contemporary social and cultural patterns Rebhun, Uzi. Waxman, Chaim Isaac. text bibliography nhu Hanover Lebanon, N.H Brandeis University Press Published by University Press of New England c2004 2004 monographic eng

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xv, 504 p. ; 23 cm. 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. PART I: ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE IN ISRAEL -- Major trends in the development of Israeli Jews: a synthesis of the last century / Uzi Rebhun -- Demography in Israel at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Sergio DellaPergola -- PART II: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ADAPTATION -- Jewish ethnicity in Israel: symbolic or real? / Sammy Smooha -- The soviet immigrant community in Israel / Elazar Leshem, Moshe Sicron -- Ethiopian Jews in Israel: a part of the people or apart from the people? / Steven Kaplan, Hagar Salamon -- PART III: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL ORIENTATION -- The Kibbutz's transformation: who leads it and where? / Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Menachem Topel -- Elections and voting patterns / Asher Arian -- Women in Israeli society / Hanna Herzog -- Religion in the Israeli public square / Chaim I. Waxman -- PART IV: MANIFESTATIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY -- Judaism in Israeli culture / Eliezer Schweid -- The many faces of Jewishness in Israel / Shlomit Levy ... [et al.] -- The Israel reform and conservative movements and the market for liberal Judaism / Ephraim Tabory -- The quest for spirituality among secular Israelis / Elan Ezrachi -- PART V: CIVIL COMMITMENT AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- Civil-military relations in Israel at the outset of the twenty-first century / Gabriel Ben-Dor, Ami Pedahzur -- The cleavage between Jewish and Arab Israeli citizens / Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Ze'ev Shavit -- The sanctification of space in Israel: civil religion and folk Judaism / Yoram Bilu -- History, memory, and identity: perceptions of the Holocaust in Israel / Dalia Ofer -- PART IV: ISRAEL AND DIASPORA JEWS -- The Israelis and the Jewish Diaspora / Gabriel Sheffer -- The emigration of Jewish Israelis / Steven Gold -- PART VII: CONCLUSION -- Challenges for the twenty-first century / Uzi Rebhun, Chaim I. Waxman. Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, editors. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-is--- Israel Social conditions Jews Israel Social conditions Immigrants Israel Social conditions Social integration Israel Israel Civilization Joden Sociale situatie Bevolkingsontwikkeling Politieke situatie Soziale Situation Juden Israel DS126.5 .J43 2004 956.9405 71.10 Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; Lebanon, N.H. : Published by University Press of New England, c2004 (OCoLC)607019713 1584653272 9781584653271 2003018716 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003018716.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003018716.html DLC 030822 20230410105233.0 94934