Israeli middle class. Gradually, the new Ashkenazi immigrants joined the veterans, attaining their social status. Thus, a rigid ethnic and intergenerational dichotomy was formed. In this commonly accepted dichotomous frame of reference, Mapai’s government
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The 1956 Strike of Middle-Class Professionals
A Socio-political Alliance with the Right
Avi Bareli and Uri Cohen
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 1–22 (22 total)
Brent E. Sasley
that can facilitate isolation in the ‘real world’. Another pattern, based on type of knowledge, is evident. In English-speaking countries, at least, most students who enroll in courses on Israel come to the class with little or no knowledge of the
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 100–108 (9 total)
Beyond Comparativism
Israel's Welfare History in a Non-European Comparative Perspective
Arie Krampf
emergence of the middle class as a social group and the strengthening of right-wing parties. If it was residual, one has to explain the consolidation of the social-democratic regime in the 1970s. Given that there is no shortage of research about this era
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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- 10–30 (21 total)
The Pedagogy of Song
Teaching Israel through Music
Daniel Stein Kokin
“Anu banu artzah livnot u-lehibanot bah” (We have come to the land to build and …) I typically open my “Settlement in Israeli History” class with the rousing, if repetitive, refrain of this classic Zionist song. Likely dating to the 1920s
Liberalism in Israel
Between the ‘Good Person’ and the ‘Bad Citizen’
Menachem Mautner
result, the processes of integration between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim in Israel have only partially succeeded, as is evidenced by socio-economic data. This has had an impact on the basis of support for liberalism in Israel, with lower-class Mizrahim
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 6–35 (30 total)
Relations between Development Towns and Kibbutzim
Sderot and Sha’ar Hanegev
Gigi Moti
and his parents? What is the connection between that history and his rejection? Moreover, why does he want to move to a place that refuses to accept him and threaten an appeal to the Supreme Court? I argue that the tension is rooted in aspects of class
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Research Article
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- 121–139 (19 total)
Hybridization and Purification
The Experiences of Mizrachi Middle-Class Adolescents in Israel
Guy Abutbul Selinger
In contrast to the view, expressed widely in public and in academic discourses, that ethnic categories are no longer significant in explaining Israeli social processes and that ethnic relations have become less hierarchical, this study demonstrates the continuing importance of ethnicity and hierarchical relations in Israeli society. Their importance is reflected in the social processes undergone by middle-class Mizrachi adolescents. Mizrachi families endow their adolescents with family capital—that is, social and cultural patterns—similar to that of middle-class Ashkenazi families. However, because these social and cultural patterns are identified as Ashkenazi, public discourses and practices signify for Mizrachi adolescents their ethnic identity and thus restore the blurred ethnic boundary. This signification is done through mechanisms of 'hybridization' and 'purification', as discussed in the article. These cultural mechanisms maintain the hierarchical relations between Mizrachi and Ashkenazi Jews within Israel's middle class.
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 122–139 (18 total)
The Bourgeois Construction of the Rural
An Israeli Case
Ze'ev Shavit
The article investigates the symbolic construction of the Galilee as a rural place, as portrayed by the websites of leisure resorts seeking urban middle-class customers. The article argues that the Galilee is constructed as a symbolic, post-rural place by them, and that this process expresses a change in the construction of rural place and place in general as well as collective identity in Jewish Israeli society. Data was obtained from marketing websites of 50 leisure resorts in the Galilee. Findings indicate that the post-rural Galilee is composed mainly of four symbolic universes: rural style and atmosphere, agriculture and country gourmet, the experience of nature, and authenticity of place. This construction of rural place represents the voice of the urban middle class in the dynamics of place and collective identity in Jewish Israeli society.
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Jun 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 98–119 (22 total)
Guest Editors' Introduction
Football and Society in Israel—a Story of Interdependence
Tamar Rapoport and Amir Ben Porat
Israel, where it has been played every weekend all over the country since before the establishment of the state. Football is not just a game that children and adults love to play and watch; it also involves individual, group, and collective identities, and local and national identification. Football reflects, and often accentuates, political and social conflicts that highlight ethno-national, class, political, and gender hierarchies and tensions in society. The game is largely dependent on the surrounding context(s) that determines its “relative autonomy,” which shapes its distinguished fandom culture(s) and practices (Rapoport 2016).
The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace by Yael S. Aronoff Joel Migdal
Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel by Beverly Mizrachi Shani Bar-On
Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty by Erica Weiss Ruth Linn and Renana Gal
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine 1931–2013 by Lev Luis Grinberg As'ad Ghanem
Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East by Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, and Khalil Shikaki Paul L. Scham
The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy: The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland by Yoav Peled Ian S. Lustick
Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and Difference by Esther Fuchs (ed.) Pnina Peri
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 144–163 (20 total)