The invention and decline of Israeliness : state, society, and the military / Baruch Kimmerling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimmerling, Baruch.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Israeli.

Jews--Israel--Identity.

Jews.

Religion and state--Israel.

Religion and state.

Israel--Social conditions--20th century.

Israel.

Israel--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950's is over, Baruch Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures. These seven groups, he contends, have been challenging one other for control over resource distribution and the identity of the polity. Kimmerling, one of the most prominent social scientists and political analysts of Israel today, relies on a large body of sociological work on the state, civil society, and ethnicity to present an overview of the construction and deconstruction of the secular-Zionist national identity. He shows how Israeliness is becoming a prefix for other identities as well as a legal and political concept of citizen rights granted by the state, though not necessarily equally to different segments of society.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Mythological-Historical Origins of the Israeli State: An Overview

2. Building an Immigrant Settler State

3. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness

4. The End of Hegemony and the Onset of Cultural Plurality

5. The Newcomers

6. The Cultural Code of Jewishness: Religion and Nationalism

7. The Code of Security: The Israeli Military-Cultural Complex

Conclusions

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kimmerling, Baruch. Invention and decline of Israeliness.

ISBN:

9780520939301

0520939301

9781597346863

1597346861

OCLC:

475929650