panic associated with the realization that more than 300,000 immigrants from the FSU are not halakhically Jewish. She also highlights the passionate fights between Haredi and National Religious rabbis over whether to prioritize the ‘national’ imperatives
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Naomi Chazan, Morad Elsana, Ian S. Lustick, Sam Lehman-Wilzig, Gideon Rahat, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Daphne Inbar, and Oren Barak
Israel Goes to the Polls
The Road to Elections for the Constituent Assembly, 1948–1949
Meir Chazan
conscientious person who fulfills a national mission; myriads of brothers and sisters who stand in battle should not be fenced in; they are not being allowed to read posters, as if they were savages; “this is thrusting a wedge between the army and the civilians
Liberal Whispers and Propaganda Fears
The American Jewish Committee and Israel’s Palestinian Minority, 1948–1966
Geoffrey P. Levin
large wave of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe ( Cohen 1972 ). Unlike many Jewish groups, the AJC characterized itself as ‘non-Zionist’, due to concerns that Jewish nationalism was not compatible with Jews’ American identity ( Ganin 2005 ). Yet in
Uzi Meshulam and the ‘Mishkan Ohalim’ Affair
The Influence of Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy
Motti Inbari
Egyptians and their sorcerers who joined the Jewish nation during the Exodus. The erev rav are now exposing their true identity, he argued, because the Last Days are fast approaching and the final selection is about to be made. The way to identify false
Osnat Roth-Cohen and Yehiel Limor
Advertising Research 36 ( 5 ): 21 – 35 . Elon , Amos . 2002 . The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743–1933 . New York : Macmillan . First , Anat , and Eli Avraham . 2009 . America in JeruSALEm: Globalization, National Identity
Moral Thresholds of Outrage
The March for Hrant Dink and New Ways of Mobilization in Turkey
Lorenzo D’Orsi
national identity, ethnic homogeneity, and official history and, as an Armenian living in Turkey, questioned the institutionalized historical denial that has characterized the Republic of Turkey after the 1915 Genocide. Like other intellectuals, he had been
First as Tragedy, Then as Teleology
The Politics/People Dichotomy in the Ethnography of Post-Yugoslav Nationalization
Stef Jansen
nationally homogeneous polities. Such particularly militant retrospective narratives passionately asserted the idea that, in Bringa’s words, “national identity [was] the only relevant identity and nationalism the only relevant discourse.” Crucially, and going
Perspectives from the Ground
Colonial Bureaucratic Violence, Identity, and Transitional Justice in Canada
Jaymelee J. Kim
another imposed colonial bureaucratic mechanism antithetical to Indigenous identity and needs. In conjunction with the TRC, seven national events were organized to engage the public and Indigenous community members regarding residential school histories
Violence and Identification
Everyday Ethnic Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Torsten Kolind
aspects of everyday life. And on the public and political levels, national identities have been promoted as the only salient ones. But when analyzing everyday identifications of the Muslims of Stolac another picture emerges, one that is less clear
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The Digital Age Opens Up New Terrains for Peace and Conflict Research
Josepha Ivanka Wessels
identities of adversaries can be perpetuated in cyberspace, even if these adversaries are inactive in the offline world. For example, YouTube provides a digital public space for Rhodesians to express their national identity, while Rhodesia as a nation