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- Title
Ḥama venehederet (Hot and Wonderful): Home, Belonging, and the Image of the Yored in Israeli Pop Music.
- Authors
Habib, Jasmin; Locker-Biletzki, Amir
- Abstract
Since the mid-1970s, the emigration of Jewish-Israelis to overseas destinations has become a recurring issue of acrimonious discussion and debate in the Israeli public sphere. This article traces historical anxieties about emigration, provides political frameworks for understanding related discussions and debates, and examines their popular cultural expressions. By analyzing three songs performed by Israeli singers Arik Einstein, Oshik Levi, and the indie group Shmemel, the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of this debate are situated and explored. We argue that these songs reflect elements of the public debate about the angst of the Israeli, sabra, Ashkenazi middle-class émigré.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; JEWISH migrations; SABRAS; EINSTEIN, Arik, 1939-2013; POPULAR music; ASHKENAZIM
- Publication
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0882-8539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sho.2018.0001