商品簡介
In a era which is increasingly coming to acknowledge plurality, Israel stands out as a region of astonishing diversity, with many seemingly disparate groups defining identity, commonality and difference amongst themselves. Ben Rafael and Peres work from their extensive survey of 1999-2001 of secular middle-class Jews of Ashkenazi descent, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East, recent immigrants from the former USSR, the ultra-orthodox, West Bank settlers, Christian and Muslim Arabs, Druze, and foreign workers. They find that class does not seem to figure as much in Israeli nationalism than in that of other countries, that identity is a complex element of Israeli life, and that often one's origins elsewhere in the world determine one's community and one's place in Israeli society, creating a very elaborate sociocultural framework. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, identities, and sociology of language, including Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion (Brill, 2002) and Identity and Social Division (Clarendon, 1994).Yochanan Peres, Ph.D. (1968) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, public opinion, survey analysis, and sociology of family, including Between Consent and Dissent: Democracy and Peace in the Israeli Mind (with Ephraim Yaar, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
