04737nam 2201033 450 991078037800332120230616104655.09780520939301(electronic book)9780520229686(hardback)9780520246720(paperback)0-520-93930-11-59734-686-110.1525/9780520939301(CKB)111087027178594(EBL)224029(OCoLC)475929650(SSID)ssj0000183204(PQKBManifestationID)11156138(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183204(PQKBWorkID)10195332(PQKB)10039561(MiAaPQ)EBC224029(DE-B1597)519760(OCoLC)52999567(DE-B1597)9780520939301(Au-PeEL)EBL224029(CaPaEBR)ebr10048992(EXLCZ)9911108702717859420001120d2001 uy 0engurcnu---unuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe invention and decline of Israeliness state, society, and the military /Baruch KimmerlingBerkeley University of California Pressc20011 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Kimmerling, Baruch. Invention and decline of Israeliness. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520229681 (DLC) 00067238 (OCoLC)45505913 0-520-24672-1 0-520-22968-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. The Mythological-Historical Origins of the Israeli State: An Overview --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 --IndexThis 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 1950's 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.National characteristics, IsraeliJewsIsraelIdentityReligion and stateIsraelIsraelSocial conditions20th centuryIsraelEthnic relations20th century.citizen rights.cross cultural.cultural history.demographic study.ethnicities.historians.israel.israeli military.israeli society.israeli state.judaism.middle east.modern history.multicultural society.national identity.nationalism.nonfiction.political analysts.political science.political.resource distribution.secular zionists.social scientists.social studies.sociological study.sociologists.thought provoking.National characteristics, Israeli.JewsIdentity.Religion and state306/.095694Kimmerling Baruch540111MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780378003321The invention and decline of Israeliness3822227UNINA