The Israeli Druze Community In Transition

Author : Randa Khair Abbas,Deborah Court
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527567399

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The Israeli Druze Community in Transition by Randa Khair Abbas,Deborah Court Pdf

While there are books that describe the history and traditions of the Druze as an ethnic and religious group, this is the first and only academic book of its kind. It gives voice to the Israeli Druze, through in-depth interviews with 120 people, 60 young adults and 60 of their parents’ generation. How is this traditional group, bound together through the centuries by their secret religion and strong value system, dealing with modernization? What contradictions and continuity come to light in the stories of this people during a time of transition? Can their religion, and their very identity, survive the meeting with the modern, technological world? What resources do the young and the not-so-young bring to the task of preserving their community and helping it to flourish as the world changes around them? The people in this text answer these questions through the telling of their stories, in which they express their values, opinions, beliefs and aspirations. The book draws out theoretical, practical, religious and sociological implications from this analysis, in order to shed light on the challenges faced by other traditional societies meeting modernity.

Author : Kais M. Firro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491915

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The Druzes in the Jewish State by Kais M. Firro Pdf

Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. Overwhelmingly rural, they sought to safeguard their community's age-old ethnic independence by holding on to their traditional ethno-religious particularism. Ethnicity and ethnic issues, however, were ready tools for the Zionists in the pursuit of their policy aims vis-à-vis the state's Arab population. Central among these was the cooptation of part of the Druze elite in an obvious effort to alienate the Druzes from the other Arabs - creating "good" Arabs and "bad" Arabs served the Jewish state as a foil for its ongoing policy of dispossession and control. The author painstakingly documents the political, social and economic factors that ensured the "success" of these Zionist policies, but concludes that the fissured identity of Israel's Druzes today bespeaks a feeling of musiba, tragedy, within the community itself.

Author : Rôn Šaham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004154537

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Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World by Rôn Šaham Pdf

This collective volume deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: sharia, custom and statute. Covers a wide range of geographical areas, from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Iraq to the Maghrib -- Back cover.

Author : Nissim Dana
Publisher : Jerusalem ; Forest Grove, Or. : Turtledove Pub. ; Jerusalem : Israel Economist
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037355752

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The Druse, a Religious Community in Transition by Nissim Dana Pdf

Author : Randall S. Geller
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498541640

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Minorities in the Israeli Military, 1948–58 by Randall S. Geller Pdf

This study examines the attitudes and policies on all sides of the majority/minority divide in Israel during the state’s formative decade, and how the social, political, and strategic decisions made vis-à-vis the non-Jewish populations then continue to impact this unique Middle Eastern state today. While land, labor, and settlement policies, or the educational, legal, or political systems, could have been used to explore majority-minority relations in Israel between 1948-1958, this study does so through the prism of the army – in theory, the state’s most unifying social institution. The central questions investigated in this study are; how did the leadership of the Jewish majority balance its declared commitment to the state’s democratic ideals and the principle of equality on the one hand, and its commitment to creating a Jewish state and ensuring its security on the other? Was the army – charged with instilling Zionist patriotism in Jewish youth – prepared to absorb and integrate Arabs, who constituted the overwhelming majority of the non-Jewish minorities? Would the state’s minority groups be viewed as trustworthy and loyal enough to serve in the army? Furthermore, how would (potential) Arab military service impact the educational mission, and particularly the simultaneously transformative and integrative effort the army was charged with carrying out among Jews? While a specialized work in the fields of Israel and Middle Eastern Studies, this book should appeal to all students interested in majority/minority relations and the state-building process in newly-emerging democratic societies.

Author : Deborah Court,Randa Khair Abbas,Zaki Kamal,Riam Abu Much
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781527512702

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Social Justice in Multicultural Settings by Deborah Court,Randa Khair Abbas,Zaki Kamal,Riam Abu Much Pdf

This book presents insights into social justice issues through the work of educators in Israel, the US, the UK, Italy, Canada, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Each chapter provides local or global theoretical insights, and these combine to provide a rich international perspective. The book offers practical strategies for the classroom, methods of teaching social justice to future teachers in various curriculum areas, and knowledge for researchers and those working in higher education. The book is unusual in its combination of local and international perspectives, practical and theoretical wisdom, and its inclusion of a variety of voices. Readers will gain new insight into concepts like radical pedagogy, interculturalism, multiculturalism, failed citizenship and cultural identity.

