Multiculturalism In Israel

Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Yochanan Peres
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047407539

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Is Israel One? by Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Yochanan Peres Pdf

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. Is Israel One?' was selected Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006.

Author : Adia Mendelson-Maoz
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612493640

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Multiculturalism in Israel by Adia Mendelson-Maoz Pdf

By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature. Through comparative discussion of the literatures of Palestinian citizens of Israel, of Mizrahim, of migrants from the former Soviet Union, and of Ethiopian-Israelis, the author demonstrates an unexpected richness and diversity in the Israeli literary scene, a reality very different from the monocultural image that Zionism aspired to create. Drawing on a wide body of social and literary theory, Mendelson-Maoz compares and contrasts the literatures of the four communities she profiles. In her discussion of the literature of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, she presents the question of language and translation, and she provides three case studies of particular authors and their reception. Her study of Mizrahi literature adopts a chronological approach, starting in the 1950s and proceeding toward contemporary Mizrahi writing, while discussing questions of authenticity and self-determination. The discussion of Israeli literature written by immigrants from the former Soviet Union focuses both on authors who write Israeli literature in Russian and of Russian immigrants writing in Hebrew. The final section of the book provides a valuable new discussion of the work of Ethiopian-Israeli writers, a group whose contributions have seldom been previously acknowledged. The picture that emerges from this groundbreaking book replaces the traditional, homogeneous historical narrative of Israeli literature with a diversity of voices, a multiplicity of origins, and a wide range of different perspectives. In doing so, it will provoke researchers in a wide range of cultural fields to look at the rich traditions that underlie it in new and fresh ways.

Author : Rosemarie Mielke,Majid Al-Haj
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782382126

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Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities by Rosemarie Mielke,Majid Al-Haj Pdf

Conflicts between different racial, ethnic, national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality, in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups. Even societies that had been successful in dealing with external conflicts and making the transition from war to peace have realized that this does not automatically resolve internal conflicts. On the contrary, the resolution of external conflicts may even sharpen the internal ones. This volume, a joint publication of the University of Haifa and the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) at the University of Hamburg, addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and, at the same time, how to build a shared civility among their different national, ethnic, religious and social groups.

Author : René Provost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0190203609

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Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging by René Provost Pdf

Provost argues that the intersection between religion, nationalism, and other vectors of difference in both Canada and Israel offers a revealing laboratory in which to examine multiculturalism in particular and the governance of diversity in general. For several decades, 'culture' played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition. More recently, religion seems to have re-emerged as the new central challenge facing Western liberal societies' conception of multiculturalism.

Author : Abraham Sagi,Avi Sagi,Ohad Nachtomy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Multiculturalism
ISBN : 1934843490

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The Multicultural Challenge in Israel by Abraham Sagi,Avi Sagi,Ohad Nachtomy Pdf

In the last three decades, Israel has been undergoing a dramatic revolution: the hegemonic secular Zionist ethos that founded it is cracking, and various sub-groups seek to realize their specific identity in the public sphere. This text is one of the first attempts to examine various aspects of the current multicultural transformation of Israeli society.

Author : Michael Karayanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108485463

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A Multicultural Entrapment by Michael Karayanni Pdf

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

Author : Y. Shalom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403983619

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Educating Israel by Y. Shalom Pdf

This is a comparative ethnography of five Israeli schools that use state-of-the-art educational approaches to help change Israel's conflicted society. It gives an important glimpse of individuals and institutions that bravely operate as social and educational entrepreneurs, striving to change Israeli society.

Author : Sander Gilman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135208196

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Multiculturalism and the Jews by Sander Gilman Pdf

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective? Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's multicultural Europe? What is a multicultural ethnic? Other chapters look at specific figures in Jewish cultural history – Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Israel Zangwill, Philip Roth, the hermaphrodite N.O. Body (aka Karl Baer, raised as Martha Baer) – to explore issues within Jewish identity. Throughout, Gilman pays keen attention to the ways in which contemporary literature – Chabon, Ozick, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngart – taking the idea of Jewishness and multiculturalism into new arenas.

Author : Zvi November
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Culture conflict
ISBN : 1425169996

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Israel in Reality by Zvi November Pdf

... an attempt to explain the inherent contradictions of a complex nation-state whose five or more component populations disagree on almost every issues.

