The Story
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 StoneAmerican University Product Description This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrantsociety behavior, and a sharp majorityminority 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. Israels 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 the Author Eliezer BenRafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at TelAviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, identities, and sociology of language, including Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer BenGurion (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 TelAviv 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).
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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 StoneAmerican University Product Description This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrantsociety behavior, and a sharp majorityminority 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. Israels 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 the Author Eliezer BenRafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at TelAviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, identities, and sociology of language, including Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer BenGurion (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 TelAviv 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).
