Jeffrey C. Alexander
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195326222
- eISBN:
- 9780199944064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326222.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter begins by presenting a comic strip,Non Sequitor, by Wiley. This strip of popular culture indicates that the universalization of the Holocaust is alive and well, even as the collective ...
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This chapter begins by presenting a comic strip,Non Sequitor, by Wiley. This strip of popular culture indicates that the universalization of the Holocaust is alive and well, even as the collective consciousness continually addresses fears of forgetting. Then, it provides a historical context for “The Social Construction of Moral Universals”. It examines how the movement, from a progressive tragic trauma narration created moral particularism alongside universalism, and fueled social splitting and antagonism at the same time as cooperation and expanded solidarity. This chapter also looks at Israeli Jews.Less
This chapter begins by presenting a comic strip,Non Sequitor, by Wiley. This strip of popular culture indicates that the universalization of the Holocaust is alive and well, even as the collective consciousness continually addresses fears of forgetting. Then, it provides a historical context for “The Social Construction of Moral Universals”. It examines how the movement, from a progressive tragic trauma narration created moral particularism alongside universalism, and fueled social splitting and antagonism at the same time as cooperation and expanded solidarity. This chapter also looks at Israeli Jews.
Ronit Aaron
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081705
- eISBN:
- 9781781702550
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081705.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book starts by presenting the deconstruction of the myths presented which enabled the denial of the destruction of Palestine. Questions of guilt, responsibility and accountability are regularly ...
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This book starts by presenting the deconstruction of the myths presented which enabled the denial of the destruction of Palestine. Questions of guilt, responsibility and accountability are regularly debated in Israel in relation to Nazi culpability. It also reviews the layers of denial the story of the Nakba encountered. It investigates Nakba co-memory practices from an anti-Zionist rather than Zionist standpoint. Jeffrey Olick explores the moral agonies of German defeat, the most consequential for Germans. There is a link between denial and ‘working through’ in the exploration of the co-memorative work by Israeli Jews. Moreover, this book interrogates the potentialities of internal emigration, questioning whether such co-memoration ultimately appropriates the Palestinian memorising voice. It then presents an Israeli-Jewish story about Palestine.Less
This book starts by presenting the deconstruction of the myths presented which enabled the denial of the destruction of Palestine. Questions of guilt, responsibility and accountability are regularly debated in Israel in relation to Nazi culpability. It also reviews the layers of denial the story of the Nakba encountered. It investigates Nakba co-memory practices from an anti-Zionist rather than Zionist standpoint. Jeffrey Olick explores the moral agonies of German defeat, the most consequential for Germans. There is a link between denial and ‘working through’ in the exploration of the co-memorative work by Israeli Jews. Moreover, this book interrogates the potentialities of internal emigration, questioning whether such co-memoration ultimately appropriates the Palestinian memorising voice. It then presents an Israeli-Jewish story about Palestine.
Ronit Aaron
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081705
- eISBN:
- 9781781702550
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081705.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter reviews the memory and melancholia nexus through several prisms. It starts by asking whether Israeli-Jewish Nakba co-memoration ultimately serves to construct activists' Jewish identity ...
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This chapter reviews the memory and melancholia nexus through several prisms. It starts by asking whether Israeli-Jewish Nakba co-memoration ultimately serves to construct activists' Jewish identity with melancholia being not for the land or the lost Palestinians, but rather for an uncomplicated and idyllic lost Jewish Israeli identity. It then revisits Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance and counterposing co-memorative practices. It asks whether Israeli Jews engaged in the co-memory work what David Goldberg calls ‘racial melancholia’. National identity serves as an instrument of separating ‘us’ from ‘them’, as national identity, differently from all other identities, and demands exclusive allegiance and fidelity. The necessary conclusion of co-memorating the Nakba must be recognising the Palestinian right of return. Most Jewish immigrants to Palestine and then to Israel did harbour a vision of a new, free, Jewish life.Less
This chapter reviews the memory and melancholia nexus through several prisms. It starts by asking whether Israeli-Jewish Nakba co-memoration ultimately serves to construct activists' Jewish identity with melancholia being not for the land or the lost Palestinians, but rather for an uncomplicated and idyllic lost Jewish Israeli identity. It then revisits Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance and counterposing co-memorative practices. It asks whether Israeli Jews engaged in the co-memory work what David Goldberg calls ‘racial melancholia’. National identity serves as an instrument of separating ‘us’ from ‘them’, as national identity, differently from all other identities, and demands exclusive allegiance and fidelity. The necessary conclusion of co-memorating the Nakba must be recognising the Palestinian right of return. Most Jewish immigrants to Palestine and then to Israel did harbour a vision of a new, free, Jewish life.
Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300084269
- eISBN:
- 9780300130218
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300084269.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn ...
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Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty per cent of the world's Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures. Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, prominent Israeli and American scholars focus on the political, social, and memory cultures of their two communities, considering, in particular, the American-Jewish challenge to Diaspora consciousness and the Israeli struggle to forge a secular, national Jewish identity. At the same time, they seek to understand how a sense of mutual responsibility and fate animates American and Israeli Jews who reside in distant places, speak different languages, and live within different political and social worlds.Less
Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty per cent of the world's Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures. Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, prominent Israeli and American scholars focus on the political, social, and memory cultures of their two communities, considering, in particular, the American-Jewish challenge to Diaspora consciousness and the Israeli struggle to forge a secular, national Jewish identity. At the same time, they seek to understand how a sense of mutual responsibility and fate animates American and Israeli Jews who reside in distant places, speak different languages, and live within different political and social worlds.
Ronit Aaron
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081705
- eISBN:
- 9781781702550
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081705.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter links the theoretical foundations and politics of social memory in relation to the building blocks of the current ‘memory turn’ in the social sciences to social memory in the Israeli ...
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This chapter links the theoretical foundations and politics of social memory in relation to the building blocks of the current ‘memory turn’ in the social sciences to social memory in the Israeli context. It also places memory as social, constructed and mediated and it is divided into three main themes, theorising memory in spatial, temporal and social terms. It then pursues a temporal line of inquiry, beginning from Marianne Hirsch's notion of ‘postmemory’. It reiterates memory as a social process. Collective memory is often equated with official memory, popular memory and cultural memory. Claiming the authenticity of collective memories is very evident in Pierre Nora. The Nakba embodies an unbridgeable gap between two qualitatively different periods, pre- and post-Nakba, making generational time a third key element of memory time for Palestinians. It is suggested that it is more apt to think of Nakba commemoration by Israeli Jews as co-memory.Less
This chapter links the theoretical foundations and politics of social memory in relation to the building blocks of the current ‘memory turn’ in the social sciences to social memory in the Israeli context. It also places memory as social, constructed and mediated and it is divided into three main themes, theorising memory in spatial, temporal and social terms. It then pursues a temporal line of inquiry, beginning from Marianne Hirsch's notion of ‘postmemory’. It reiterates memory as a social process. Collective memory is often equated with official memory, popular memory and cultural memory. Claiming the authenticity of collective memories is very evident in Pierre Nora. The Nakba embodies an unbridgeable gap between two qualitatively different periods, pre- and post-Nakba, making generational time a third key element of memory time for Palestinians. It is suggested that it is more apt to think of Nakba commemoration by Israeli Jews as co-memory.
Nir Avieli
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520290099
- eISBN:
- 9780520964419
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520290099.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter illustrates how the Hummus Wars were motivated by the strained relations between Israeli Jews, Palestinians, and Middle Eastern Arabs. The Hummus Wars are a great example of ...
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This introductory chapter illustrates how the Hummus Wars were motivated by the strained relations between Israeli Jews, Palestinians, and Middle Eastern Arabs. The Hummus Wars are a great example of the kind of internal debates that pervade the culinary sphere, where members of a given social group negotiate different aspects of their identity—such as ethnicity, religion, gender, and class—among themselves over the dining table. The chapter shows the process of culinary globalization and attempts at transcending the local that were evident at Abu Gosh. It also presents some of the seminal definitions of power by social scientists and then applies them to the culinary sphere.Less
This introductory chapter illustrates how the Hummus Wars were motivated by the strained relations between Israeli Jews, Palestinians, and Middle Eastern Arabs. The Hummus Wars are a great example of the kind of internal debates that pervade the culinary sphere, where members of a given social group negotiate different aspects of their identity—such as ethnicity, religion, gender, and class—among themselves over the dining table. The chapter shows the process of culinary globalization and attempts at transcending the local that were evident at Abu Gosh. It also presents some of the seminal definitions of power by social scientists and then applies them to the culinary sphere.
