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Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns by Uzi Rebhun

Authors: Uzi Rebhun, Chaim Waxman
ISBN-13: 9781584653271, ISBN-10: 1584653272
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Uzi Rebhun

UZI REBHUN is Lecturer at The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. CHAIM I. WAXMAN is Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, and co-editor of Jews in America (UPNE, 1999).

Book Synopsis

Offers a complete sociological perspective of Jews and Jewish life in Israel from 1948 to the present.

	Introduction
Pt. I	Establishing the Framework for Contemporary Jewish Life in Israel
1	Major Trends in the Development of Israeli Jews: A Synthesis of the Last Century	3
2	Demography in Israel at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century	20
Pt. II	Immigration and Social Adaptation
3	Jewish Ethnicity in Israel: Symbolic or Real?	47
4	The Soviet Immigrant Community in Israel	81
5	Ethiopian Jews in Israel: A Part of the People or Apart from the People?	118
Pt. III	Social Transformation and Political Orientation
6	The Kibbutz's Transformation: Who Leads It and Where?	151
7	Elections and Voting Patterns	174
8	Women in Israeli Society	195
9	Religion in the Israeli Public Square	221
Pt. IV	Manifestations of Jewish Identity
10	Judaism in Israeli Culture	243
11	The Many Faces of Jewishness in Israel	265
12	The Israel Reform and Conservative Movements and the Market for Liberal Judaism	285
13	The Quest for Spirituality among Secular Israelis	315
Pt. V	Civil Commitment and Collective Memory
14	Civil-Military Relations in Israel at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century	331
15	The Cleavage between Jewish and Arab Israeli Citizens	345
16	The Sanctification of Space in Israel: Civil Religion and Folk Judaism	371
17	History, Memory, and Identity: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Israel	394
Pt. VI	Israel and Diaspora Jews
18	The Israelis and the Jewish Diaspora	421
19	The Emigration of Jewish Israelis	445
Pt. VII	Conclusion
20	Challenges for the Twenty-First Century	467
	List of Contributors	481
	Index	485