In this very engaging book, Anat Helman shows us how the public culture created in Israel during the very vibrant, proteans grew out of all these factors, but particularly through the encounters and sensibilities of the people during the young country's first years of statehood. With a careful hand and a sensitive ear, she recreates for us the daily practices of Israel's inhabitants, reconstructing both the large events and small details of everyday experiences with equal focus
Anat Helman
Anat Helman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her most recent book is Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s.