Nir Avieli
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520290099
- eISBN:
- 9780520964419
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520290099.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the strained relations between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians living in the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 war, based on a study conducted in an Israeli ...
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This chapter explores the strained relations between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians living in the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 war, based on a study conducted in an Israeli military prison for Palestinian detainees. The reserve soldiers charged with guarding the prison insisted that their poor military performance and their sense of weakness within the prison power structure were due to a lack of meat. A discourse of victimization evolved among the soldiers in which their apparent weakness—which they claimed to be a result of their meatless diet—became the justification for institutional and personal abuse inflicted on the Palestinian prisoners. The chapter also shows the intimate realties of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes some of the implicit mechanisms that maintain a sense of victimization among Israeli Jews.Less
This chapter explores the strained relations between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians living in the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 war, based on a study conducted in an Israeli military prison for Palestinian detainees. The reserve soldiers charged with guarding the prison insisted that their poor military performance and their sense of weakness within the prison power structure were due to a lack of meat. A discourse of victimization evolved among the soldiers in which their apparent weakness—which they claimed to be a result of their meatless diet—became the justification for institutional and personal abuse inflicted on the Palestinian prisoners. The chapter also shows the intimate realties of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes some of the implicit mechanisms that maintain a sense of victimization among Israeli Jews.
Ronit Aaron
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081705
- eISBN:
- 9781781702550
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081705.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter describes the psychic reproduction of Nakba comemory by Israeli Jews. It discusses Sigmund Freud's ‘Mourning and melancholia’. It reports Haim Bresheeth's rereading of Freud. It then ...
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This chapter describes the psychic reproduction of Nakba comemory by Israeli Jews. It discusses Sigmund Freud's ‘Mourning and melancholia’. It reports Haim Bresheeth's rereading of Freud. It then develops Bresheeth's line of inquiry about Palestinian film-making about the Nakba. The preoccupation of some Israelis with Palestine and the Nakba may provide a creative way of assuaging the melancholia engendered by the destruction of Palestine. Haim Guri's work depicts the illusory paradox of the simultaneous Israeli Jewish melancholic yearning for the loss of Palestine and the delusion that conquest means co-existence. It is suggested that the shadow of the Palestinians' pre-1948 existence and of their dispossession impinges in ways which cannot always be accounted for rationally, resulting in grief which is not necessarily given to a successful resolution of mourning work, resulting rather in ongoing melancholia which pushes some of ‘us’ into the arms of a like-minded political (or comemorative) community.Less
This chapter describes the psychic reproduction of Nakba comemory by Israeli Jews. It discusses Sigmund Freud's ‘Mourning and melancholia’. It reports Haim Bresheeth's rereading of Freud. It then develops Bresheeth's line of inquiry about Palestinian film-making about the Nakba. The preoccupation of some Israelis with Palestine and the Nakba may provide a creative way of assuaging the melancholia engendered by the destruction of Palestine. Haim Guri's work depicts the illusory paradox of the simultaneous Israeli Jewish melancholic yearning for the loss of Palestine and the delusion that conquest means co-existence. It is suggested that the shadow of the Palestinians' pre-1948 existence and of their dispossession impinges in ways which cannot always be accounted for rationally, resulting in grief which is not necessarily given to a successful resolution of mourning work, resulting rather in ongoing melancholia which pushes some of ‘us’ into the arms of a like-minded political (or comemorative) community.
Yfaat Weiss
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231152266
- eISBN:
- 9780231526265
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231152266.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This book tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national ...
