Arieh Bruce Saposnik
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195331219
- eISBN:
- 9780199868100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331219.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter examines the impact of the “Uganda proposal” on Zionist cultural activity in Palestine. The small Zionist Yishuv (prestate community) was deeply divided between supporters and opponents ...
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This chapter examines the impact of the “Uganda proposal” on Zionist cultural activity in Palestine. The small Zionist Yishuv (prestate community) was deeply divided between supporters and opponents of a British offer of what some understood to be Jewish statehood in East Africa. In the bitter debate that ensued, political‐organizational divisions and personal rivalries fused with ideological discord and divergent visions of Jewish nationhood and the future national culture. Both sides considered their opponents to be exemplars of “exilic” thinking, evidence of Jewish disease, and lack of a healthy national constitution. Ultimately, the chapter argues, the controversy helped to give new form to the discourse of Zionism in Palestine and to the character of the Yishuv's public spaces, as holidays and community celebrations were given the form of a national liturgy.Less
This chapter examines the impact of the “Uganda proposal” on Zionist cultural activity in Palestine. The small Zionist Yishuv (prestate community) was deeply divided between supporters and opponents of a British offer of what some understood to be Jewish statehood in East Africa. In the bitter debate that ensued, political‐organizational divisions and personal rivalries fused with ideological discord and divergent visions of Jewish nationhood and the future national culture. Both sides considered their opponents to be exemplars of “exilic” thinking, evidence of Jewish disease, and lack of a healthy national constitution. Ultimately, the chapter argues, the controversy helped to give new form to the discourse of Zionism in Palestine and to the character of the Yishuv's public spaces, as holidays and community celebrations were given the form of a national liturgy.
Anna Servaes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462104
- eISBN:
- 9781626745599
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462104.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Travel with La Guiannée in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois to glimpse the Franco-American cultural identity in these two Midwestern communities that have continued for over ...
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Travel with La Guiannée in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois to glimpse the Franco-American cultural identity in these two Midwestern communities that have continued for over 250 years and even have survived language loss due in part to socio-political pressures. Cultural identity presents itself in many forms, not just language, and appears as festivals and traditional celebrations, which take on a more profound and visible role when language loss occurs. On New Year’s Eve, the guionneurs, those who participate in the celebration, disguise themselves in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century costume and travel throughout their community, singing and wishing New Year’s greetings to other members of the community. This celebration, like others, such as the Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana, Mumming in Ireland and Newfoundland, and the Carnaval de Binche, belong to a category of begging quest festivals that have existed since the Medieval Age. These festivals may also be adaptations or evolutions of pre-Christian pagan rituals. Part one creates an historical context of the development of the French mentality and cultural identity as well as an historical context of La Guiannée in order to compare and understand the contemporary identity and celebration. Part two analyzes the celebration to create an affirmation of community by using liminal theories proposed by Victor Turner, who states that during such rites or rituals, individuals undergo a transformation to reveal cultural information to others. Part three discusses cultural continuity and its relationship to language to reveal contemporary expressions of the Franco-American identity.Less
Travel with La Guiannée in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois to glimpse the Franco-American cultural identity in these two Midwestern communities that have continued for over 250 years and even have survived language loss due in part to socio-political pressures. Cultural identity presents itself in many forms, not just language, and appears as festivals and traditional celebrations, which take on a more profound and visible role when language loss occurs. On New Year’s Eve, the guionneurs, those who participate in the celebration, disguise themselves in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century costume and travel throughout their community, singing and wishing New Year’s greetings to other members of the community. This celebration, like others, such as the Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana, Mumming in Ireland and Newfoundland, and the Carnaval de Binche, belong to a category of begging quest festivals that have existed since the Medieval Age. These festivals may also be adaptations or evolutions of pre-Christian pagan rituals. Part one creates an historical context of the development of the French mentality and cultural identity as well as an historical context of La Guiannée in order to compare and understand the contemporary identity and celebration. Part two analyzes the celebration to create an affirmation of community by using liminal theories proposed by Victor Turner, who states that during such rites or rituals, individuals undergo a transformation to reveal cultural information to others. Part three discusses cultural continuity and its relationship to language to reveal contemporary expressions of the Franco-American identity.
