The Invention and Decline of Israeliness State, Society, Land the Militaryy
- List Price: $55.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of California Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/2001
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 each other for control over resource distribution and the identity of the polity.
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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.
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