ABSTRACT
The substitution, following the creation of the State of Israel, of the term 'Israeli Culture' for that of 'Hebrew Culture', which had been the accepted one during the pre-State Yishuv period, expresses a transformation in the culture itself. Not only did the political and social institutions of cultural life change, but also the way of life and patterns of human relationships which find their expression in creativity. As a result, the understanding of the nature and function of culture, of spiritual life and of spiritual creation as a uniting and identifying process, likewise changed: these are no longer perceived as the central factor identifying one national society or people, while the society or the nation as a whole no longer seeks all its spiritual needs or the expression of all of the 'selves' of its component individuals within the framework of nationality.
