Abstract
Abstract This study examines the creation and consumption of indigenous culture in Israel in its first 25 years of statehood, from 1948 to 1973. Focusing on the theater, some of the economic, political, and cultural constraints affecting theater-making and theater-going are analyzed. The study shows that the repertoire of the Israeli theater consists for the most part of non-Israeli (foreign) plays which are translated and performed in Hebrew. Analysis of audience reaction shows that there is no preferential attitude toward home-made versus imported culture. The conflict of the theater (and other media) between creating national culture and importing foreign (primarily Western) culture is examined. The study shows that the imbalance between indigenous and imported culture in Israel is also characteristic of other small and new nations. It suggests that this imbalance is a result of the conflict between the homogenizing orientations, inherent in the process of cultural modernization, and the search of new nations for cultural identity.
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