Author : Carlton Munson,B Harold Chetkow-Yanoov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317790495

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Celebrating Diversity by Carlton Munson,B Harold Chetkow-Yanoov Pdf

Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society, offers pragmatic ways to replace conflictive behaviors between diverse peoples with coexistence alternatives. Coexistence-partnership values and skills help us to outgrow ways of the past--competition, suspicion, manipulation, isolation, victimization. These skills enhance our own lives as well as those of future generations. In Celebrating Diversity, author Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov asserts that the increasing religious-ethnic-linguistic pluralisms of the twentieth century requires that we cease lumping people different from ourselves into an “other” category. He identifies classical elements of a coexistence model and suggests various strategies and tactics for implementing coexistence in modern societies. Among the many insights you will find are: the definition of coexistence an analysis of past patterns of majority-minority group relations, such as segregation, tolerance, and integration models of majority-minority relations, participation, and coexistence appropriate for the twenty-first century illustrations of the coexistence model through examples of places where it is flourishing action steps for leaders and citizens to put the idea of coexistence into practice a range of research findings that help us determine what is effective in promoting coexistence In the pages of Celebrating Diversity, you can learn social skills for preventing conflict escalation, for finding areas of common interest, and for working cooperatively. As more of us become informed about alternatives to violence, hopefully we can find ways to bring peace to areas of unrest, such as Algeria, Ireland, Israel, Nigeria, Rwanda, Serbia, or the former Soviet Union.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Applied linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121969393

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Linguistic Landscape and Multiculturalism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Multiculturalism
ISBN : LCCN:2003547094

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Women, Religion, and Multiculturalism in Israel by Ruth Halperin-Kaddari Pdf

Author : Menachem Mautner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199600564

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Law and the Culture of Israel by Menachem Mautner Pdf

For half a century a fierce struggle to shape Israeli culture has been waged in its legal system. Should Israel be a secular, liberal state, or governed by traditional Jewish law and culture? In this book Menachem Mautner tells the fascinating story of the political struggles to control Israeli law, and through it the culture of Israel itself.

Author : Yaakov Kop,Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815702264

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Sticking Together by Yaakov Kop,Robert E. Litan Pdf

Founded in 1948 amid bloodshed and the near devastation of the Jewish people after the Holocaust, modern Israel is something of a miracle. In a little more than fifty years of existence, the country has evolved into a significant economic and military power, both feared and resented by its Arab neighbors in the volatile Middle East. In Sticking Together, an Israeli and an American examine the major challenges confronting Israel within its own borders. These challenges —well known to Israelis but relatively little known elsewhere —have emerged in part out of the country's experience with large-scale immigration. Like the United States, Canada, and Australia, Israel has tried to melt different peoples into a cohesive nation. While its citizens have forged common bonds under circumstances of adversity — particularly constant threats from Palestinians and from neighboring Arab countries — the fabric of Israeli society is torn by four major schisms: between immigrants and native Israeli; between Jews and Arabs; between secular and religious Jews; and between Jews of different cultural and national backgrounds (such as Ashkenzim and Sephardim). Gradually, and often with great difficulty, Israelis have learned to accommodate and respect the deep differences among its population. To borrow a culinary analogy, Israeli society, much like American society, has become more "salad bowl" than "melting pot." Sticking Together examines the many challenges confronting Israel's experience with pluralism, and in the process, draws lessons that might prove useful to other societies that struggle to accommodate the needs of highly diverse populations.

Author : Ruth Kark,Noam Perry
Publisher : Israel Academic Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1885881487

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Ethnographic Museums in Israel by Ruth Kark,Noam Perry Pdf

Ethnographic Museums in Israel focuses on a new dimension of the Israeli museological landscape. Since the 1970s, Jewish ethnic groups that were dissatisfied with the way large-scale museums had displayed (or ignored) their heritage, began to erect museums dedicated to their own cultures. These include museums dedicated exclusively to the cultural heritages of the Jews of Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen, depicting the "glorious past" of these ethnic groups. In parallel, Arab (including Bedouin), Druze, and Circassian minorities of Israel and Palestinians began creating museums that challenge the narrative portrayed in the museums of Jewish settlement and highlight their own cultural heritage. Taken as a whole, these museums and heritage centers portray the ethnic diversity of Israeli society and preserve this diverse cultural heritage for future generations.