Anat Helman: 2 books
Becoming Israeli
National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
With a light touch and many wonderful illustrations, historian Anat Helman investigates "life on the ground" in Israel during the first years of statehood. She looks at how citizens--natives of the land, longtime immigrants, and newcomers--coped with the state's efforts to turn an incredibly...
by Anat Helman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a part...