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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154726503321

Autore

Khazzoom Aziza

Titolo

Shifting ethnic boundaries and inequality in Israel : or, how the Polish peddler became a German intellectual / / Aziza Khazzoom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-8047-7957-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 344 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Studies in social inequality Shifting ethnic boundaries and inequality in Israel

Studies in social inequality

Disciplina

305.80095694

Soggetti

National characteristics, Israeli

Jews - Israel - Identity

Mizrahim - Israel

Ethnicity - Israel

Multiculturalism - Israel

Israel Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Some Historical Background -- Chapter Three. Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Ethnic Formation -- Chapter Four. Was Dichotomization Inevitable? -- Chapter Five. The Iraqi Paradox -- Chapter Six. How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual -- Chapter Seven. Cultural Capital -- Chapter Eight. Residential Segregation and Economic Isolation: The Moroccan Paradox -- Chapter Nine. Into the Next Generation -- Chapter Ten. Perspectives on Ethnic Formation -- Appendices -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolise scarce resources - good jobs or top educations - for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that racial and ethnic discrimination can also occur to preserve particular group identities. It



focuses on the early period of Israeli statehood to examine how the European Jewish founders treated Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants.