Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2022.2173594
A. Krupnik
ABSTRACT In 1963, a total of 4,500 Argentines immigrated to Israel. Most were from the middle or lower middle classes and had a Jewish and Zionist education, seen as an advantage for adaptation in the new country. However, they had been driven primarily by economic factors, and during Israel’s recession in 1966 a substantial portion of them returned to Argentina. In order to understand the migrant experience of these people this article analyzes their return, arguing that class and work were more pertinent variables than Zionist ideology. It is based on the experience of unemployed Argentine immigrants in Ashdod, the struggles of those who hoped to own their own business without sufficient funds, and a reconstruction of the return voyage aboard the ship Jerusalem. The Zionist hegemony in Israeli society prevented a thorough understanding of the material needs, and motivations of Jewish-Argentine migrants, therefore, the narrative on their arrival emphasized the ideological motivations. In contrast, their socio-economic background and needs received less attention. The case presented in this article demonstrates how the state narrative about the arrival of migrants to the country might deeply affect the narrative about the number who would not stay.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2022.2136563
Ido Rosen
ABSTRACT Can anti-capitalist satire exist within show business, or is this an oxymoron? How can mainstream films claim to be socially conscious and rebellious, when at the same time they are products of an industry which aim to appeal to the masses and maximize profits? These questions were recently raised in relation to the popular and critical success of Hollywood hits like The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street, which followed the 2008 financial crash. This paper uses a group of Israeli financial satires as a case study and contributes a significant transnational addition to the debate. During the first half of the 1980s, the Israeli economy struggled with rampant inflation. The crisis inspired comedies such as Million Dollar Madness, The Plumber, and The Man Who Flew in to Grab. Although these films failed, they express a unique zeitgeist in Israeli history, and they are useful to examine the paradox. This analysis of these films provides valuable insights that can guide filmmakers toward overcoming and even resolving the paradox.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2022.2150376
Lee Cahaner, A. Malchi
ABSTRACT Over the past several decades, welfare states across the developed Western world, including Israel, have adopted differential employment policies for disadvantaged marginal populations that perform poorly in the labor market and are underrepresented in it. The intensive and rapid shift from Keynesian welfare policy to a more economical and efficient neoliberal approach sparked great turbulence in Israel's labor market, leaving broad swaths of the country's marginal populations outside of the capitalistic post-scarcity economy. In this article, we examine third-sector initiatives and governmental employment policies aimed at integrating and advancing Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) in the Israeli labor market. We also explore the tension between welfare, with its associated benefits and governmental assistance mechanisms, and the neoliberal approach, with its reliance on economic efficiency tests. The article looks at how the Haredi sector's labor market integration process has evolved. We aim to understand parallel developments between the processes outlined by the state and the Haredi community's socioeconomic needs under a neoliberal regime that prizes competition, achievement, and materialism – a regime in which social institutions are being reshaped, adjusted, and disciplined in accordance with market-oriented principles. We will examine the forces working behind the scenes to integrate Haredim in the economy and in society as a whole – the top-down policy forces striving to increase Israeli economic output, and the bottom-up internal-civic forces that want to create normative and economically feasible alternatives to the Haredi “society of learners” that developed under welfare-state auspices. The article seeks to answer three main questions in light of the aforementioned processes: How did the shift from a Keynesian welfare state to state workfare contribute to Haredi integration in the Israeli employment market? Who were the key political-social-economic actors and forces that shaped the process of Haredi labor market integration? And finally: how has neoliberal employment policy affected the Haredi community on the gender, spatial (center-periphery), class, and community planes, i.e., has this policy approach helped strengthen the Haredi middle class, and if so, how?
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2022.2149125
L. Alon
ABSTRACT In the analysis of Israeli society and the experience of immigration and integration into it in the first decades after its establishment in 1948, an Ashkenazi-Mizrahi dichotomy became prevalent, and the explanatory efficacy of other contributing factors went mostly unnoticed. The academic, institutional and public discourses that focused on those among the Mizrahi Jews, who struggled to fit-in, perpetuated the early Ashkenazi establishment’s biases against all that was Arab and by extension Mizrahi. Exploring socio-cultural practices - such as dress codes and choice of language, of Jews arriving in Israel from Egypt during this period, this paper will examine the role of class identity and performativity (rather than ethnicity) in shaping the immigrant experience of newcomers. Relying on multiple sources including interviews, life stories and oral testimonials, it will argue that the Jews of Cairo and Alexandria shared an urban middle-class habitus with the Israeli Ashkenazi elites; and that the performative expression of this shared identity enabled them to open doors closed to many other Middle Eastern and North African groups and paved their way into the Israeli mainstream despite their Mizrahi decent.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2021.2033451
A. Al-Kurdi
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2021.2034963
Anna Prashizky
ABSTRACT This article describes an emerging social protest movement among Generation 1.5 of Russian speakers who immigrated as older children or adolescents and came of age in Israel. It examines the generation, gender, and class aspects of the new social and cultural activism among Russian Israelis, while drawing on the concept of generation citizenship. Contrary to the civic conformism of their parent’s generation, the new Generation 1.5 leaders have developed a generational consciousness and perceive themselves as an active force for change. Acting primarily in the civic and cultural fields, the leaders of this large immigrant cohort are challenging the public discourse on Russian Israelis through successful social media campaigns such as video clips, blogs and articles, cultural festivals, public events, and media engagement.
