Eliezer Ben‐rafael

Biographic Data

ID3734301
NAMEEliezer Ben‐rafael
GIVEN NAMESEliezer
FAMILY NAMEBen‐rafael
SIGNATUREBEN RAFAEL E
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS189
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • A Sociological Research Program for Linguistic Landscapes

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2023

    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

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2021

    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…

  • Jews and Arabs in Israel: The Cultural Convergence of Divergent Identities

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.CHAPTERLanguage and Communication in…2018

    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…

  • E isenstadt, S.N. (1923–2010)

    Open AccessEliezer Ben‐rafaelOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2018

    S.N. Eisenstadt (born in Warsaw on September 10, 1923; died in Jerusalem on September 2, 2010) was a prominent sociologist who left an impressive legacy. Combining theory with empirical research, he studied societies and civilizations, investigating both the making and the unmaking of social orders, and emphasizing the versatility of societal developments. He explored patterns of entrepreneurship, politics, cultural premises, social conflicts, an…

  • From Multiple Modernities to Multiple Globalizations

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2018

    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 …

  • Kibboutz: Les Risques De La Survie

    Open AccessEliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLESocio2018References: 1

    This article analyses the changes made by the innovative kibbutzim to the founding principles of the kibbutz in order to overcome the dangers of their disappearance. The advantages resulting from these radical measures have rapidly become tangible and have encouraged their spread from kibbutz to kibbutz where on each occasion they have taken specific material configurations. The question is to know whether this development will lead to new horizo…

  • Identity and Language: The Social Insertion of Soviet Jews in Israel

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.CHAPTERImmigration to Israel2017

    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…

  • Social Change: The Contributions of S.N. Eisenstadt

    Open AccessEliezer Ben‐rafael, Yitzhak SternbergOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Social change is a major focus of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's sociological work. It runs as a thread that binds together many of his works, from his earliest studies on the absorption of immigrants and empires, through his explorations of Axial civilizations, up to his later works on multiple modernities. We highlight his major theoretical contributions to social change, including his discussions of the great revolutions. We also point out some subs…

  • Belgian Jews and Neo-Antisemitism

    Open AccessEliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLEContemporary Jewry2017

  • With and beyond Shmuel N. Eisenstadt: Transglobality

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.CHAPTERVarieties of multiple modernities2016

  • Schöneberg: Memorializing the persecution of Jews

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLELinguistic Landscape An…2016

    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…

  • Ethnicity, Sociology of

    Open AccessEliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.CHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Linguistic landscapes in an era of multiple globalizations

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLELinguistic Landscape An…2015

    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 …

  • The Communal Idea in the 21st Century

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.BOOKThe communal idea in the 21st…2013

    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

    Open AccessEliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLERevista Mexicana de Ciencias…2013Cited by: 2References: 26

    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

    Open AccessEliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLECurrent Sociology2013Cited by: 5References: 61

    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

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2012Cited by: 1

    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

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2011

    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

  • World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.BOOKWorld Religions and Multiculturalis…2010

    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

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.BOOKTransnationalism2009

    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

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafael et al.ARTICLELes Cahiers de l Orient2009

    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

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLELes Temps Modernes2009References: 5

  • The Faces of Religiosity in Israel: Cleavages or Continuum

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLEIsrael Studies2008Cited by: 12References: 6

    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…

  • Social Change: The Contributions of S. N. Eisenstadt

    Open AccessEliezer Ben‐rafael, Yitzhak SternbergOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Social change is a major focus of S. N. Eisenstadt's sociological work. It runs as a thread that binds together many of his works, from his earliest studies on absorption of immigrants (1952) and empires (1963), through his explorations in Axial civilizations (see, e.g., 1986), up to his later works about multiple modernities (among others, 2003). A recurring theme in Eisenstadt's work is his emphasis on endemic factors – in‐built tensions, contr…

  • Mizrahi and Russian Challenges to Israel's Dominant Culture: Divergences and Convergences

    Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Eliezer Ben‐rafaelARTICLEIsrael Studies2007Cited by: 7References: 2

    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…