Prof. Hizky Shoham

Books:

• Mordecai is Riding a Horse: Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv (1908-1936) and the Building of a New Nation(Ramat-Gan and Sede-Boqer: Bar-Ilan University Press and Ben-Gurion university Press, 2013). [Hebrew]

Abridged Translation: Carnival in Tel-Aviv: Purim and the celebration of urban Zionism (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014).

• Israel Celebrates: Jewish Holidays and Civic Culture in Israel (Boston & Leiden: Brill, 2017).
• Why Bar and Bat Mitzvah? Initiation, Gender, and Spectacle in Jewish Cultures, forthcoming in Lamda: The Open University of Israel Press (winner of the Goldberg Prize). [Hebrew]

Articles:

• “Deep Conventionality, Or, Tracing the Meanings of Conventional Rituals.” Forthcoming in American Behavioral Scientist. 
• ““Our (Civil) way of Life”: The Folkloric Civil Sphere.” Forthcoming in Cultural Sociology. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17499755221124793. 
• “A Tale of Two Cultures: An Outline for a Comparative Cultural Analysis of Israeli and North American Jewry,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 21, 1 (2022): 1-20. 
• “The Jewish Consumer Culture of British Mandate Palestine,” Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe and America, eds. Paul Lerner, Anne Schenderlein, and Uwe Spiekermann, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 195-219. 
• “It is about time: Birthdays as modern rites of temporality.” Time & Society 30, 1 (2021): 78-99. 
• “The Israel BBQ as National Ritual: Performing Unofficial Nationalism, or Finding Meaning in Triviality.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9 (2021): 13–42.
• “’Small Sales Agents (of Nationalism) Inside the House’: Childhood, Consumer Culture, and Nationalism in Interwar Palestine’s Yishuv.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 12, 1 (2019): 88-112. 

Best article for 2019, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth. https://www.shcy.org/news-announcements/jhcy-best-article-prize-for-2019/

• “Zionist ‘Buy National’ Campaigns in Interwar Palestine.” Boycotts: Past and Present, ed. David Feldman, London: Palgrave, 2019, pp. 73-95. 
• “The Conceptual and Anthropological History of Bat Mitzvah: Two lexical paths and Two Jewish identities.” Contributions to the History of Concepts 13, 2 (2018): 100-122.
• “Bar and Bat Mitzvah in the Yishuv and Early Israel: From Rites of Initiation to Rites of Temporality.” AJS Review 42, 1 (2018): 133–157.
• [With Nissim Leon] “Belonging without commitment: the Christocentric view and the traditionist perspective on modern religion.” Culture and Religion 19, 2 (2018): 235-252. 
• “’A Birthday Party, Only a Little Bigger’: A Historical Anthropology of the Israeli Bat Mitzvah.” Jewish Culture and History 16, 3 (2015): 275-292.  
• “’He Had a Ceremony—I Had a Party’: Boys’ Initiation Rites and Girls’ Birthday Parties in Israeli Culture.” Modern Judaism 36, 3 (2016): 1-22. 
• “‘You Can’t Pick Your Family’: Celebrating Israeli Familism around the Seder Table.” Journal of Family History39, 3 (2014): 239-260.
• “Yom-Kippur and Jewish Public Culture in Israel.” Journal of Israeli History 32, 2 (2013): 175-196.
• “’Buy Local’ or ‘Buy Jewish’? Separatist Consumption in Interwar Palestine.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, 3 (2013): 469-489.
• “From ‘Great History’ to ‘Small History’: The Genesis of the Zionist Periodization.” Israel Studies 18, 1 (2013): 31–55.
• “Tel-Aviv’s Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective.” Tel-Aviv, the First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities, eds. Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012, pp. 34-59.
• “Rethinking Tradition: From Ontological Reality to Assigned Temporal Meaning.” European Journal of Sociology 52, 2 (2011): 313-340.
• “Of Other Cinematic Spaces: Urban Zionism in Early Hebrew Cinema.” Israel Studies Review 26, 2 (2011): 109-131.
• “‘A huge national assemblage’: Tel Aviv as a pilgrimage site in Purim celebrations (1920–1935).” Journal of Israeli History 28, 1 (2009): 1-20.