基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures, presenting an overviews of the construction and deconstruction of the secular-Zionist national identity.
Full Description
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 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
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Mythological-Historical Origins of the Israeli State 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
