T Sorek
Biographic Data
| ID | 9026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Sorek |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorek |
| SIGNATURE | SOREK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2363-4888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Failed Decolonization of Egyptian Basketball, 1920–1952
The Bible, the Holocaust, and eliminatory stands among Israelis
Mainstreaming a Genocidal Imagination in Israeli Society
In the past two months, many have come to understand the commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek. Previously, they struggled with the idea – destroying an entire people, including women and ch
Introduction
The settler-colonial paradigm has gained traction in the study of Palestine/Israel in recent years. The current war in Gaza, with the International Court of Justice ruling that a genocide is plausible, has highlighted the pivotal role of settler colonialism as an analytical framework to understand and contextualize the current wave of apocalyptic violence. At the same time, references to settler colonialism have triggered discursive resistance am…
Palestine/Israel Review
Knowledge about Palestine/Israel has long been produced and recruited for multiple contradictory political struggles. The emergence of distinct, counterposed scholarly associations, centers, and publications for Palestine studies and Israel studies reflects a certain set of contemporary political logics and agendas. What is the meaning of this separation? What are its implications for our scholarly understanding of dynamics in Palestine/Israel? C…
Benjamin Netanyahu as a mobilizing symbol in ethno-class divisions among Jewish Israelis, 2009–2021
The public discourse over Israel’s unprecedented political crisis in 2019–2021 (four general elections in only two years) has focused on the personality and actions of one person: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Relying on a series of public opinion polls during Netanyahu’s second term (2009–2021), we examine the triadic relationship between the following components: (1) sentiments toward Netanyahu, (2) affiliation with ethno-class Jewish stat…
Monumentos conmemorativos en homenaje a los mártires (1976-1983) & (1998-2013)
En este artículo se plantea la complejidad que exige el análisis de la memoria nacional palestina tras ser interceptada por dos formas de colonialismo occidental; la del Mandato Británico a inicios del siglo XX, y la ocupación israelí que inició en 1948. Con la modernidad occidental colonial llegaron también las instancias de referencia por excelencia para conmemorar la memoria nacional, donde lo palestino no tuvo cabida sino hasta 1976, con la a…
Sports and boycott
The controversy about the campaign to boycott Israel in general and Israeli sports in particular suffers from the absence of empirical data about the political character of the Israeli sports sphere, as well as the way Jewish Israelis see a possible boycott. Supporters of the boycott hope, among other things, that the campaign is registered among Israelis, and maybe even contribute to political change. Liberal opposition relies on the argument th…
Culture and politics in Palestine/Israel
While the scholarly study of culture as a political sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, the articles in this issue highlight some particular understudies aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; the nightclub scene as a field of encounter, appropriation, and exclusion; an analysis of the institutional and political conditions of Palestinian cin…
Palestinian Commemoration in Israel
The Palestinian Flag Is Back
This article reexamines my argument published in 2007 regarding the apolitical character of Arab soccer fans in Israel. Until recently, explicit political protest and expressions of Palestinian national identity have remained outside the stadium. For most Arab fans, soccer was an opportunity to display common ground with Jewish citizens. Displaying Palestinian nationalism was considered to be endangering the potential for rapprochement. However, …
Introduction
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Divided nations and European integration
Public Silence and Latent Memories
This article examines how Yitzhak Rabin is remembered by Palestinian citizens of Israel by juxtaposing analysis of references to him in the Arabic press in Israel with analysis of three surveys among Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel from November 1995 until July 2008. The findings suggest the existence of a latent nostalgia for Rabin's second term as prime minister (1992-1995) as a period when being Israeli looked like a realistic option for Pa…
Calendars, Martyrs, and Palestinian Particularism under British Rule
This article explores how political calendars and shared martyrology provided important markers of identity and symbolic tools for political mobilization in Mandate Palestine. The dates on the emerging Palestinian calendar grew out of the politicization and nationalization of traditional holy days, as well as the commemoration of politically significant events of the period, including those involving local Palestinian martyrs. Commemorative event…
The Quest for Victory
The interdependence of collective memory and national identification has become a widespread scholarly axiom. While the related literature recognizes the role of memories of victimization and heroic victories, this article illustrates the importance of a 'semiotic balance' between these two for the maintenance of national identification. The study is based on an individual-centered quantitative method, which has never been used to investigate the…
Religiosity, National Identity and Legitimacy
