Shertok Family Debate, 1922,” Israel Studies Review 27, no. 1 (2012): 98–124; Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, “Traditional Revolution: The Issue of Marriage on Religious Kibbutzim, 1929–1948—A Comparative View,” Journal of Israeli History 31, no. 1 (2012): 109–28.

  26. 26.

    Schmidt, Consumer Rites, 19–23.

  27. 27.

    For example, “Tel Aviv: Mi mashgi’ach al hamefakhim,” Davar, April 3, 1945, 5.

  28. 28.

    “Tel Aviv,” Davar, April 8, 1936, 6.

  29. 29.

    Yosef Tabori, Pesach Dorot: Prakim Betoldot Leil Haseder (Tel Aviv, 1996): 48–130, 350–377.

  30. 30.

    Joselit, The Wonders of America, 219–63; Reuveni, “Advertising,” 130–35; Ashton, Hanukkah in America, 113–14.

  31. 31.

    Anat Helman, “Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about ‘the First Hebrew City’?,” in The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, ed. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp (Philadelphia, PA, 2008), 116–127.

  32. 32.

    Anat Helman, “Torah, avodah u-vatei kafeh: Dat u-farhesiya be-Tel Aviv ha-mandatorit,” Cathedra 105 (2003): 85–110.

  33. 33.

    Hizky Shoham, “Of Other Cinematic Spaces: Urban Zionism in Early Hebrew Cinema,” Israel Studies Review 26, no. 2 (2011): 109–31; Hizky Shoham, Carnival in Tel-Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (Boston, MA, 2014).

  34. 34.

    Michael Berkowitz, “The Invention of a Secular Ritual: Western Jewry and Nationalized Tourism in Palestine, 1922–1933,” in The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response?, ed. S. Daniel Breslauer (Albany, NY, 1997), 73–95; Hizky Shoham, “‘A Huge National Assemblage’: Tel Aviv as a Pilgrimage Site in Purim Celebrations (1920–1935),” Journal of Israeli History 28, no. 1 (2009): 1–20.

  35. 35.

    Hizky Shoham, “‘Buy Local’ or ‘Buy Jewish’? Separatist Consumption in Interwar Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no. 3 (2013): 469–89. See also Deborah Bernstein and Badi Hasisi, “‘Buy and Promote the National Cause’: Consumption, Class Formation and Nationalism in Mandate Palestine Society,” Nations and Nationalism 14, no. 1 (2008): 127–50; Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford, CA, 2015), 53–76.

  36. 36.

    For example, Stephen Constantine, “The Buy British Campaign of 1931,” European Journal of Marketing 21, no. 4 (1993): 44–59; Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Boston, MA, 1999); Karl Gerth, China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation (Cambridge, MA, 2003); Nancy Reynolds, “National Socks and the ‘Nylon Woman’: Materiality, Gender, and Nationalism in Textile Marketing in Semicolonial Egypt, 1930–1956,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (2011): 49–74.

  37. 37.

    For example, Lea W-tz, “Hovat ha-isha,” Al Hamishmar–Bama Hofshit, undated, 2–3, CZA S8/2267/1 – before Purim; or ad for “Assis” (a beverage company) before Yom Kippur, Davar, October 1, 1930, 3. Articles and ads like those were numerous.

  38. 38.

    Batya Carmiel, Tel Aviv be-tahposet va-keter: Hagigot Purim 1912–1935 [Tel Aviv Crowned and Costumed: Purim Celebrations 1912–1935], (Tel-Aviv, 1999), 241–242; “Hashavu’a ba-pe’ula lema’an Totzeret Ha’aretz,” Doar-Hayom, March 13, 1935.

  39. 39.

    Moshe Glikson, “Al haperek,” Ha’aretz, March 28, 1929.

  40. 40.

    See, for example, editorial letter, Ha’aretz March 8, 1927; A. Z. Rabinowitch, “Beveit yisrael ra’iti sha’aruriya (Hoshe’a vav),” a proclamation from December 1, 1931, posters collection, National Library of Jerusalem, file V1836/e; Avraham Shavdron, “Ke-ein krovetz lakarnival,” Ha’aretz March 11, 1931; H. Shorer, “Ivelet-Purim,” Hapo’el Hatza’ir 8, no. 19, March 14, 1930, 2–3; H. Shorer, “Hamasekha sheli,” Hapo’el Hatza’ir 22–23, March 18, 1932, 12.

  41. 41.

    Sigal Davidi Kunda, “The Flight of the Camel: The Levant Fair of 1934 and the Creation of Situated Modernism,” in Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse, ed. Haim Yacobi (Aldershot, 2004), 52–75.

  42. 42.

    Carnival Committee advertisement, Doar-Hayom, March 6, 1928; “Tel-Aviv ve-Yafo,” Ha’aretz, March 2, 1928; “Likhvod Purim,” Doar-Hayom, March 21, 1929.

  43. 43.

    From A. Yemini to Tel-Aviv municipality, received on March 9, 1936, TMA 04-3222.

  44. 44.

    “Amar azmavet,” Doar-Hayom, March 25, 1932.

