Israel Studies Roundtable Lunch with Prof. Hizky Shoham: Toward a Shared Folkloric Civil Sphere in Israel?

This talk develops the idea of a ?Folkloric Civil Sphere?: an everyday arena in which Jewish-Arab solidarity can emerge through shared conventions of language, food, music, leisure, and public life. Rather than overcoming ethnonational differences, it asks how existing cultural symbols and practices might be transformed from below to foster cross-ethnic solidarity in Israel. Prof. Hizky Shoh...