Edward William Lane and Jason Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9789774165603
- eISBN:
- 9781617975516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165603.003.0027
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter turns to private festivities and celebrations that take place within the family at home. These include marriage (discussed in detail in earlier chapters) and the days that follow, the ...
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This chapter turns to private festivities and celebrations that take place within the family at home. These include marriage (discussed in detail in earlier chapters) and the days that follow, the birth of a child, circumcision of a boy, and the acceptance of a boy into a trade. This chapter looks at the types of entertainment employed—music, singers, and dancers, or Qur’an recitation and zikr—for men and women’s quarters, guests that visit the house or take part in processions, and the different foods and rituals that are observed.Less
This chapter turns to private festivities and celebrations that take place within the family at home. These include marriage (discussed in detail in earlier chapters) and the days that follow, the birth of a child, circumcision of a boy, and the acceptance of a boy into a trade. This chapter looks at the types of entertainment employed—music, singers, and dancers, or Qur’an recitation and zikr—for men and women’s quarters, guests that visit the house or take part in processions, and the different foods and rituals that are observed.
J. Michelle Coghlan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474411202
- eISBN:
- 9781474426800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411202.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This concluding chapter turns from James’s multivalent spatial memory to a series of radical texts that unearth precisely that “other” Paris for the Popular Front by exploring Guy Endore’s 1933 ...
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This concluding chapter turns from James’s multivalent spatial memory to a series of radical texts that unearth precisely that “other” Paris for the Popular Front by exploring Guy Endore’s 1933 bestseller, The Werewolf of Paris, a novel whose unlikely return to the Commune interrupts both its ostensible horror plot and its initial setting in 1920s Expat Paris. Reading Endore’s retelling of the Commune alongside both contemporary worker theater productions and agitprop that drew on the conventions of pulp fiction to reclaim 1871 for the American Left, I recover the way that radical pulp and radical theater in this period used the medium of horror to radically transform historical fiction and conventional histories of the Commune. Redeploying the sensational tropes so often mobilized in mainstream American narratives of the Commune so as to restage the horror of the Commune as its suppression rather than its existence, these texts escape the cul-de-sac of trauma by espousing what I term an “insurgent” rather than simply melancholic fixity on the past, refashioning the space of the Commune in Marxist thought and U.S. memory.Less
This concluding chapter turns from James’s multivalent spatial memory to a series of radical texts that unearth precisely that “other” Paris for the Popular Front by exploring Guy Endore’s 1933 bestseller, The Werewolf of Paris, a novel whose unlikely return to the Commune interrupts both its ostensible horror plot and its initial setting in 1920s Expat Paris. Reading Endore’s retelling of the Commune alongside both contemporary worker theater productions and agitprop that drew on the conventions of pulp fiction to reclaim 1871 for the American Left, I recover the way that radical pulp and radical theater in this period used the medium of horror to radically transform historical fiction and conventional histories of the Commune. Redeploying the sensational tropes so often mobilized in mainstream American narratives of the Commune so as to restage the horror of the Commune as its suppression rather than its existence, these texts escape the cul-de-sac of trauma by espousing what I term an “insurgent” rather than simply melancholic fixity on the past, refashioning the space of the Commune in Marxist thought and U.S. memory.
Jacalyn Duffin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199743179
- eISBN:
- 9780199345045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743179.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The life, death and subsequent veneration of Saints Cosmas and Damian is traced, from their origins in the 2ndC AD to their martyrdom in the Diocletian persecutions and extending well beyond to their ...
