Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliezer Ben-Rafael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliezer |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Rafael |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-RAFAEL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Sociological Research Program for Linguistic Landscapes
This essay discusses topics pertaining to a sociological research program of linguistic landscapes (LL in the all-following)). We see in linguistic landscapes a major area of symbolization of contemporary urban societies. Unlike the interest shown by sociolinguistic students, until these days, this field has attracted but a few sociologists. We are particularly interested in those spaces that are designated as urban centers, that is, the streets …
Contributing to Next-Society Sociology: Discussing Kibbutz’ Metamorphosis
The formation and evolution of multiculturalism and hybridization (Nederveen Pieterse, 1995; 2016) belong today to the leading research priorities of social sciences. These developments assumedly forward a kind of new or next society features of which seemingly emerge and may be captured in processes taking place in given partial structures. We think especially of subsystems that, at the origin, concretized utopic orientations that were abandoned…
Language & Communication in Israel: Studies of Israeli Society
Jews and Arabs in Israel: The Cultural Convergence of Divergent Identities
This chapter analyses the cultural convergence of Israel's Jews and Arabs in the area of bilingualism. Israel is a setting where Jews and Arabs represent conflicting identities but where Hebrew, the dominant language, Arabic, the minority's official language, and English, the first foreign language, are all diffused— though unevenly— in the majority as well as the minority. The relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel have been generally discus…
From Multiple Modernities to Multiple Globalizations
We draw from Eisenstadt’s (2002) conceptualization of multiple modernities which he proposed to analyze processes marking modernity and their different versions in contemporary societies. These processes do not delete all pre-existing orientations, value affinities and social arrangements, and while modernity is recognizable everywhere, modern societies also differ at other respects. We formulate a similar contention for globalization. We point …
Identity and Language: The Social Insertion of Soviet Jews in Israel
This chapter focuses on Soviet Jews (SJs') insertion into Israeli society, with special reference to identity, language and community. It explores SJs' attitudes and perceptions of their collective identity in light of the new identities offered by the absorbing society. The chapter looks at the stratificational features of the immigrants and the dominant culture's attitudes toward them. It also focuses on the socio-cultural insertion of SJs, wit…
Belgian Jews and Neo-Antisemitism
With and beyond Shmuel N. Eisenstadt: Transglobality
Schöneberg: Memorializing the persecution of Jews
This paper is about the 80 diptychs affixed to lampposts in the Bayerische Viertel (Bavarian Quarter) of Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood, that memorialize the persecution of Germany’s Jewry. This study draws its research interests from the sociology of memory, monument scholarship, and the socio-historical study of mass persecution. It explores how far the LL objects can be considered part of LL’s configuration of an area; what interests motivat…
Handbook of Israel: Major Debates
The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism, democracy and religion, (in)equality, colonialism, today’s criticism of Israel, Israel-Diaspora relations, and peace programs. Outstanding scholars f…
Ethnicity, Sociology of
Linguistic landscapes in an era of multiple globalizations
This paper focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. These spaces consist of numberless establishments riddled with versatile texts or ‘LL items’. They are foci of both the development of globalization that conquers the world through commercial globe-encompassing networks, and of massive migrations from underprivileged countries to privileged ones. In each such city, one distinguishes major ‘downtowns’ and secondary ones in …
Confronting Allosemitism in Europe: The Case of Belgian Jews
Only a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the cases investigated, the Belgian Jewry is one of the most interesting. It is both versatile and representative, revealing essential components of the genera…
Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations
In this era of globalization, Jewish diversity is marked more than ever by transnational expansion of competing movements and local influences on specific conditions. One factor that still makes Jewish communities one is the common reference to Israel. Today, however, differentiations and discrepancies in identification and behavior generate plurality and ambiguities about Israel-Diaspora relationships. Moreover the Judeophobia now rife in Europe…
The Communal Idea in the 21st Century
The idea of a better society as associated with the communal idea is investigated from both theoretical perspectives and through contemporary experiences around the world. This idea leaves nobody indifferent. Whatever the hardship that its concretization implies, however, once it does materialize, it cannot, as such avoid new challenges, tensions and unexpected claims. This means, at varying degrees, negations of, and removals from, the “utopian …
Las diásporas transnacionales: Una Nueva Era O Un Nuevo Mito
The number less unprecedented situations attached today to the concept of transnational diaspora arise the debate of whether or not this phenomenon signals a new era. Our own contention is that it does represent a factor of new kinds of heterogenization of both the societal reality and of the diasporas themselves, as worldwide entities. It is in this dialectic perspective that we describe transnational diasporas as causes of discontinuity in our …
Diaspora
Contemporary diasporas are studied from many different perspectives. One widely acknowledged aspect is their capacity to illustrate dual homeness, and their challenging national cultures' aspiration to sociocultural unity. Insertion into new societies tends today to erode the singularity of diasporic communities, but the symbols they retain or create may still warrant cultural reproduction as transnational entities. The conceptual distinction bet…
Latino Migrants in the Jewish State: Undocumented Lives in Israel
Barak Kalir, LATINO MIGRANTS IN THE JEWISH STATE: UNDOCUMENTED LIVES IN ISRAEL, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indian University Press, 2010, 262 pp., $24.95 (paper) This book belongs to the new lit...