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This book tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national Israeli authorities of European origin. The protests of Wadi Salib generated for the first time a kind of political awareness of an existing ethnic discrimination among Israeli Jews. However, before that, Wadi Salib existed as an impoverished Arab neighborhood. The war of 1948 displaced its residents, even though the presence of the absentees and the Arab name still linger. The book investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib’s Arab heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. At the core lies the concept of property, as the book merges the constraints of former Arab ownership with requirements and restrictions pertaining to urban development and the emergence of its entangled memory. Establishing an association between Wadi Salib’s Arab refugees and subsequent Moroccan evacuees, the book allegorizes the Israeli amnesia about both eventual stories—that of the former Arab inhabitants and that of the riots of 1959, occurring at different times but in one place. The book uncovers a complex, multilayered, and hidden history and offers uncommon perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli belonging.Less
This book tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national Israeli authorities of European origin. The protests of Wadi Salib generated for the first time a kind of political awareness of an existing ethnic discrimination among Israeli Jews. However, before that, Wadi Salib existed as an impoverished Arab neighborhood. The war of 1948 displaced its residents, even though the presence of the absentees and the Arab name still linger. The book investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib’s Arab heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. At the core lies the concept of property, as the book merges the constraints of former Arab ownership with requirements and restrictions pertaining to urban development and the emergence of its entangled memory. Establishing an association between Wadi Salib’s Arab refugees and subsequent Moroccan evacuees, the book allegorizes the Israeli amnesia about both eventual stories—that of the former Arab inhabitants and that of the riots of 1959, occurring at different times but in one place. The book uncovers a complex, multilayered, and hidden history and offers uncommon perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli belonging.
Zvi Bekerman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199336517
- eISBN:
- 9780190463076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199336517.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter describes how the teachers in the bilingual Jewish-Palestinian schools view the education with which they are involved. Through data representing multiple perspectives from years of ...
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This chapter describes how the teachers in the bilingual Jewish-Palestinian schools view the education with which they are involved. Through data representing multiple perspectives from years of observations and interviews, the experiences and attitudes of Palestinian and Jewish teachers are presented together with analyses of how these elements affect their classroom practices in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian-Arab teachers, for example, saw Hebrew-Arabic bilingualism as a key element to reconciliation, whereas Jewish teachers believed that learning Arabic was not a central issue for participating Jewish families. The analysis also revealed that teachers are caught between contradictory expectations expressed by the initiative’s shareholders and by their own personal perspectives. The teachers, unlike their many critics, were aware of the contextual constraints posed by the parents’ expectations, the strictures of the Israeli Ministry of Education, and their own socialization.Less
This chapter describes how the teachers in the bilingual Jewish-Palestinian schools view the education with which they are involved. Through data representing multiple perspectives from years of observations and interviews, the experiences and attitudes of Palestinian and Jewish teachers are presented together with analyses of how these elements affect their classroom practices in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian-Arab teachers, for example, saw Hebrew-Arabic bilingualism as a key element to reconciliation, whereas Jewish teachers believed that learning Arabic was not a central issue for participating Jewish families. The analysis also revealed that teachers are caught between contradictory expectations expressed by the initiative’s shareholders and by their own personal perspectives. The teachers, unlike their many critics, were aware of the contextual constraints posed by the parents’ expectations, the strictures of the Israeli Ministry of Education, and their own socialization.
Alex Lubin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469612881
- eISBN:
- 9781469615318
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469612881.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This transnational history reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set ...
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This transnational history reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements. It extends the framework of the black freedom struggle beyond the familiar geographies of the Atlantic world and sheds new light on the linked political, social, and intellectual imaginings of African Americans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Israeli Jews. This history of intellectual exchange, the author argues, has forged political connections that extend beyond national and racial boundaries.Less
This transnational history reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements. It extends the framework of the black freedom struggle beyond the familiar geographies of the Atlantic world and sheds new light on the linked political, social, and intellectual imaginings of African Americans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Israeli Jews. This history of intellectual exchange, the author argues, has forged political connections that extend beyond national and racial boundaries.
Stephen Eric Bronner
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814748923
- eISBN:
- 9780814748930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814748923.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter argues that we must not allow fears of the Protocols in the 21st century to blind us to the differences between the text's role in our day and its role a century ago on the one hand, and ...