{"title":"On generation citizenship: The new Russian protest among young immigrant adults in Israel","authors":"Anna Prashizky","doi":"10.1080/13531042.2021.2034963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2021.2034963","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article describes an emerging social protest movement among Generation 1.5 of Russian speakers who immigrated as older children or adolescents and came of age in Israel. It examines the generation, gender, and class aspects of the new social and cultural activism among Russian Israelis, while drawing on the concept of generation citizenship. Contrary to the civic conformism of their parent’s generation, the new Generation 1.5 leaders have developed a generational consciousness and perceive themselves as an active force for change. Acting primarily in the civic and cultural fields, the leaders of this large immigrant cohort are challenging the public discourse on Russian Israelis through successful social media campaigns such as video clips, blogs and articles, cultural festivals, public events, and media engagement.","PeriodicalId":43363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Israeli History","volume":"39 1","pages":"237 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44549316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2021.2033452
Hannah Kosstrin
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2021.2090482
Erez Trabelsi
ABSTRACT Underpinned by Bourdieuian theory, specifically, Bourdieu’s argument in Distinction (1984), this study investigates the instituting of an ethnoreligious social order in yeshiva high schools in Israel in the 1980s, as expressed in the personal accounts of Mizrahi graduates of these schools. The research findings indicate that the educational staff of the yeshiva high schools, being mostly Ashkenazi, constructed Ashkenazi religion as standard, and Mizrahi religion as flawed and out of place in the religious life of the yeshiva high school. The religious and liturgical practices in the yeshiva high schools followed purely Ashkenazi traditions, while the educational staff insisted on marking the inferiority of Mizrahi religion by means of various remarks regarding the students’ ethnic identity, in addition to inversion rituals that degraded Mizrahi religious traditions. The study findings correspond with Religious Zionist society’s preoccupation with the preference of the Ashkenazi version of religion to the Mizrahi version in state religious education in general, and in yeshiva high schools in particular.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2021.2045081
L. Eisenberg
ABSTRACT Israel’s 19th Independence Day preceded the Six-Day War by three weeks. Amid worsening regional tensions, the Eshkol government supplemented traditional diplomacy and deterrence by modifying Independence Day rituals with the intention of deterring further Arab provocations; reassuring Israelis of their leaders’ competency; leading the West to blame the Arabs, should war erupt; and asserting freedom of action in Jerusalem. A close analysis of this tinkering with the press, a poem, and a parade illuminates Eshkol’s management of the deteriorating security situation and Israel’s assumptions about Arab and global actors during the “waiting period eve” (erev ha-hamtana) preceding the three-week countdown to the war. The modified rituals failed to deter the Arabs, fully reassure Israelis or appease the West, instead exacerbating tensions, but successfully demonstrated Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem.
摘要以色列第19个独立日比六日战争提前了三周。在地区紧张局势不断恶化的情况下，埃什科尔政府通过修改独立日仪式来补充传统外交和威慑，以遏制阿拉伯的进一步挑衅；向以色列人保证其领导人的能力；如果战争爆发，导致西方指责阿拉伯人；以及在耶路撒冷维护行动自由。通过对媒体、一首诗和一场游行的仔细分析，可以看出埃什科尔对不断恶化的安全局势的管理，以及以色列在战争倒计时三周前的“等待期前夕”（erev ha hamtana）对阿拉伯和全球行为体的假设。修改后的仪式未能阻止阿拉伯人，也未能完全安抚以色列人或安抚西方，反而加剧了紧张局势，但成功地展示了以色列在耶路撒冷的主权。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2021.2033453
Anne Perez
Rottenberg argues Be’er’s Reservist’s Diary ’89 and Zaides’s Quiet address the Israeli– Palestinian conflict through different modalities: by portraying scenes taken from the experiences of war (Be’er) and via metaphorical emotional relationships that do not necessarily point to the conflict but come directly from it (Zaides). Rottenberg determines a dance’s politics through audiences’ reception. Because Reservist’s Diary, performed by Jewish Israelis, dramatized clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, audiences read it as being “about” the conflict and therefore political. Quiet, on the other hand, was more abstract in terms of theme and the way the movement played out through the mixed cast of Israeli and Palestinian dancers that reflected interpersonal relationships. As a result, audiences did not consider Quiet to be about the conflict or political. Whether the dances are political is not the right question to ask about these works since they are both clearly politically enmeshed. Instead, a question arising from Rottenberg’s claim that these dances expand concert dance might be, which methods of addressing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are most effective in doing so: making a dance that explicitly portrays violence through formalist theatrical conventions or creating a dance that appears more visually abstract built on the pain of the crisis and expressed through the bodies of its dancers? I would argue the latter, in order to manifest the structural, emotional-psychological, and human dimensions of the conflict, which are deeply engrained in audiences and performers. Moving through Conflict exemplifies the visceral stakes for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict’s personal implications. The essays demonstrate how dance embodies politics and how we can better understand Israeli history through dance exchange. This important book will benefit undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of dance and the Middle East, as well as readers interested in understanding politics through the body.
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