TY - BOOK AU - Rebhun,Uzi AU - Waxman,Chaim Isaac TI - Jews in Israel: contemporary social and cultural patterns SN - 1584653272 AV - DS126.5 .J43 2004 U1 - 956.9405 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Hanover, Lebanon, N.H. PB - Brandeis University Press, Published by University Press of New England KW - Jews KW - Israel KW - Social conditions KW - Immigrants KW - Social integration KW - Joden KW - gtt KW - Sociale situatie KW - Bevolkingsontwikkeling KW - Politieke situatie KW - Soziale Situation KW - swd KW - Civilization KW - Juden N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003018716.html ER -