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This chapter argues that we must not allow fears of the Protocols in the 21st century to blind us to the differences between the text's role in our day and its role a century ago on the one hand, and not allow our fears of anti-Semitism to silence responsible self-criticism, in particular that of Jews criticizing aspects of Israeli policy, on the other. A rigorous critique of Israel is thus not only legitimate, but necessary. The very creation of Israel has fundamentally changed the situation, as Jews are no longer in the ghetto or an oppressed minority, therefore one cannot compare the real victims of Protocols-inspired genocidal paranoia to Israeli Jews, who can now defend themselves.Less
This chapter argues that we must not allow fears of the Protocols in the 21st century to blind us to the differences between the text's role in our day and its role a century ago on the one hand, and not allow our fears of anti-Semitism to silence responsible self-criticism, in particular that of Jews criticizing aspects of Israeli policy, on the other. A rigorous critique of Israel is thus not only legitimate, but necessary. The very creation of Israel has fundamentally changed the situation, as Jews are no longer in the ghetto or an oppressed minority, therefore one cannot compare the real victims of Protocols-inspired genocidal paranoia to Israeli Jews, who can now defend themselves.
Gustavo Mesch and Ilan Talmud
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262113120
- eISBN:
- 9780262276818
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262113120.003.0023
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter explores how cultural differences influence the use of communication technology. It also discusses how adolescent Israeli Jews and Arabs who belong to different cultures entirely were ...
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This chapter explores how cultural differences influence the use of communication technology. It also discusses how adolescent Israeli Jews and Arabs who belong to different cultures entirely were studied regarding their use of communication technologies to see the role culture plays in technology use. The chapter presents the difference between the incorporation of communication technology of adolescent Israeli Jews and Arabs, wherein it is shown that the culture of Israeli Jews appears more liberal and individually oriented toward adopting communication technology. It explores how language is also seen as a possible barrier to adopting communication technology such as the Internet for the Arabs, who unlike Israeli Jews, do not seem to have a good command over English language as they study Arabic at high school.Less
This chapter explores how cultural differences influence the use of communication technology. It also discusses how adolescent Israeli Jews and Arabs who belong to different cultures entirely were studied regarding their use of communication technologies to see the role culture plays in technology use. The chapter presents the difference between the incorporation of communication technology of adolescent Israeli Jews and Arabs, wherein it is shown that the culture of Israeli Jews appears more liberal and individually oriented toward adopting communication technology. It explores how language is also seen as a possible barrier to adopting communication technology such as the Internet for the Arabs, who unlike Israeli Jews, do not seem to have a good command over English language as they study Arabic at high school.
Nir Avieli
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520290099
- eISBN:
- 9780520964419
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520290099.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, this book considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. The book ...
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Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, this book considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. The book explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine (a defining element of which is large portions of “satisfying” dishes made from mediocre ingredients), the ownership of hummus, Israel's Independence Day barbecues, the popularity of Italian food in Israel, the privatization of communal Kibbutz dining rooms, and food at a military prison for Palestinian detainees to show how cooking and eating create ambivalence concerning questions of strength and weakness and how power and victimization are mixed into a sense of self-justification that maintains internal cohesion among Israeli Jews. The book concludes by presenting two culinary trends in contemporary Israel that emerge at the intersection of food and power.Less
Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, this book considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. The book explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine (a defining element of which is large portions of “satisfying” dishes made from mediocre ingredients), the ownership of hummus, Israel's Independence Day barbecues, the popularity of Italian food in Israel, the privatization of communal Kibbutz dining rooms, and food at a military prison for Palestinian detainees to show how cooking and eating create ambivalence concerning questions of strength and weakness and how power and victimization are mixed into a sense of self-justification that maintains internal cohesion among Israeli Jews. The book concludes by presenting two culinary trends in contemporary Israel that emerge at the intersection of food and power.
Dan Rabinowitz
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520244412
- eISBN:
- 9780520938960
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520244412.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens ...
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This historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, the book merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of the conflict, from the 1920s to the present. The text weaves vivid accounts and vignettes of family history into a multidisciplinary analysis of the political drama that continues to unfold in the Middle East. The book offers an authoritative inquiry into the traumatic events of October 2000, when thirteen Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli police during political demonstrations, and culminates in a blueprint for reform.Less
This historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, the book merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of the conflict, from the 1920s to the present. The text weaves vivid accounts and vignettes of family history into a multidisciplinary analysis of the political drama that continues to unfold in the Middle East. The book offers an authoritative inquiry into the traumatic events of October 2000, when thirteen Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli police during political demonstrations, and culminates in a blueprint for reform.
