The Kultura Work
Yaacov Shavit
1997
The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the society, namely, the human landscape, but also “the natural landscape,” and the mutual affinity between the society and the landscape. In equal…
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