Review of Constructing Ethnic Identities: Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism by Rachel Sharaby

In Constructing Ethnic Identities: Immigration, Festivals and Syncretism, Rachel Sharaby offers a meticulous examination of the processes through which immigrant Jewish communities in Israel that are perceived as minorities reconstruct their traditions and folklore.In doing so, they aim to assert their ethnic identities and integrate into mainstream Israeli society in an attempt to move toward its center.The book documents ethnic political activism in Israel since the 1960s