Author : Deborah Court,Randa Khair Abbas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000593006

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Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry by Deborah Court,Randa Khair Abbas Pdf

Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry: New Perspectives on Method and Meaning explores the history, practice and particular benefits of conducting cultural research through a partnership of two researchers: one who is an insider to the culture under study and one who is an outsider. This book unpacks terminology around this type of research that has become outdated or cumbersome, looks at ethical issues and suggests specific methodological approaches. It also locates insider-outsider research, which is by its nature qualitative, in the wider research landscape. The authors specifically describe a researcher partnership, a relationship more intimate and fruitful than a team, much greater than the sum of its parts. Through their own nearly twenty-year research partnership and study of the Israeli Druze, the authors have developed mutual trust that has led to new depths of insight in understanding cultural codes and the meanings they embody. This, and the methods they use, will be illustrated through examples of some of their studies with the Israeli Druze. A highly accessible guide, this book will be of interest to ethnographers and other qualitative researchers, both graduate students and researchers of all levels of experience.

Author : Layish
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491199

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Marriage, Divorce and Succession in the Druze Family by Layish Pdf

Author : Vittorio Dan Segre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:70021515

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Israel by Vittorio Dan Segre Pdf

Author : Lisa Hajjar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520241940

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Courting Conflict by Lisa Hajjar Pdf

Annotation This is a meticulously documented examination of Israeli military courts in the West Bank and Gaza strip.

Author : Israel Drori
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804764407

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The Seam Line by Israel Drori Pdf

Many Arab communities in Israel's Galilee region are home to export-oriented textile factories, owned by multinational corporations, whose Jewish managers employ local Arab and Druse women as seamstresses and low-level work supervisors. Based on five years of ethnographic research, this book explores how these managers and workers negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work, integrating work culture with the norms and values of the host towns in order for employment arrangements to succeed. The entrance of industrial corporations into developing areas of the world, particularly in those industries employing primarily women, has generated tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial working life. In Israel these tensions are further complicated by the social and political dynamics of Arab-Jewish conflict, as well as the strictly demarcated roles of women and men in traditional Arab society. The resolution of these tensions on the shop floor shapes the social relations of production, the factories' management systems, family life in the industrial towns, and individual status and autonomy. The negotiation involves unequal power relations, manifested in a dual patriarchal structure: the Arab cultural practice of male domination of women as well as the formal management system of the textile concern, which dictates the nature of relationships between Jewish managers and Arab women workers. To meet their business goals, the managers must cooperate with the community that provides their workforce, adapting its norms and appropriating its worldview. The managers are constrained by the strict social rules of Arab and Druse society, and respond by attempting to harness and manipulate local family values to foster personal commitment, furthering production goals through paternal control. The consequence of this paternalism is a workforce that relates to the organization as family, identifies with its goals, and internalizes feelings of loyalty. However, the workforce also uses the plant as the arena for developing self-awareness and enhancing personal independence and status within the family. The seamstresses emerge as active shapers of the organizational culture, forcing the managers to adapt to and comply with their personal needs and perceptions of work.

Author : Bernard Reich,David H. Goldberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442271852

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Historical Dictionary of Israel by Bernard Reich,David H. Goldberg Pdf

Since its creation, the State of Israel has been a magnet for attention. A country beset by conflict in its region and faced with the need to integrate mainly Jewish immigrants of disparate backgrounds into a modern and advanced democratic state and society, Israel has preoccupied observers, scholars and journalists since its independence in May 1948. Although a Jewish state Israel is also a democratic state that guarantees the rights of all of its citizens, including its large Arab and Moslem minority, in law and in practice. Israel and its modern history and politics have been the subject of substantial and often highly partisan literature, being hotly and vigorously debated both at home and abroad. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Israel contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1100 cross-referenced entries onsignificant persons, places, events, government institutions, political parties, and battles, as well as entries on Israel’s economy, society, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the various diplomatic and political personalities, institutions, organizations, events, concepts, and documents that together define the political life of the Jewish state of Israel.

Author : Margie E. Lachman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0863779123

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Planning and Control Processes Across the Life Span by Margie E. Lachman Pdf

Author : Nissim Dana
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058125553

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The Druze in the Middle East by Nissim Dana Pdf

A general discussion of the Druze in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Druze relationship with the State of Israel.

Author : Gisela Trommsdorff,Wolfgang Friedlmeier,Hans-Joachim Kornadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023439370

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Japan in Transition by Gisela Trommsdorff,Wolfgang Friedlmeier,Hans-Joachim Kornadt Pdf