The book represent a set of research studies about social stratification in the kibbutz, which were conducted throughout the kibbutz movement during the first half of the 1980s. Table of Contents: A typy of community: a debate; Modern stratification; Application: stratification in the kibbutz; Attributes and rewards; Status and roles; Social strata; social mobility; Privileges and deprivation; Social networks; Social status and images of society; Social conflicts; The kibbutz - what next?.

Despite its restricted size - it represents about 3.5 percent of the Israeli population - the kibbutz is one of the most original aspects of Israeli society. Combining agriculture, industry and community services, this collective settlement is a constant object of scientific and intellectual curiosity.

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Family and Community in the Kibbutz

Author Peter Sichrovsky interviewd twenty-six Israeli young men and women and distilled each interview into a unique life story. All of the stories together create a unique portrait of the country and its diversity of cultures, traditions, and backgrounds..  Translated from the German by Jean Steinberg.

Yakov
My parents had come to Israel from Libya in 1952. More than thirty thousand Jews left Libya during those years, part of the half million Jews that left the Arab countries, all of them Sephardim.
In Israel they call us blacks, in contrast to the Ashkenazim, the whites. All of us who came from Arab countries at that time are looked on as dark-skinned, rather primitive and uncivilized savages, not like those civilized Europeans.

A collection of essays by Professor Yonina Talmon about the individual and the family in an equalitarian communal society. The several years of research she conducted in representative kibbutzim included extensive interviews of kibbutz members as well as observations of kibbutz life. Talmon reveals the conflict of individual versus communal calues in the kibbutz, the growing family influence over child-rearing, the evolution of an elite, and the problems of aging in a youth-oriented society.

266 pages, soft cover, good condition: owner's name on half-title page.

The kibbutz offers a unique and invaluable test case for the study of family organization in revolutionary and collectivist movements. There is very little reliable or systematic evidence on changes that have ocurred in the position of the family in societies like the Soviet Union and China. What scanty information is available for these societies concerns major changes in institutionalized patterns and official ideology.

The book surveys housing activities in Israel from before the establishment of the State until the present day, with special emphasis on the periods of mass immigration and the methods that were devised to meet the overwhelming housing problems that inevitably developed. This story serves as a background for the presentation of a well documented and comprehensive analysis of the economic, sociological and financial aspects of Israel's varied housing activities and their relationship to the economic development of the country.

A large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel. The book reports on the attitude and behavior of almost two thousand people from twenty countries during their first year in the new state. With introduction by Louis Guttman.

The immigrants with which this study deals arrived in Israel during the height of immigration to the new established state, the first two years of its existence. Immediately upon its establishment in May, 1948, Israel proclaimed an open-door immigration policy as one of its cardinal tenets. The lifting of the severe restrictions on immigration imposed by the British Mandatory authorities resulted in an immediate influx of Jews from many parts of the world. This book concerns these immigrants between 1949 and 1950, their first year in Israel.

The Sword and the Harp symbolize the conflict between the mystique of violence and the mystique of redemption, between the new and the old, between reality and dream in the Jewish world. This study of the contemporary Israel scene this theme is reflected in the various facets of the complex texture of the new society, its races, cultures, languages, myths, religion, its stratification, its social aspirations, its encounters and dialogues with various countries, and its deadly struggle with the Arab world. From the table of contents: The Sabra Figure; The Impact of Hebraization and Multi-lingualism; The Basic Myths of Israel; Who is Jew?; The Lessons of the Kibbutz Experiment; The Process of Orientalization; The Figure of Jesus on the Israeli Horizon; and more.

326 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: foxing on endpapers.

Understanding the Israel-born Jew, the Sabra, so called from the soft fruit of the prickly pear, is the clue to understanding Israeli society, because what the Sabra is today Israeli society will be tommorrow.

451 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: pages are clean, unmarked and tight, binding is strong with some rubbing, gift inscription.

The aim of this study is to provide a systematic analysis of the development of the Jewish community in Palestine from its beginnings in the late 1880s up to the present day. Such an analysis can, of course, be attempted from several diverse points of view. It seems to us that its focal point should be the development of the country's society as a modern society with specific problems and characteristics of its owm.

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Local Communities and the Israeli Polity

Although problems of identity have been the subject of considerable popular interest and latterly have received increased scientific attention, there is a surprising dearth of social psychological studies dealing specifically with ethnic identity.

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Religious And Secular: Conflict And Accommodation Between Jews In Israel

This book is a guide and a complete sourcebook of how to combine the imperatives of Judaism and individual female self respect, and how to bring about changes in Jewish tradition. Drawing on personal stories and the insights of experts, the book explores the multitude of ways in which women are reshaping both the private lives and the communal institutions of Jews today.

The basic patriarchal premise of Judaism has been that women and men are essentially different, and that gender differences - extending beyond mere biology - should be sanctioned and sanctified under Jewish law. This concept of difference allowed men (historically the ones assigning the roles) to exclude women unjustly from much that was important in Jewish life - or, rather, to determine that whatever it was that men were doing was defined as important: study, prayer, and communal ritual responsibilities. The role of women was as an essential Other, enabling men and boys to perform their roles with greater ease.