This article investigates the relationship between religiosity and contemporary national identities by using Israel as a case study and comparing it to other countries. Survey data from the ISSP 2003 (ZA 3910) module and the Jewish Religious Behaviour in Israel study (2000)1 are used to evaluate the level of national sentiments among people with different degrees of religiosity. It is found that secular Jewish Israelis are significantly less prou…
Cautious Commemoration
In March 1998, the political leadership of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel was looking for ways to commemorate al-Nakba ('The Disaster,' in Arabic), referring to the war of 1948, during which about 700,000 Palestinians were uprooted and hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed. This leadership, organized in the Follow-Up Committee (FUC), nominated a Nakba and Steadfastness Committee (NSC) chaired by the author Muhamad Ali Taha. Amo…
The Sports Column as a Site of Palestinian Nationalism in the 1940s
The sports sections of newspapers embody two cultural patterns whose appearance is chronologically, conceptually and etiologically connected to the emergence of the modern nation state: modern spor
Bridges over Troubled Water
Journal Article Bridges over Troubled Water: A Comparative Study of Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians By Dahlia Moore and Salem Aweiss Praeger, 2004. 237 pages. $97.95 (cloth) Get access Tamir Sorek Tamir Sorek Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 85, Issue 4, June 2007, Pages 1808–1810, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2007.0080 Published: 01 June 2007
Between football and martyrdom
Studies of the relationship between nationalism and localism have brought evidence that these orientations might maintain either relations of opposition or congruence. By conceiving of localism mainly as a strategy, this paper argues that localism can be used alternately as an anchor of nationalist narrativeoras an alternative to nationalism by the exact same community. This argument is illustrated by the case of Sakhnin, an Arab-Palestinian town…
On Hollywood
The orange and the ‘Cross in the Crescent
This article analyses a public discussion held in Palestine during the last months of 1929 over proposals for a particular Palestinian flag. Based on readers' reactions published in the daily newspaperFilastinand on letters sent to the Arab Executive, the article examines the character of Palestinian identity as it was imagined by a certain segment of the Palestinian elite. The three main leitmotifs of the flag proposals – the four colors of the …
Palestinian Nationalism Has Left the Field
This article examines the historical development of Arab–Palestinian soccer under the British Mandate, and then afterward under the State of Israel. It strives to explain why the Arab sporting grandstands—particularly those of soccer—did not become a site for the construction and expression of Palestinian national pride in Israel
More Noble than War
More Noble Than War tells a political story of soccer in Palestine/Israel since the early twentieth century until 2018, in a readable manner that makes the subject accessible for non-experts. The b
Arab football in Israel as an 'integrative enclave
Over the last two decades, football (soccer) has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. The centrality of football has given different identity agents opportunities to impose different meanings on the sport, depending on the agents' definitions of collective identity. This article utilizes ethnographic observation in the football stadium and coverage by Arab and Hebrew sports media to ill…
On Hollywood
Palestinian Nationalism Has Left the Field
This article examines the historical development of Arab–Palestinian soccer under the British Mandate, and then afterward under the State of Israel. It strives to explain why the Arab sporting grandstands—particularly those of soccer—did not become a site for the construction and expression of Palestinian national pride in Israel
Between football and martyrdom
Studies of the relationship between nationalism and localism have brought evidence that these orientations might maintain either relations of opposition or congruence. By conceiving of localism mainly as a strategy, this paper argues that localism can be used alternately as an anchor of nationalist narrativeoras an alternative to nationalism by the exact same community. This argument is illustrated by the case of Sakhnin, an Arab-Palestinian town…
The orange and the ‘Cross in the Crescent
This article analyses a public discussion held in Palestine during the last months of 1929 over proposals for a particular Palestinian flag. Based on readers' reactions published in the daily newspaperFilastinand on letters sent to the Arab Executive, the article examines the character of Palestinian identity as it was imagined by a certain segment of the Palestinian elite. The three main leitmotifs of the flag proposals – the four colors of the …
The Quest for Victory
The interdependence of collective memory and national identification has become a widespread scholarly axiom. While the related literature recognizes the role of memories of victimization and heroic victories, this article illustrates the importance of a 'semiotic balance' between these two for the maintenance of national identification. The study is based on an individual-centered quantitative method, which has never been used to investigate the…
Religiosity, National Identity and Legitimacy
This article investigates the relationship between religiosity and contemporary national identities by using Israel as a case study and comparing it to other countries. Survey data from the ISSP 2003 (ZA 3910) module and the Jewish Religious Behaviour in Israel study (2000)1 are used to evaluate the level of national sentiments among people with different degrees of religiosity. It is found that secular Jewish Israelis are significantly less prou…
