PRESERVING THROUGH INNOVATING: NEO-PASHKEVILS AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARY WORK IN HAREDI ANTI-DRAFT PROTEST.
This study investigates the emergence of neo-pashkevils —visually and rhetorically modernized wall posters—within ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) campaigns opposing military conscription in Israel. While traditional pashkevils (wall posters) function as informal instruments of ideological enforcement and co...
| Published in: | Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 157 - 179 |
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May2026
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