Jews in Israel :  contemporary social and cultural patterns / 
Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, editors. 
 - Hanover :  Lebanon, N.H. :  Brandeis University Press ;  Published by University Press of New England,  c2004. 
 - xv, 504 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Tauber Institute for the study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Major trends in the development of Israeli Jews: a synthesis of the last century /  Demography in Israel at the dawn of the twenty-first century /  Jewish ethnicity in Israel: symbolic or real? /  The soviet immigrant community in Israel /  Ethiopian Jews in Israel: a part of the people or apart from the people? /  The Kibbutz's transformation: who leads it and where? /  Elections and voting patterns /  Women in Israeli society /  Religion in the Israeli public square /  Judaism in Israeli culture /  The many faces of Jewishness in Israel /  The Israel reform and conservative movements and the market for liberal Judaism /  The quest for spirituality among secular Israelis /  Civil-military relations in Israel at the outset of the twenty-first century /  The cleavage between Jewish and Arab Israeli citizens /  The sanctification of space in Israel: civil religion and folk Judaism /  History, memory, and identity: perceptions of the Holocaust in Israel /  The Israelis and the Jewish Diaspora /  The emigration of Jewish Israelis /  Challenges for the twenty-first century /  Uzi Rebhun --  Sergio DellaPergola --  Sammy Smooha --  Elazar Leshem,  Moshe Sicron --  Steven Kaplan,  Hagar Salamon --  Eliezer Ben-Rafael,  Menachem Topel --  Asher Arian --  Hanna Herzog --  Chaim I. Waxman --  Eliezer Schweid --  Shlomit Levy ... [et al.] --  Ephraim Tabory --  Elan Ezrachi --  Gabriel Ben-Dor,  Ami Pedahzur --  Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar,  Ze'ev Shavit --  Yoram Bilu --  Dalia Ofer --  Gabriel Sheffer --  Steven Gold --  Uzi Rebhun,  Chaim I. Waxman.  PART I: ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE IN ISRAEL --  PART II: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ADAPTATION --  PART III: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL ORIENTATION --  PART IV: MANIFESTATIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY --  PART V: CIVIL COMMITMENT AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY --  PART IV: ISRAEL AND DIASPORA JEWS --  PART VII: CONCLUSION -- 
<br/><br/> Systematically explores the challenges and contradictions of Israel as a modern, heterogeneous society. Focusing on the behaviors of people, rather than institutions and organizations, its approach is largely interdisciplinary, with an overiding sociological perspective. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1584653272 9781584653271 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003018716 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA3-X3540 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews--Social conditions.--Israel<br/>Immigrants--Social conditions.--Israel<br/>Social integration--Israel.<br/>Joden.<br/>Sociale situatie.<br/>Bevolkingsontwikkeling.<br/>Politieke situatie.<br/>Soziale Situation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Israel--Social conditions.<br/>Israel--Civilization.<br/>Juden.<br/>Israel.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS126.5  / .J43 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>956.9405