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The invention and decline of Israeliness : state, society, and the military

Author: Baruch Kimmerling
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Series: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the nation of Israel in terms of its origin as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multicultural society. Arguing that the monocultural 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  Read more...
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Named Person: François Tristan L'Hermite
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Baruch Kimmerling
ISBN: 0520229681 9780520229686
OCLC Number: 45505913
Description: x, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Mythological-historical origins of the Israeli State --
Building an immigrant settler state --
Invention and decline of Israeliness --
End of hegemony and the onset of cultural plurality --
Newcomers --
Cultural code of Jewishness --
Code of security.
Series Title: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Responsibility: Baruch Kimmerling.
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"This book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the nation of Israel in terms of its origin as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multicultural society. Arguing that the monocultural 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 another for control over resource distribution and the identity of the polity. He posits that six of these segments of the population, excluding Arabs, have bonded together under the umbrella of two ambiguous, but powerfully interlinked, metacultural codes: Jewishness and militarism. Kimmerling calls this phenomenon a "military-cultural complex," in which security and other social problems become highly intermingled." "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. Provocative and controversial, The Invention and Decline of Israeliness will challenge even the most informed reader's knowledge of Israel and its history, culture and regime."--Jacket.

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