Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 16) (Volume 0)

Peled, Yoav,Shafir, Gershon

ISBN 10: 0521796725 / ISBN 13: 9780521796729

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 16) (Volume 0)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521796725
• ISBN 13: 9780521796729
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This penetrating and timely study by two well-known scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of Israel. The argument is set in its historical context as the authors trace Israel's development from the beginning of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the early 1880s to the Oslo accords in 1993, and finally to the recent Palestinian uprising. Against this background, they speculate on the idea of citizenship and what it means to be the citizen of a fragmented and ideologically divided society.

About the Author

Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914 (1989, 1996) and Immigrants and Nationalists (1995). He is the editor of The Citizenship Debates (1998). Yoav Peled is lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University. His book, Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia, was published in 1989 and he edited Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation-State (2000). Both authors have co-edited The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization (2000).