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Crisis and Transformation

The Kibbutz at Century's End

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael

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Crisis and Transformation

The Kibbutz at Century's End

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael

This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations. It centers on the contradictions endemic to kibbutz identity. Ben-Rafael shows how the crisis brought together a general pro-change Zeitgeist with the interests of the kibbutz's stronger social segments and individuals to produce widespread changes and the fragmentation of kibbutz reality as a whole. The book's findings are based on a large-scale research investigation (1991-1994) headed up by Ben-Rafael that included twenty research studies and involved the participation of researchers from diverse social-science disciplines. The book also provides a statistical abstract and a comprehensive kibbutz bibliography.

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State University of New York Press

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079149635X

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Building a Diaspora

Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Mikhail Lyubansky,Olaf Gluckner,Paul Harris,Yael Israel,Willy Jasper,Julius Schoeps

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Building a Diaspora

Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Mikhail Lyubansky,Olaf Gluckner,Paul Harris,Yael Israel,Willy Jasper,Julius Schoeps

The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their “good reasons” to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.

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384

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BRILL

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9047418530

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9789047418535

Is Israel One?

Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Yochanan Peres

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Is Israel One?

Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Yochanan Peres

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.

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347

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9047407539

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9789047407539

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Miriam Ben-Rafael

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Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Miriam Ben-Rafael

This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism – each one conveying its own distinct linguistic markers: international codes, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. Eliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael study the configurations of these influences, which they conceptualize as multiple globalization, in the LLs of downtowns, residential quarters, and marginal neighborhoods of a number of world-cities. They ask how far worldwide codes of communication gain preeminence, national languages are marginalized and ethnic vernaculars impactful. They conclude by suggesting a paradigm of multiple globalizations.

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237

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9004385134

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9789004385139

Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Stephen Sharot

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Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Stephen Sharot

This book is the first major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. Although much has been written about the various distinctions between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, this volume argues for a more sophisticated approach than the rather crude divisions that have formed the basis of most works on the subject. The authors include categories largely overlooked in sociological studies on Israel such as middle class Israelis from Asia and Africa, and working-class Israelis from Europe. The data acquired from this rich ethnic mix leads to the analysis of a wide range of theoretical issues that casts fresh light on social cleavages within Israel in particular and society in general.

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299

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Cambridge University Press

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0521392292

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9780521392297

Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Olaf Glöckner,Yitzhak Sternberg

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Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Olaf Glöckner,Yitzhak Sternberg

Since their recent dispersion from the former Soviet Union, Russian-speaking Jews (RSJ) have become the vast majority of Germany’s longstanding Jewry. An entity marked by permeable boundaries, they show a solidarity and commitment to world Jewry, including Israel, but feeble identification with their hosts. The identification with the larger Jewish community leads to a wide consensus concerning the importance of offering Jewish education to the young. The study presented here explores the influence of the RSJ community, their relationship with German speaking Jews, and the ways in which the RSJ identification with world Jewry influences Jewish education opportunities for the young. Utilizing surveys of the largest Jewish communities in Germany, interviews of leading public figures, and a comprehensive overview of the Jewish educational framework available in Germany, this book seeks to present a description and analysis of the Jewish population in Germany including its attitudes, activities, expectations, and identify formulations.

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342

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900421478X

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9789004214781

Confronting Allosemitism in Europe

The Case of Belgian Jews

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael

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Confronting Allosemitism in Europe

The Case of Belgian Jews

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Only a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the cases investigated, the Belgian Jewry is one of the most interesting. It is both versatile and representative, revealing essential components of the general experience of European Jews today. Conceptual considerations pave the way to the study of their plight that has been, by any criterion, anything but “usual". Belgian Jews, it appears, are “like” many other Jewries in Europe but “a little more”. They highlight the question: is allosemitism at all surmountable?

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9004274065

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Crisis and Transformation

The Kibbutz at Century's End

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael

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The Kibbutz at Century's End

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Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Stephen Sharot

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Book's by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Crisis and Transformation

Crisis and Transformation

Building a Diaspora

Building a Diaspora

Is Israel One?

Is Israel One?

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today

Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today

Confronting Allosemitism in Europe

Confronting Allosemitism in Europe

Crisis and Transformation

Crisis and Transformation

Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society

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