Transnational Diasporas: A New Era or a New Myth
The numberless unprecedented situations attached today to the concept of transnational diaspora arise the debate of whether or not this phenomenon signals a new era. Our own contention is that it does represent a factor of new kinds of heterogenization of both the societal reality and of the diasporas themselves, as worldwide entities
Linguistic Landscape in the City
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.
World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation
This book is about new forms of religiosity and religious activity emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only toward change and reforms, but also toward new conflicts between and within them. This process should remind us of the Jewish legend of the…
Transnationalism: Diasporas and the Advent of a New (Dis)order
This book deals with transnationalism and captures its singularity as a generalized phenomenon. The profusion of transnational communities is a factor of fluidity in social orders and represents confrontations between contingencies and basic socio-cultural drives. It has created a new era different from the past at essential respects
Qui sont les Israéliens
Constituée de vagues successives d’immigration et de citoyens issus de contextes historiques et sociaux différents, comment se forge l’identité nationale israélienne
Israël: Ethnicités Juives Et Unité Nationale
The Faces of Religiosity in Israel: Cleavages or Continuum
This article investigates the dynamics of the relations between religiosity categories as they play out in Israeli society. It begins with an overview of the considerations that frame our approach, and turns to an analysis of macro sociocultural and political aspects pertaining to the basic problématiques illustrated by the ultra-Orthodox, religious, and traditional categories vis-à-vis the non-religious who represent the upholders of the dominan…
The Faces of Religiosity in Israel: Cleavages or Continuum
This article investigates the dynamics of the relations between religiosity categories as they play out in Israeli society. It begins with an overview of the considerations that frame our approach, and turns to an analysis of macro sociocultural and political aspects pertaining to the basic problématiques illustrated by the ultra-Orthodox, religious, and traditional categories vis-à-vis the non-religious who represent the upholders of the dominan…
Mizrahi and Russian Challenges to Israel's Dominant Culture: Divergences and Convergences
This article considers, in the context of Israel's dominant culture, the divergences and convergences of collective-identity formulations among veteran Mizrahi communities and Russian-speaking Jews (RSJs) of recent arrival. This work draws from empirical evidence collected recently and asks about the kind of multicultural reality that those populations contribute to Israeli society. These populations arrived during different periods and found ver…
A Sociological Study of Second Language Diffusion: The Obstacles to Arabic Teaching in the Israeli School
Sociologia studo de dualingva disvastigo: la obstakloj al instruado de la araba lingvo en israelaj lernejoj Multan gravecon oni donis al studado de dualingva akirado (DLA). Tamen, dum DLA fokusigas je la malfacilajoj, kiujn renkontas unuopa lemanto survoje al lingva kompetento, gi ne konsideras, nek celas konsideri, la motivojn de lernantoj, nek la disvastigon de tiuj motivoj ene de socio kaj inter sociaj kategorioj. Lingvaj sociologoj ja esplori…
Diaspora
Contemporary diasporas are studied from many different perspectives. One widely acknowledged aspect is their capacity to illustrate dual homeness, and their challenging national cultures' aspiration to sociocultural unity. Insertion into new societies tends today to erode the singularity of diasporic communities, but the symbols they retain or create may still warrant cultural reproduction as transnational entities. The conceptual distinction bet…
The Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Identification
Secularization and the Diminishing Decline of Religion
Las diásporas transnacionales: Una Nueva Era O Un Nuevo Mito
The number less unprecedented situations attached today to the concept of transnational diaspora arise the debate of whether or not this phenomenon signals a new era. Our own contention is that it does represent a factor of new kinds of heterogenization of both the societal reality and of the diasporas themselves, as worldwide entities. It is in this dialectic perspective that we describe transnational diasporas as causes of discontinuity in our …
Language, Identity, and Social Division: The Case of Israel
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship: The Case of Israel
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 …
The reconstitution of the family in the kibbutz
Since the mid-1960s, and with growing intensity in the 1970s, there has been an increasing sense throughout the Western world that the institution of the nuclear family has entered a state of crisis. By 'crisis' we mean that increasing numbers of people in and out of families have been questioning the legitimacy of this institution, its necessity, and the soundness of the claims it makes on most of us
Latino Migrants in the Jewish State: Undocumented Lives in Israel
Barak Kalir, LATINO MIGRANTS IN THE JEWISH STATE: UNDOCUMENTED LIVES IN ISRAEL, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indian University Press, 2010, 262 pp., $24.95 (paper) This book belongs to the new lit...
