Israeli Identity: In Search of a Successor to the Pioneer, Tsabar and Settler

ISBN-13: 9780714653761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 266 str.

Lilly Weissbrod

Opis

Israelis are unique in having changed their identity three times in only one hundred years and in being in the process of doing so once again. The changes in their self-image have been brought about by contradictions or expansions of their territorial boundaries and by inconsistencies in their ongoing identity formulations. The self-image of the Pioneer related to the boundaries of Mandatory Palestine, that of the Tsabar to those of the State of Israel until the 1967 War and those of the settler to unspecified boundaries expanded beyond the preceding ones.

Recenzje

'In a thoroughly researched and well-argued book Weissbrod takes the reader through major stages in the development of Israeli society and the identity formation of its people. Though the book is professionally sound, it is written in a user-friendly style, thus making it interesting reading not only for expert sociologists and Middle-Eastern scholars ... undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the educated lay reader, [who] will be able to appreciate Dr Weissbrod's analysis.' - Yael Enoch, Head of Sociology Seciton, Open University, Ramat Aviv

Spis treści

1.The Pioneer - an ambivalent identity  2. The Tsabar - a self-defensive identity  3. The erosion of the Tsabar identity  4. The Settler - a quasi-religious identity  5. Blurry boundaries  6. Fracture  7. Concluding remarks

O autorze

Lilly Weissbrod