  45. 45.

    From the Tel Aviv and Jaffa Merchants’ Organization to the municipality, Feb. 20, 1936; and from the Palestine Industrialists’ Association to the municipality, March 2, 1936; from Dizengoff to industrialists’ association, March 3, 1936, TAMA 04–3222.

  46. 46.

    Roger D. Abrahams, “The Language of Festivals: Celebrating the Economy,” in Celebrations: Studies in Festivity and Ritual, ed. Victor Turner (Washington, DC, 1982), 161–77.

  47. 47.

    Helman, Young Tel Aviv, 66–67.

  48. 48.

    Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Woodstock, NY, 1973), 1–16.

  49. 49.

    Helman, Young Tel Aviv, 67–75.

  50. 50.

    Ibid, 68.

  51. 51.

    Helman, “Two Urban Celebrations,” 388–89.

  52. 52.

    Pleck, Celebrating the Family.

  53. 53.

    Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (New York, 1962), 150–54; Howard P. Chudacoff, How Old Are You? Age Consciousness in American Culture (Princeton, NJ, 1989), 4–5.

  54. 54.

    Arendt, The Human Condition, 183–84.

  55. 55.

    Vyta Baselice, Dante Burrichter, and Peter N. Stearns, “Debating the Birthday: Innovation and Resistance in Celebrating Children,” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 12, no. 2 (2019): 262–84.

  56. 56.

    Pleck, Celebrating the Family, 141–61. On various national traditions, see Barbara Rinkoff, Birthday Parties around the World (New York, 1967).

  57. 57.

    Hizky Shoham, “It’s about Time: Birthdays as Modern Rites of Temporality,” Time & Society 30, no. 1 (2021): 78–99.

  58. 58.

    See, for example, Shaul Mendel Halevy Rabinovitch, “Zekher Li-tzi’at Sefarad,” Ha-Magid, May 21, 1891, 2; Marion A. Kaplan, The Making of Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (Oxford, UK, 1991), 59. Cf. Chudacoff, How Old Are You?, 129.

  59. 59.

    Sachlav Stoler-Liss, “‘Mothers Birth the Nation’: The Social Construction of Zionist Motherhood in Wartime in Israeli Parents’ Manuals,” Nashim 6 (2003): 104–18; Tammy Razi, “The Family Is Worthy of Being Rebuilt: Perceptions of the Jewish Family in Mandate Palestine, 1918–1948,” Journal of Family History 35, no. 4 (2010): 395–415; Ofra Tene, Ha-batim ha-levanim yimalʼu (Tel Aviv, 2013), 222–24, 235–36.

  60. 60.

    For example, Yehudit Horowitz, “Mo’adon Ha-yeladim,” Devar Ha-po’elet 6, no. 1, March 28, 1939, 28.

  61. 61.

    Michael Hilton, Bar Mitzvah: A History (Lincoln, NE, 2014), 54–73, 170–80.

  62. 62.

    “Ḥagigah yafah,” Doar Hayom, January 27, 1927, 4.

  63. 63.

    “Simḥat bar miẓvah be-vet ha-’admor mi-Sadigora,” Hatzofeh, August 28, 1941, 4.

  64. 64.

    “Bimkom hazmanah peratit,” Haboker, December 24, 1932, 1; Moshe Braver, “Yom hikansi le-miẓvot,” Haverenu (the student publication leaflet of the Tahkemoni school in Jerusalem) 104 (April 1933): 3–4 (in the Aviezer Yellin Archive for Jewish Education, container 3.147, file 20); “Mar u-geveret Edward Egyon” (Hebrew), Davar, March 9, 1938, 6.

  65. 65.

    Yaakov Shabtai, “Adoshem,” in Ibid., Uncle Peretz Takes Off: Short Stories (Woodstock, NY, 2004), 7–24.

  66. 66.

    Braver, “Yom hikansi le-miẓvot”; Eliezer Smoli, “Bar Mitzvah,” in Orhah: A Literary Anthology (Tel Aviv, 1934), 147 and 152; Shlomo Me’iri, Bi-netive maḥteret u-ve-’ereẓ gezerah: Mi-Petaḥ-Tikvah le-Kenya u-va-ḥhazarah (Tel Aviv, 1993), 75–77.

  67. 67.

    Me’iri, Bi-netive maḥteret u-ve-’ereẓ gezerah, 77.

  68. 68.

    Shmuel Yedidya, “Ḥagigat bar miẓvah sheli,” Haverenu 79 (April 1930): 3–4 (Aviezer Yellin Archive for Jewish Education, container 3.147, file 20); Braver, “Yom hikansi le-miẓvot.”

  69. 69.

    “Mah ḥadash be-viratenu,” Doar Hayom, Mar. 17, 1933, 8.

  70. 70.

    For example, Letters to the Editor, Hatzofeh, Oct. 21, 1942, 3.

  71. 71.

    For example, Dunash, “Reshimot,” Hatzofeh, July 14, 1939, 2; Reuven Gafni, “Ma’avakim ‘al hakamat bate keneset bi-shekhunat po‘alim, 1922–1934,” Kenishta 4 (2010/11): 134–54.