Cautious Commemoration
In March 1998, the political leadership of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel was looking for ways to commemorate al-Nakba ('The Disaster,' in Arabic), referring to the war of 1948, during which about 700,000 Palestinians were uprooted and hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed. This leadership, organized in the Follow-Up Committee (FUC), nominated a Nakba and Steadfastness Committee (NSC) chaired by the author Muhamad Ali Taha. Amo…
Divided nations and European integration
The Sports Column as a Site of Palestinian Nationalism in the 1940s
The sports sections of newspapers embody two cultural patterns whose appearance is chronologically, conceptually and etiologically connected to the emergence of the modern nation state: modern spor
Mainstreaming a Genocidal Imagination in Israeli Society
In the past two months, many have come to understand the commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek. Previously, they struggled with the idea – destroying an entire people, including women and ch
The Palestinian Flag Is Back
This article reexamines my argument published in 2007 regarding the apolitical character of Arab soccer fans in Israel. Until recently, explicit political protest and expressions of Palestinian national identity have remained outside the stadium. For most Arab fans, soccer was an opportunity to display common ground with Jewish citizens. Displaying Palestinian nationalism was considered to be endangering the potential for rapprochement. However, …
Calendars, Martyrs, and Palestinian Particularism under British Rule
This article explores how political calendars and shared martyrology provided important markers of identity and symbolic tools for political mobilization in Mandate Palestine. The dates on the emerging Palestinian calendar grew out of the politicization and nationalization of traditional holy days, as well as the commemoration of politically significant events of the period, including those involving local Palestinian martyrs. Commemorative event…
The Islamic Soccer League in Israel
This article strives to use the institutional and discursive strategies employed by the Islamic Movement in Israel in the soccer sphere to illustrate wider theoretical arguments about setting boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in the public sphere. The Islamic Movement uses an isolationist strategy, by creating the independent Islamic Soccer League. In contrast, social agents who strive to promote integration in Israeli society or, alternative…
Palestinian Nationalism Has Left the Field
This article examines the historical development of Arab–Palestinian soccer under the British Mandate, and then afterward under the State of Israel. It strives to explain why the Arab sporting grandstands—particularly those of soccer—did not become a site for the construction and expression of Palestinian national pride in Israel
Arab football in Israel as an 'integrative enclave
Over the last two decades, football (soccer) has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. The centrality of football has given different identity agents opportunities to impose different meanings on the sport, depending on the agents' definitions of collective identity. This article utilizes ethnographic observation in the football stadium and coverage by Arab and Hebrew sports media to ill…
The orange and the ‘Cross in the Crescent
This article analyses a public discussion held in Palestine during the last months of 1929 over proposals for a particular Palestinian flag. Based on readers' reactions published in the daily newspaperFilastinand on letters sent to the Arab Executive, the article examines the character of Palestinian identity as it was imagined by a certain segment of the Palestinian elite. The three main leitmotifs of the flag proposals – the four colors of the …
Between football and martyrdom
Studies of the relationship between nationalism and localism have brought evidence that these orientations might maintain either relations of opposition or congruence. By conceiving of localism mainly as a strategy, this paper argues that localism can be used alternately as an anchor of nationalist narrativeoras an alternative to nationalism by the exact same community. This argument is illustrated by the case of Sakhnin, an Arab-Palestinian town…
On Hollywood
The Sports Column as a Site of Palestinian Nationalism in the 1940s
The sports sections of newspapers embody two cultural patterns whose appearance is chronologically, conceptually and etiologically connected to the emergence of the modern nation state: modern spor
Bridges over Troubled Water
Journal Article Bridges over Troubled Water: A Comparative Study of Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians By Dahlia Moore and Salem Aweiss Praeger, 2004. 237 pages. $97.95 (cloth) Get access Tamir Sorek Tamir Sorek Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 85, Issue 4, June 2007, Pages 1808–1810, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2007.0080 Published: 01 June 2007
Cautious Commemoration
In March 1998, the political leadership of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel was looking for ways to commemorate al-Nakba ('The Disaster,' in Arabic), referring to the war of 1948, during which about 700,000 Palestinians were uprooted and hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed. This leadership, organized in the Follow-Up Committee (FUC), nominated a Nakba and Steadfastness Committee (NSC) chaired by the author Muhamad Ali Taha. Amo…
Religiosity, National Identity and Legitimacy
