
Israeli Identities
Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other
Yair Auron(Author)
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-78238-795-4 (ISBN)
Description
The question of identity is one of present-day Israel's cardinal and most pressing issues. In a comprehensive examination of the identity issue, this study focuses on attitudes toward the Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora; the Holocaust and its repercussions on identity; attitudes toward the state of Israel and Zionism; and attitudes toward Jewish religion. Israeli Arab students (Israeli Palestinians) and Jewish Israeli students were asked corresponding questions regarding their identity. It was found that, rather than lessening its impact over the years, the Holocaust has become a major factor, at times the paramount factor in Jewish identity. Similarly, among Palestinians the Naqba has become a major factor in Palestinian-Israeli identity. However, the overall results show that the identity of a Jewish citizen of Israel is not purely Israeli, nor is it purely Jewish. It is, to varying degrees, a synthesis of Jewish and Israeli components, depending on the particular sub-groups or sub-identities. The same holds for Israeli-Arabs or Israeli-Palestinians who have neither a purely Israeli identity nor a purely Palestinian (or Arab) one.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a very professional and empirical study on Israeli attitudes to both the Holocaust and the Naqba and their implications on the construction of present-day Israeli identities. The scholarship is sound and the methodology impressive." ? Ilan Pappe, author of A History of Modern Palestine. One Land, Two People.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
85 Tables, unspecified; 85 Figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78238-795-4 (9781782387954)
DOI
10.3167/9780857453051
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Person
Yair Auron is a professor of genocide and contemporary Judaism at the Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. He has published numerous books and essays, mainly on genocide and on Jewish identity in Israel and Europe, including most recently, The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (2000), The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide (2003), Genocide - Reflections on the Inconceivable: Theoretical Aspects in Genocide Studied (2007), A Perfect Injustice: Genocide and the Armenian Theft (2009, with Hrayr S. Karagueuzian) and Genocide -So That I Wouldn't Be Among the Silent (2011).
Content
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: Expressions of Jewish Identity in the Modern Era in the Diaspora and in Israel
Chapter 1. Israeli Identities 2008
Chapter 2. My People and Me
Chapter 3. The Holocaust and Me; The Nakba and Me
Chapter 4. "The Other" and Me
Chapter 5. The State of Israel and Me
Chapter 6. Religion and Me
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Preface
Introduction: Expressions of Jewish Identity in the Modern Era in the Diaspora and in Israel
Chapter 1. Israeli Identities 2008
Chapter 2. My People and Me
Chapter 3. The Holocaust and Me; The Nakba and Me
Chapter 4. "The Other" and Me
Chapter 5. The State of Israel and Me
Chapter 6. Religion and Me
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography