Becoming Hebrew : the creation of a Jewish national culture in Ottoman Palestine / Arieh Bruce Saposnik.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-303) and index.

Introduction: to become a nation of "Jewish culture" -- Babels and assemblies: Zionism in the demographic and cultural patchwork of Palestine -- The Uganda affair: soils for national culture -- A mother tongue in the fatherland: transforming a Jewish community into a Hebrew yishuv -- New immigrants, rival vanguards -- Beauty out of Zion?: Zions above and Zions below -- "Halbasien" in Asia: East meets West in Zionist culture -- Bounding the nation: ethnic selves and national others in yishuv culture -- "The Jew has died, the Hebrew has been born": making and locating cultural traditions -- Language wars and other wars -- Conclusion.