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Research paper thumbnail of Televised Agendas: How Global Funders Make Israeli TV More “Jewish”

Jewish Film & New Media, 2015

Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal issues ... more Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal issues of conflict. Rather than wait for the Israeli state to work toward solving this intractable problem, numerous private donors and foundations—primarily from the United States—have initiated their own large-scale endeavors in the realm of Israeli pop culture. This essay demonstrates how significant financial investments in Israeli television from the American-based Avi Chai Foundation—by far the biggest player in the realm of Israeli culture—and others have transformed the Israeli cultural landscape, bringing significantly more religious characters and Jewish content to Israeli viewers. I explore the ways in which religion and cultural production converge in this increasingly global era, as transnational NGOs and private foundations deploy the media and arts in order to effect social change.

Research paper thumbnail of The Buena Vista Baghdad Club: Negotiating Local, National, and Global Representations of Jewish Iraqi Musicians in Israel

Research paper thumbnail of Jews and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century

The Cambridge History of Judaism

Research paper thumbnail of Jews and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century: Israel and the Middle East

Research paper thumbnail of The Buena Vista Baghdad Club: Negotiating Local, National, and Global Representations of Jewish Iraqi Musicians in Israel

Research paper thumbnail of ''Music of Peace'' at a Time of War:  Middle Eastern Music Amid the Second Intifada"

Research paper thumbnail of Televised Agendas: How Global Funders Make Israeli TV for "Jewish"

Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal issues ... more Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal
issues of conflict. Rather than wait for the Israeli state to work toward solving this
intractable problem, numerous private donors and foundations—primarily from
the United States—have initiated their own large-scale endeavors in the realm of
Israeli pop culture. This essay demonstrates how significant financial investments in
Israeli television from the American-based Avi Chai Foundation—by far the biggest
player in the realm of Israeli culture—and others have transformed the Israeli cultural
landscape, bringing significantly more religious characters and Jewish content to
Israeli viewers. I explore the ways in which religion and cultural production converge
in this increasingly global era, as transnational NGOs and private foundations deploy
the media and arts in order to effect social change.

Research paper thumbnail of Televised Agendas: How Global Funders Make Israeli TV More “Jewish”

Jewish Film & New Media, 2015

Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal issues ... more Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal issues of conflict. Rather than wait for the Israeli state to work toward solving this intractable problem, numerous private donors and foundations—primarily from the United States—have initiated their own large-scale endeavors in the realm of Israeli pop culture. This essay demonstrates how significant financial investments in Israeli television from the American-based Avi Chai Foundation—by far the biggest player in the realm of Israeli culture—and others have transformed the Israeli cultural landscape, bringing significantly more religious characters and Jewish content to Israeli viewers. I explore the ways in which religion and cultural production converge in this increasingly global era, as transnational NGOs and private foundations deploy the media and arts in order to effect social change.

Research paper thumbnail of The Buena Vista Baghdad Club: Negotiating Local, National, and Global Representations of Jewish Iraqi Musicians in Israel

Research paper thumbnail of Jews and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century

The Cambridge History of Judaism

Research paper thumbnail of Jews and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century: Israel and the Middle East

Research paper thumbnail of The Buena Vista Baghdad Club: Negotiating Local, National, and Global Representations of Jewish Iraqi Musicians in Israel

Research paper thumbnail of ''Music of Peace'' at a Time of War:  Middle Eastern Music Amid the Second Intifada"

Research paper thumbnail of Televised Agendas: How Global Funders Make Israeli TV for "Jewish"

Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal issues ... more Israel’s secular-religious divide has long been seen as one of the country’s key internal
issues of conflict. Rather than wait for the Israeli state to work toward solving this
intractable problem, numerous private donors and foundations—primarily from
the United States—have initiated their own large-scale endeavors in the realm of
Israeli pop culture. This essay demonstrates how significant financial investments in
Israeli television from the American-based Avi Chai Foundation—by far the biggest
player in the realm of Israeli culture—and others have transformed the Israeli cultural
landscape, bringing significantly more religious characters and Jewish content to
Israeli viewers. I explore the ways in which religion and cultural production converge
in this increasingly global era, as transnational NGOs and private foundations deploy
the media and arts in order to effect social change.

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