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Governing through educational discourse: the case of integration in Israel, 1970-1973
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Abstract Issues of ethnicity, culture, and national identity have been central in every political and social circle in Israel since the first days of the Zionist movement. The “new Jew,” a term created and lionized by the Zionist movement at the end of the 19th century, shadowed Israeli society and remained ... view more
Issues of ethnicity, culture, and national identity have been central in every political and social circle in Israel since the first days of the Zionist movement. The “new Jew,” a term created and lionized by the Zionist movement at the end of the 19th century, shadowed Israeli society and remained a critical part of the struggle for national identity and unity in the State of Israel after its independence in 1948. This Jew was to be a white, educated, westernized citizen, involved in both political and social processes, knowledgeable in the terms of the Western world. The concepts of the new Israeli-Jew completely ignored the fact that since the first days of the Zionism movement, the Middle Eastern Jew, born, raised and significantly involved in Arab countries, was a notable part of it and of the process of building the Jewish state of Israel. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Israel; national identity; cultural identity; collective identity; nationalism; cultural integration; political education; political action; zionism; state formation; historical development; Middle East
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 1-25
Journal
Federal Governance, 6 (2009) 1
ISSN
1923-6158
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed