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Is Israel one? : religion, nationalism, and multiculturalism confounded /

This book delves into Israeli society--an emblematic example of multiculturalism--where internal divides emerge from value systems relating contrastingly to religion, in a context of globalization, immigrant-society behavior, and a deep majority-minority division.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ben Rafael, Eliezer
Other Authors: Peres, Yoḥanan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Identity, nationalism, and multiculturalism
  • The social and cultural landscape of Israel
  • The Ultra-Orthodox in the city
  • Settlers as a cleavage
  • Mizrahim and Ashkenazim
  • Russian immigrants
  • Ethiopian Jews
  • Arabs and Druze in Israel
  • Foreign workers: the case of the Filipinos
  • The configuration of multiculturalism
  • Rules of multiculturalism
  • Identity and national politics
  • Cleavages transformed
  • Multiculturalism and the pursuit of meanings.