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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Yaacov Shavit

b. 1944

Yaacov Shavit is a professor in the department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the cultural history of modern Jews. In the 1970s, he founded and edited Katedra, a periodical dedicated to the history of settlement in the land of Israel. He is the author of prose works, poetry, and children’s books.

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