Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies - Softcover

Kimmerling, Baruch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023114329X ISBN 13: 9780231143295

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two seemingly irreconcilable cultures, Kimmerling composes a sophisticated portrait of one side's behavior and characteristics and the way in which they irrevocably shaped those of the other.

Kimmerling focuses on the clashes, tensions, and complementarities that link Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli identities. He explores the phenomena of reciprocal relationships between Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory Palestine, relations between state and society in Israel, patterns of militarism, the problems of jurisdiction in an immigrant-settler society, and the ongoing struggle of Israel to achieve legitimacy as both a Jewish and a democratic state. By merging Israeli and Jewish studies with a vast body of scholarship on Palestinians and the Middle East, Kimmerling introduces a unique conceptual framework for analyzing the cultural, political, and material overlap of both societies. A must read for those concerned with Israel and the relations between Jews and Arabs, Clash of Identities is a provocative exploration of the ever-evolving, always-contending identities available to Israelis and Palestinians and the fascinating contexts in which they take form.

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Baruch Kimmerling (1939-2007) was George S. Wise Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Widely regarded as the leading Israeli sociologist of his generation, Kimmerling's books include Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians, The Invention and Decline of Israeliness, and, with Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 023114329X
• ISBN 13: 9780231143295
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 431
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