  72. 72.

    For example, “Lehaskir, liskor, lehaḥalif,” Davar, October 31, 1947, 8.

  73. 73.

    “’Ulamey Rut,” Maariv, January 19, 1953, 1.

  74. 74.

    For example, “Mosadot ve-’ishim,” Hatzofeh, April 23, 1947, 4.

  75. 75.

    “Harav Yaakov Berman be-Ḥadera,” Hatzofeh, February 6, 1942, 3; David Avisar, “Bimkom derashah,” Hapoel Hatza’ir 12, no. 21, July 4, 1941, 6–8.

  76. 76.

    Ad in Davar, June 7, 1946, 10. See also Haim Be’er, The Pure Element of Time, trans. Barbara Harshav (Hanover, NH, 2003), 204–10.

  77. 77.

    Yosef Yambor, “Kabẓanim tel ’avivitim,” Al Hamishmar, November 12, 1943, 2.

  78. 78.

    For example, Yehuda Goor (Grazovski), Milon ‘ivri (Tel Aviv, 1946), s.v. “bar mitzvah.” Cf Hilton, Bar Mitzvah, 170–71.

  79. 79.

    “Mi-divre ha-rahar R. M. A. Amiel,” Hatzofeh, January 15, 1941, 3.

  80. 80.

    For example, Davar, February 4, 1943, 3; Itton Meyuhad, April 27 and May 4, 1945, 1.

  81. 81.

    A. Rosenzweig et al., On the Verge of Youth: A Bar-Mitzvah Book (Tel Aviv, 1943), 24.

  82. 82.

    Dan Benaya Seri, ’Adam shav ’el beto (Jerusalem, 2009), 99–109; Ruth Almog, “Ha-sifriyah sheli,” in Me-’ayin naḥalti ’et shiri?, ed. Ruth Carton-Blum (Tel Aviv, 2002), 85–87; Avigdor Shinan, “Ha-bar miẓvah ke-tekes ma‘avar kalkali,” in Ha-tarmil ha-yehudi: Masa‘ bar miẓvah be-kehilot Yisra’el, ed. Aliza Lavie (Jerusalem, 2010), 217–19.

  83. 83.

    Joselit, The Wonders of America, 102; Marion Kaplan, ed., Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618–1945 (Oxford, UK, 2005), 328.

  84. 84.

    “Ba-’aspaklariyah,” Hatzofeh, June 3, 1942, 2.

  85. 85.

    “Ve-ka’asher shenorartem teshnoreru,” Hamashkif, December 27, 1943, 3.

  86. 86.

    “Bar miẓvah be-lo’ miẓvah,” Hatzofeh, August 13, 1945, 2.

  87. 87.

    For example, “Ḥagigot bar mitẓvah,” Davar, November 20, 1947, 4. Cf. “Yeme huledet lama?,” Davar, November 2, 1947, 2.

  88. 88.

    Hizky Shoham, “‘A Birthday Party, Only a Little Bigger’: A Historical Anthropology of the Israeli Bat Mitzvah,” Jewish Culture and History 16, no. 3 (2015): 275–92.

  89. 89.

    Yosef Ḥayyim, Ben-Ish Ḥai: Halakhot (1901; Jerusalem, 1994), Re’eh §16, p. 251; Petaḥya Horenblass, Pitḥei she’arim, s.v. “13,” §16 (Warsaw, 1909), 7a.

  90. 90.

    Baruch Hermon, “Yeladim historiyim,” Davar, August 1, 1952, 15.

  91. 91.

    K. Shabtai, “Keẓad meḥankhim?,” Davar, September 28, 1951, 3.

  92. 92.

    Tova, “Mesibot pe’er u-matanot,” Hatzofeh, August 27, 1954, 2.

  93. 93.

    Shoham, “A Birthday Party.”

  94. 94.

    Hilton, Bar Mitzvah, 109.

  95. 95.

    Hizky Shoham, “The Conceptual and Anthropological History of Bat Mitzvah: Two lexical paths and Two Jewish identities,” Contributions to the History of Concepts 13, no. 2 (2018): 100–22.

  96. 96.

    Hilton, Bar Mitzvah, 170; Hasia R. Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Berkeley, CA, 2004), 290.

  97. 97.

    Cf. Reuveni and Roemer, Longing, Belonging, 17.

  98. 98.

    Pleck, Celebrating the Family, 64. See: Hizky Shoham, “‘You Can’t Pick Your Family’: Celebrating Israeli Familism around the Seder Table,” Journal of Family History 39, no. 3 (2014): 239–60.

  99. 99.

    See note 4 above.

  100. 100.

    Hizky Shoham, “Rethinking Tradition: From Ontological Reality to Assigned Temporal Meaning,” European Journal of Sociology 52, no. 2 (2011): 313–40.

  101. 101.

    In a nutshell: Asaf Likhovsky, “Post-Post-Zionist Historiography,” Israel Studies 15, no. 2 (2010): 1–23.

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