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The life, death and subsequent veneration of Saints Cosmas and Damian is traced, from their origins in the 2ndC AD to their martyrdom in the Diocletian persecutions and extending well beyond to their sites of devotion. Admired by doctors and pharmacists, the medical saints become patrons of towns, schools, and professional organizations around the world. Duffin locates and interviews the founders of the feast day celebrations in Toronto that began in 1987. They locate the inspiration as their original home in Campobasso province, Italy, and they mention an older feast in Utica, New York. The Utica feast began in 1912 by Italian immigrants from Alberobello in Barí, who were striving to keep the traditions. Some claim to have experienced miracles. She also presents several theories that could help account for the transfer and revival of the cult of medical saints.Less
The life, death and subsequent veneration of Saints Cosmas and Damian is traced, from their origins in the 2ndC AD to their martyrdom in the Diocletian persecutions and extending well beyond to their sites of devotion. Admired by doctors and pharmacists, the medical saints become patrons of towns, schools, and professional organizations around the world. Duffin locates and interviews the founders of the feast day celebrations in Toronto that began in 1987. They locate the inspiration as their original home in Campobasso province, Italy, and they mention an older feast in Utica, New York. The Utica feast began in 1912 by Italian immigrants from Alberobello in Barí, who were striving to keep the traditions. Some claim to have experienced miracles. She also presents several theories that could help account for the transfer and revival of the cult of medical saints.
Jacalyn Duffin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199743179
- eISBN:
- 9780199345045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743179.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
In trying to understand the function of the ancient saints in the New World and to test the theories introduced in the previous chapter, the author embarks on surveys of pilgrims to the feast day ...
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In trying to understand the function of the ancient saints in the New World and to test the theories introduced in the previous chapter, the author embarks on surveys of pilgrims to the feast day celebrations in Toronto, Utica, Manhattan, and Howard Beach. She also investigates their cult in Mexico. The surveys and interviews demonstrate that both the medical attributes and their twinliness are important to pilgrims. She attempts to connect these findings to the theories, and presents papers at a few academic conferences with mixed results. Some scholars complain that she and the pilgrims must not call the reported happy events “miracles.” They argue that miracles are rare and rarefied and can be determined only by rigorous investigation.Less
In trying to understand the function of the ancient saints in the New World and to test the theories introduced in the previous chapter, the author embarks on surveys of pilgrims to the feast day celebrations in Toronto, Utica, Manhattan, and Howard Beach. She also investigates their cult in Mexico. The surveys and interviews demonstrate that both the medical attributes and their twinliness are important to pilgrims. She attempts to connect these findings to the theories, and presents papers at a few academic conferences with mixed results. Some scholars complain that she and the pilgrims must not call the reported happy events “miracles.” They argue that miracles are rare and rarefied and can be determined only by rigorous investigation.
Jacalyn Duffin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199743179
- eISBN:
- 9780199345045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743179.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The research had to be carried to Europe for two reasons: first, to uncover the connections to original sites of devotion to the medical saints, possibly extending back to the pagan twins; second, to ...
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The research had to be carried to Europe for two reasons: first, to uncover the connections to original sites of devotion to the medical saints, possibly extending back to the pagan twins; second, to investigate what exactly were the miracles approved by the Roman Catholic Church in saint-making. Scholar and collector, Pierre Julien, in Paris provided useful orientation. A ramble to the leading Italian sites of veneration in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2001 feast-day celebrations provoked encounters with custodians of local traditions from Torino to Sicily and many places in between. A first foray into the Vatican archives revealed the great similarities of the approved miracles to those of the American feast-day pilgrims: they were all about physical healing. Many more trips to the Vatican resulted in a book on the miracles used in four centuries of canonization.Less
The research had to be carried to Europe for two reasons: first, to uncover the connections to original sites of devotion to the medical saints, possibly extending back to the pagan twins; second, to investigate what exactly were the miracles approved by the Roman Catholic Church in saint-making. Scholar and collector, Pierre Julien, in Paris provided useful orientation. A ramble to the leading Italian sites of veneration in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2001 feast-day celebrations provoked encounters with custodians of local traditions from Torino to Sicily and many places in between. A first foray into the Vatican archives revealed the great similarities of the approved miracles to those of the American feast-day pilgrims: they were all about physical healing. Many more trips to the Vatican resulted in a book on the miracles used in four centuries of canonization.
