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Debates over the forms and levels of ethnic pluralism and the relationship between class and ethnicity in the Israeli Jewish population provide the background of an analysis of friendship networks of four groups of origin, two from the Middle East and two from Europe. It is shown that, whereas only small minorities have homogeneous networks based on country of origin, the broad ethnic division between `Middle Easterners' and `Europeans', and the class division between white-collar and blue-collar workers are important bases of friendship. Differences among the eth-class categories in the ethnic heterogeneity/homogeneity of their networks are largely a consequence of the class distribution of Jews of Middle Eastern and European origin in Israeli society.

Jewry today is marked by transnational competing movements and local influences, meanwhile worldwide Judeophobia and sympathy for the Palestinian cause make Israel the ""Jew among nations". This volume asks: how much is the Jewish Commonwealth still pertinent to Jewry?

The authors of this collection, renowned scholars from around the world, explore the tensions and dilemmas that impact pluralism and homogeneity in modern societies. This book is in homage to Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt. We honor his ground-breaking work in the comparative study of modernities and civilizations

Part 1: Introduction: The study of language and communication in Israeli social sciences. - S. 3-30. Part 2: Language and communication in daily life. - S. 31-174. Part 3: Language in a pluralistic society. - S. 175-312. Part 4: Electronic media and social diversity. - S. 313-370. Part 5: In times of elections. - S. 371-434. Part 6: In the shadow of the Israeli-Arab conflict. - S. 435-518. Part 7: Society, state, and mass media. - S. 519-624. Part 8: Thinking about the future. - S. 625-642

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in 'ordered disorder'. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic lan

This volume offers a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. Stretching from political science to sociology, from art to cultural studies, it provides systematic tools for understanding different aspects of the Jewish experience.

The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their "good reasons" to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas

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(London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2018), 416 pp. Hardback, $74.95.Alexandre Kedar, Ahmad Amara, and Oren Yiftachel, Emptied Lands:
A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev (Stanford, CA: Stanford
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in Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 315 pp. Hardback,
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and Adaptation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), 162 pp.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between / Gitelman, Zvi -- Part I. Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone? -- 1. Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora / Tolts, Mark -- 2. The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel / Rebhun, Uzi -- 3. Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine / Sapritsky, Marina -- Part II. Transnationalism and Diasporas -- 4. Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU / Dekel-Chen, Jonathan -- 5. Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today / Pollin-Galay, Hannah -- 6. Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations / Gold, Steven J. -- Part III. Political and Economic Change -- 7. Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany / Bagno-Moldavski, Olena -- 8. The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity? / Ro'i, Yaacov -- 9. The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel / Ofer, Gur -- Part IV. Resocialization and the Malleability of Ethnicity -- 10. Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany / Ben-Rafael, Eliezer -- 11. Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany / Roberman, Sveta -- 12. Inventing a "New Jew": The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia / Nosenko-Stein, Elena -- Part V. Migration and Religious Change -- 13. Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion / Elias, Nelly / Lerner, Julia -- 14. Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online / Shternshis, Anna -- Part VI. Diaspora Russian Literature -- 15. Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldshtein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky / Krutikov, Mikhail -- 16. Poets and Poetry in Today's Diaspora: On Being "Marginally Jewish" / Sandler, Stephanie -- 17. Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers / Wanner, Adrian -- Afterword: The Future of a Diaspora / Gitelman, Zvi -- Notes on Contributors -- Index