Is Israel One?: Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded (Jewish Identities in a Changing World, V. 5) - Hardcover

Ben-Rafael, Eliezer; Peres, Yochanan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004143947 ISBN 13: 9789004143944

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2005

Synopsis

This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a sharp majority–minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations of ancestral symbols which permeate the dynamics of the confrontations of the dominant culture and numerous parties, all contesting its exigencies. Israel's conflicts revolve around this issue, forming a unique dynamic of multiple interacting forces of convergence and divergence. This case raises several major questions about the sociology of multiculturalism.

About this title

About the Author:

Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, identities, and sociology of language, including Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion (Brill Academic Publishers, 2002) and Identity and Social Division (Clarendon, 1994).

Yochanan Peres, Ph.D. (1968) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, public opinion, survey analysis, and sociology of family, including Between Consent and Dissent: Democracy and Peace in the Israeli Mind (with Ephraim Yaar, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).

Review:

"Is Israel One? is the most detailed analysis yet of the growing complexity of Israeli society...Clearly such a wealth of information takes its place as an important reference source for scholars studying Israeli society."
- Robert Stone
American University

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9004143947
• ISBN 13: 9789004143944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 331