This article investigates the relationship between religiosity and contemporary national identities by using Israel as a case study and comparing it to other countries. Survey data from the ISSP 2003 (ZA 3910) module and the Jewish Religious Behaviour in Israel study (2000)1 are used to evaluate the level of national sentiments among people with different degrees of religiosity. It is found that secular Jewish Israelis are significantly less prou…
The Quest for Victory
The interdependence of collective memory and national identification has become a widespread scholarly axiom. While the related literature recognizes the role of memories of victimization and heroic victories, this article illustrates the importance of a 'semiotic balance' between these two for the maintenance of national identification. The study is based on an individual-centered quantitative method, which has never been used to investigate the…
Public Silence and Latent Memories
This article examines how Yitzhak Rabin is remembered by Palestinian citizens of Israel by juxtaposing analysis of references to him in the Arabic press in Israel with analysis of three surveys among Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel from November 1995 until July 2008. The findings suggest the existence of a latent nostalgia for Rabin's second term as prime minister (1992-1995) as a period when being Israeli looked like a realistic option for Pa…
Calendars, Martyrs, and Palestinian Particularism under British Rule
This article explores how political calendars and shared martyrology provided important markers of identity and symbolic tools for political mobilization in Mandate Palestine. The dates on the emerging Palestinian calendar grew out of the politicization and nationalization of traditional holy days, as well as the commemoration of politically significant events of the period, including those involving local Palestinian martyrs. Commemorative event…
Divided nations and European integration
The Palestinian Flag Is Back
This article reexamines my argument published in 2007 regarding the apolitical character of Arab soccer fans in Israel. Until recently, explicit political protest and expressions of Palestinian national identity have remained outside the stadium. For most Arab fans, soccer was an opportunity to display common ground with Jewish citizens. Displaying Palestinian nationalism was considered to be endangering the potential for rapprochement. However, …
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Palestinian Commemoration in Israel
Culture and politics in Palestine/Israel
While the scholarly study of culture as a political sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, the articles in this issue highlight some particular understudies aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; the nightclub scene as a field of encounter, appropriation, and exclusion; an analysis of the institutional and political conditions of Palestinian cin…
Benjamin Netanyahu as a mobilizing symbol in ethno-class divisions among Jewish Israelis, 2009–2021
The public discourse over Israel’s unprecedented political crisis in 2019–2021 (four general elections in only two years) has focused on the personality and actions of one person: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Relying on a series of public opinion polls during Netanyahu’s second term (2009–2021), we examine the triadic relationship between the following components: (1) sentiments toward Netanyahu, (2) affiliation with ethno-class Jewish stat…
Monumentos conmemorativos en homenaje a los mártires (1976-1983) & (1998-2013)
En este artículo se plantea la complejidad que exige el análisis de la memoria nacional palestina tras ser interceptada por dos formas de colonialismo occidental; la del Mandato Británico a inicios del siglo XX, y la ocupación israelí que inició en 1948. Con la modernidad occidental colonial llegaron también las instancias de referencia por excelencia para conmemorar la memoria nacional, donde lo palestino no tuvo cabida sino hasta 1976, con la a…
Sports and boycott
The controversy about the campaign to boycott Israel in general and Israeli sports in particular suffers from the absence of empirical data about the political character of the Israeli sports sphere, as well as the way Jewish Israelis see a possible boycott. Supporters of the boycott hope, among other things, that the campaign is registered among Israelis, and maybe even contribute to political change. Liberal opposition relies on the argument th…
Introduction
The settler-colonial paradigm has gained traction in the study of Palestine/Israel in recent years. The current war in Gaza, with the International Court of Justice ruling that a genocide is plausible, has highlighted the pivotal role of settler colonialism as an analytical framework to understand and contextualize the current wave of apocalyptic violence. At the same time, references to settler colonialism have triggered discursive resistance am…
Palestine/Israel Review
Knowledge about Palestine/Israel has long been produced and recruited for multiple contradictory political struggles. The emergence of distinct, counterposed scholarly associations, centers, and publications for Palestine studies and Israel studies reflects a certain set of contemporary political logics and agendas. What is the meaning of this separation? What are its implications for our scholarly understanding of dynamics in Palestine/Israel? C…
More Noble than War
More Noble Than War tells a political story of soccer in Palestine/Israel since the early twentieth century until 2018, in a readable manner that makes the subject accessible for non-experts. The b
The Failed Decolonization of Egyptian Basketball, 1920–1952
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