
The Emergence of a Mizrachi Middle Class in Israel
The Struggle of Mizrachi Jews for Mobility, Status, and Prestige
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2025
Book
Hardback
VI, 203 pages
978-3-11-142104-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Emergence of the Mizrachi Middle Class
examines one of the major issues in the sociology of Israel: the story of the Mizrachim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent), a group that has been, and is still, engaged in class-mobility efforts, and is ostensibly closing the gap between itself and the Ashkenazim (Jews of Central and Eastern European extraction). This is one of the most important social processes to have emerged in Israel in recent decades; it is changing the face of the Israeli middle class. While Israeli public discourse depicts this process as a reduction of ethnic and class disparities, the critical analysis offered in this book aims to reveal the issue's tremendous complexity. The academically-educated Mizrachi middle class is an effective social focus for the description and critical analysis of the Mizrachi mobility process, its sources, and the accompanying social unrest. The book shows that Mizrachi mobility was not a continuous progression along orderly mobility routes, but rather a struggle full of mobility traps - a Sisyphean effort to achieve not only economic advancement, but also status and prestige in Israeli society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/München/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
9 s/w Tabellen
9 b/w tbl.
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-142104-9 (9783111421049)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Uri Cohen | Nissim Leon
The Emergence of a Mizrachi Middle Class in Israel
The Struggle of Mizrachi Jews for Mobility, Status, and Prestige
E-Book
03/2025
1st Edition
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
€129.95
Available for download

Uri Cohen | Nissim Leon
The Emergence of a Mizrachi Middle Class in Israel
The Struggle of Mizrachi Jews for Mobility, Status, and Prestige
E-Book
03/2025
1st Edition
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
€129.95
Available for download
Persons
Uri Cohen
, Tel Aviv University, and
Nissim Leon
, Bar Ilan University, Israel.