Where stands Israel
Symbole d'identité ou capital symbolique: Le parcours social du français en Israël
Ben-Rafaël Eliezer, Herzlich Rivka, Freund Mira. Symbole d'identité ou capital symbolique : le parcours social du français en Israël. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1990, 31-2. pp. 315-329
The Emergence of Ethnicity: Cultural Groups and Social Conflict in Israel
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The Emergence of Ethnicity: Cultural Groups and Social Conflict in Israel
The reconstitution of the family in the kibbutz
Since the mid-1960s, and with growing intensity in the 1970s, there has been an increasing sense throughout the Western world that the institution of the nuclear family has entered a state of crisis. By 'crisis' we mean that increasing numbers of people in and out of families have been questioning the legitimacy of this institution, its necessity, and the soundness of the claims it makes on most of us
The Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Identification
Secularization and the Diminishing Decline of Religion
Le conflit de guérilla: Une Approche Sociologique
A quelles conditions se forme puis se développe un mouvement de guérilla ? L'auteur, en illustrant constamment son propos par une comparaison qui porte sur quatre expériences historiques (Indochine , Algérie, Chypre et Cuba) examine non pas tant l'acteur lui-même que son adversaire. Il distingue quatre «profils» pour les régimes ayant à mener une lutte antiguérilla, et en déduit les caractéristiques que prend, pour chacun d'eux, l'action de guéri…
Israel-Palestine: A Guerrilla Conflict in International Politics
This analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers a wide-ranging theoretical framework to approach various aspects of terrorism, guerilla and antiguerilla warfare, the peace process, and other complex issues. The distinction between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that of the Jewish State and its neighbors has been neglected in past writings. The author suggests that this distinction is the key to understanding not only the extent of …
Ethnicity, Class and Friendship: The Case of Israel
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 …
Status, Power and Conflict in the Kibbutz
Symbole d'identité ou capital symbolique: Le parcours social du français en Israël
Ben-Rafaël Eliezer, Herzlich Rivka, Freund Mira. Symbole d'identité ou capital symbolique : le parcours social du français en Israël. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1990, 31-2. pp. 315-329
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society
This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous…
A Sociological Study of Second Language Diffusion: The Obstacles to Arabic Teaching in the Israeli School
Sociologia studo de dualingva disvastigo: la obstakloj al instruado de la araba lingvo en israelaj lernejoj Multan gravecon oni donis al studado de dualingva akirado (DLA). Tamen, dum DLA fokusigas je la malfacilajoj, kiujn renkontas unuopa lemanto survoje al lingva kompetento, gi ne konsideras, nek celas konsideri, la motivojn de lernantoj, nek la disvastigon de tiuj motivoj ene de socio kaj inter sociaj kategorioj. Lingvaj sociologoj ja esplori…
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society
Israeli Students’ Discourse about Europe
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society
Journal Article Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society, by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Stephen Sharot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 287 pp. $39.50 Get access Eugen Schoenfeld Eugen Schoenfeld Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711133 Published: 01 July 1992
Language, Identity, and Social Division: The Case Of Israel
The shift to Hebrew as a national language is at the root of the creation of Israel, yet many Jewish former immigrants still use the language of their country of origin. Ultra-orthodox communities retain their own codes, and the use of Arabic remains a clear marker of the Israeli-Arab town and village. At the same time Israel's position in international affairs has encouraged a wide penetration of the society, along class lines, by languages of w…
The holocaust: Brief comments on recent books
Language, Identity, and Social Division: The Case of Israel
Critical Versus Non-critical Sociology: An Evaluation
Arab citizenship in Israel
Analyzing Our Time: A Sociological ProblÉmatique
Identity, Culture and Globalization: The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology – Volume 8
This book is about contemporary sociological analysis: its discussions, contradictions and controversies. Authors from various backgrounds discuss developments on all continents. The 34 contributions are centered on six themes. The first is multiple modernities, showing us that there is no single road to the modernization of societies. The second theme is globalization, with new concepts like spatialization, world languages and new social movemen…
Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion
Who and what is a Jew? Is there any common denominator between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of an Israeli North African community and a Berkeley academic of the Movement for a Secular and Humanistic Judaism? Do Jews the world over convergre and emphasize their unity or do they share contrasting concepts of collective identity? Part I of this book presents a systematic discussion of Jewish identities in this era of (post)modernity. The opportunity is o…
Ron Kuzar? Hebrew and Zionism: A Discourse Analytic Cultural Study
Sociology and Ideology
When examining how the social sciences have dealt with ideology, one's first impression is often one of considerable confusion. Sociology in particular is the scene of heated debates about ideology. These debates go sometimes so far as to echo doubts of participants with regard to their opponents’ scientific endeavor, even straightforward denials of their scientific status. This volume brings together a series of articles that throw light on sele…
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