Across the Cultural Divide: Immigrant Oriental Jewish Children Meet Israeli Folks












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            * Shai Burstyn
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            Abstrakt

            Many songs created in pre-State Israel incorporated certain Oriental elements, but their o
            slant, like that of other contemporaneous local cultural products, was largely Occidental.
            demographic change caused by a massive immigration of Jews from Middle Eastern and North A

            to the new state created enormous pressure to absorb the newcomers both physically and cul
            ensuing melting pot policy declared by the young state as its supreme national task proved
            This failure had many reasons, not least of them the condescending attitude of the absorbi

            and its inability to fathom the sociocultural processes involved in such a colossal nation
            Against this background, I examine in this article the encounter of immigrant Oriental chi

            Israeli folksong, mainly from the perspective of musical perception and cultural condition
            1930s and 1940s, ingrained musical perceptual habits made European-oriented audiences inse
            into the newly composed modal, mildly Oriental songs they used to sing. In the 1950s, howe

            perceptual habits of immigrant Oriental children hindered them from embracing Israeli folk
            mainly by composers of Eastern European origin.


            Klíčová slova
            Israeli folksong; immigration; melting pot; cross-cultural music perception


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