This is an anthropological study of Kiryat Yedidim, the fictitious name of a Kibbutz in Israel. This book is intended as a case study in the possibilities of social cooperation, and shows us the daily life, attitudes and problems of the Kibbutz members. The field work on which this study is based was conducted from February 1951 to December 1951.

306 pages, paperback, fair condition: browned pages.

Man's quest for a more perfect society is probably as old as man itself.

This book represents a systematic effort to analyze the role of local communities and regions in Israel's national politics. The authors demonstrate the growing importance of these communities in the politics of the country. Their analyses are based on the concept of "spatial sector," and eight sectors are covered: The West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs, Israeli Arabs, development towns, renewal neighborhoods, religious neighborhoods, Gush Emunim settlements, kibbutzim and moshavim, and Jerusalem.

In the The Origins of the Israeli Polity, Horowitz and Lissak (1978) describe the Yishuv, the pre-independence Jewish community in Palestine, as a.minority within a wider political system, yet with its own central political institutions that enjoyed a large degree of authority resembling that of a sovereign state. At the end of the British rule and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, power was transferred from these institutions to the formal government and was consolidated there. A highly centralized unitary political system quickly emerged. The system emphasized the strengthening of the state authority and statism for itself as prominent national values.

The book Religious and Secular: Conflict and Accommodation between Jews in Israel comprises a series of case studies, written especially for this book, focusing on relationships between religious and non-religious Jews in Israel in a variety of settings. From the Table of Contents: Amnon Levi: The Haredi Press and Secular Society. Naomi Gutkind-Golan: Mixed Communal Settlements. Asher Cohen: Political Partners: Relations between Religious and Non-Reigious in One Political Party. Leonard Weller and Sonia Topper Weller: Strange Bedfellows: A Study of Mixed Religious Marriages. and more.

The book brings to light the various aspects of the process of social integration and cultural adaptation of the new immigrants arriving in Israel in large number in the 1950s. The study surveys various literary works written in Hebrew by Israeli authors, many of them immigrants themselves. Its main subject matter is the meeting, and often the confrontation, between newcomers and old-timers in Israel, between the cultures of the Jewish Diaspora, and that which evolved among the Jewish population in the country in prior decades. Translated from the Hebrew.

163 pages, softcover, very good condition.

The society that the immigrants encountered during Israel's first four years of statehood had just ended a long and bloody War of Independence. In such a society the ideal of self-sacrifice for the common good was dominant, an ideal symbolized by the kibbutz. Although the calls to recognize individual needs and desires were growing stronger, society still demanded patience, endurance and sacrifice as the price to be paid for the privilege of living in Israel.

A colorful and compelling portrait of Israel, and of the different faces of the Israelis. Table of Contents: One of the World's Most Volatile Neighborhoods. Dating and Mating Israeli-Style. A People's Army. Swords into Stock Shares. The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS". The Mizrahim: The Other Israelis. The Russians: The New Exodus. Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the Promised Land. The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish. The Orthodox: This Land is Your Land? This Land Is My Land! The Non-Orthodox: War of the Cheeseburgers. The Muslims: Abraham's Other Children. The Bedouin: Tribes, Tents, and Satellite Dishes. The Druze: Between Modernity and Tradition. The Christians: Uneasy in the Land of Jesus. Marriage, Polygamy, Adultery, and Divorce Israeli-Style. Oy! Gay?. Hookers and Hash in the Holy Land.

466 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: clean and tight book.  ISBN 0-684-86972-1.

Rahamim Zidkiyahu, a fanatic soccer fan, tried convincing his boss to let him drive an earlier bus so he could get home in time to watch the World Cup match between Japan and Turkey. His boss refused. When the scheduled driver was late, Rahamim felt God was smiling on him. He eagerly volunteered to drive it. On the morning of June 18, 2002, Jerusalem's bus 32A was packed with schoolchildren and commuters.

The story of the development towns in Israel - their historic background; the beginning of each town; their gradual development; the trials and tribulations of firstcomers; the problems that are common to all development towns; the woes and failures of some, and the great achievements of others; and the success storues of a few. The towns discussed are: Kiryat Shmona, Hatzor Haglilit, Beit Shean, Natzrat Illit, Migdal Haemek, Maalot, Shlomi, Carmiel, Yokneam, Or Akiva, Beit Shemesh, Rosh Haayin, Or Yehuda, Yavne, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Kiryat Malachi, Kiryat Gat, Sderot, Netivot, Ofakim, Beersheva, Arad, Dimona, Yeruham, Mitzpe Ramon, Eilat.

272 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: jacket is with minor tears.

The phenomenon "Development Town" is the greatest creation, the most fascinating story of the rebirth of the Land of Israel. It is not just another story of brick and mortar, of buildings and pavements on hills, in valleys and in the hot, sandy desert.

How do women act when they are freed from most household chores, economically independent of their husbands, and have been living apart from their children from the time the children were approximately four weeks old? Given equal and similar social circumstances, do men and women behave in the same way - in politics? the economy? warfare? Women in the Kibbutz, a social study based on the lives of 34,040 kibbutz dwellers, attempts to answer these questions.

What happens to women who entrust their children`s care to communal nurseries from the age of two to six week on? What happens to women who are supported not by their husbands but by the collective to which they belong?
(Lionel Tiger & Joseph Shepher: Women in the Kibbutz, page 3)