Culture and Society in Contemporary Israel
Author: Bet ha-sefer le-talmide ḥu. l. ʻa. sh. Sh. Roṭberg
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13:
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Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
Author: Guy Ben-Porat
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-29
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 1000591190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Israel, accounting for changes, developments and contemporary debates. The different chapters offer both a historical background and an updated analysis of politics, economy, society and culture. Across five sections, a multidisciplinary group of experts, including sociologists, political scientists, historians and social scientists, engage in a wide variety of topics through different perspectives and insights. The book opens with a historical section outlining the formation of Israel and Jewish nationalism. The second section examines contemporary institutions in Israel, their developments and the contemporary challenges they face in light of social, economic, political and cultural changes. The third section explores geopolitics and Israel’s foreign relations, exploring conflicts, alliances and foreign policy with neighbors and powers. The fourth section engages with Israel’s internal divisions and schisms, highlighting questions of identity and inequality while also outlining processes of integration and marginalization between groups. The final section explores matters of culture, through the social and demographic shifts in contemporary music, poetry and cuisine, along with the struggles for inclusion and the impact of globalization on Israeli culture. The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel is designed for academics along with undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on Israel, Israeli politics, and culture and society in modern Israel.
Jews in Israel
Author: Uzi Rebhun
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781584653271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a complete sociological perspective of Jews and Jewish life in Israel from 1948 to the present.
Taking Space Seriously
Author: Issachar Rosen-Zvi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1351896415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space. By means of case studies involving three social groups within Israel's multicultural society - the Sephardim, the Bedouin-Arab minority and the ultra-Orthodox community of Jerusalem - the different roles played by political space in legal analysis are revealed and analyzed. Issachar Rosen-Zvi then unearths the unifying logic underlying the disparate legal treatment of political space, brought to light by the case studies. The law treats political space differently depending on the social group involved, an attitude that, the author argues, can be traced back to early Zionist thinking. He concludes that a reform of local government law is required, to correct the segregated system of political space and the separate and unequal distribution of political power and economic resources that accompany it.
Communal Webs
Author: Tamar Katriel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1438408471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel's ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices. The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer's stance in studying one's own culture.
Liberalization and Culture in Contemporary Israel
Author: Ari Ofengenden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1498570364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel’s integration into global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television, from the past 30 years to conceptualize the changes in Israel’s culture. He analyzes the central phenomena associated with Israel’s integration into the global economy including: the demise of realism and the rise of commercial culture, the production of film, television, and novels for western audiences, and the critiques of capitalism in media. Ofengenden also explores the refiguring national identity through critique of masculinity. The book also discusses the affect globalization and marketization has had on modern narratives of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society
Author: Tali Hayosh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-17
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1000044483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding an inclusive, yet multi- layered perspective on leisure cultures in dynamic hegemonic, subcultural, and countercultural communities, this volume investigates the disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of leisure studies in the age of mass migration, nationalism, cultural wars, and conflicted societies in Israel. Israeli society has struggled with complicated geopolitical, intercultural, economic, and security conditions since the establishment of the State of Israel. Consequently, the emergent leisure cultures in Israel are vibrant, diversified, exuberant, and multifaceted, oscillating between Western and Middle Eastern tendencies. The chapters in this edited volume reflect dramatic influences of globalization on Israeli traditions, on one hand, and emergent local practices that reflect a communal quest of originality and authenticity, on the other hand. This book opens up a critical perspective on the tension between contested leisure cultures that are interconnected with spatial and temporal changes and interchanges. Examining leisure as a part of social, interethnic, physical, gendered, and sexual changes, the volume is a key text for scholars and students interested in leisure culture, Israeli society, education, cultural and media studies, and the Middle East.
Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics, and Culture
Author: Ian S. Lustick
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1438411464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics, and Culture is the second volume in a series devoted to imaginative and critical consideration of recent books on Israel. It is a forum allowing some of the most insightful students of Israeli affairs, both in Israel and in the United States, to examine trends in Israeli literature and in scholarship pertaining to all aspects of Israeli life. Each contributor approaches Israel from a different angle, offering anthropological, religious, political, literary, and historical perspectives. Topics attracting particular attention in this volume include the psychological reactions of Israelis who emigrate from their country and the portrayal of the emigrant in Israeli literature; human rights; the role and content of the Jewish fundamentalist movement in Israel; changing relations to the Palestinian leadership in the occupied terrorists; the emerging issue of Israel as a binational society; psychoanalytic and political motifs in contemporary Israeli fiction; and the controversial findings of Israel's newest wave of "revisionist" historians.
Books on Israel: Critical essays on Israeli society, politics, and culture
Author: Ian Lustick
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespair and Deliverance
Author: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 079149618X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines the varieties of religious and secular salvation that have recently appeared in Israel as evidence for Israelis' willingness to embrace private salvation in the face of immense cultural upheavals. Drawing on interviews, field observations, clinical data, and media reports collected over ten years, he surveys four roads to private salvation: the return to Judaism, new religions (sects or cults), psychotherapy movements such as est, and occultism. These dramatic forms of conversion are unique to Israeli society within the last decade, and Beit-Hallahmi provides a social history and social psychology of this transformation.
