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General Introduction -- Center/Periphery and Patterns of Protest -- The Mimouna in North Africa: A Symmetry of Symbols -- The Mimouna in Israel-from a Sectoral Festivity to a National Holiday -- A Tradition and its Revival -- The Seharane Festival in Kurdistan: Closing a Ritual Circle -- Immigration and Settlement in Israel: The Loss of the Ethnic Identity -- The Attempts to Organize a National Seharane Festival in the 1970s -- The First Public Seharane Festival and its Resemblance to the Tradition -- The 1980s: The Seharane as the Arena of Political Clashes -- The 1990s: A Return to Folk Traditions -- The New Millennium: An Internal and Ritual Split -- The Last Decade: Decline and Retrenchment -- Discussion: An Ethnic Festival that Transcends Social Boundaries -- Pilgrimage -- Community and Family Life in Ethiopia -- The Seged -- The Seged Ritual in Ethiopia -- Discussion -- Identities in the Postmodern Age -- The Immigration of Ethiopian Jews and their Absorption in Israel -- The 1980s: The Initial Model of the Seged in Israel -- The 1990s: A Constructed and Political Ritual -- The New Century: Cooperation among Organizations and the Campaign for Official Recognition of the Seged -- 2010-2020: The Seged as a National Holiday.
by Rachel Sharaby ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 34