Invention and Decline of Israeliness State, Society, and the Military

Name: Invention and Decline of Israeliness State, Society, and the Military
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ISBN: 9780520246720

ISBN-10: 0520246721

ISBN-13: 9780520246720

Edition: 2001

Authors: Baruch Kimmerling

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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 1950s 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…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Baruch Kimmerling is a George S. Wise Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous books in English and Hebrew, including The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times (1985) and, with Joel S. Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People (1993).



Acknowledgments


Introduction


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


Building an Immigrant Settler State


The Invention and Decline of Israeliness


The End of Hegemony and the Onset of Cultural Plurality


The Newcomers


The Cultural Code of Jewishness: Religion and Nationalism


The Code of Security: The Israeli Military-Cultural Complex


Conclusions


Works Cited