Harvey E Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 82142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey E Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey E |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Genes and Culture: Thoughts on Methodology and Biological Analogies in Social Theory
The work of S. N. Eisenstadt, as clearly demonstrated in his The Form of Sociology, represents the conviction that there can exist a single social science whose advance as a coherent system of concepts and theories can be recognized. The transmission of culture has been of special interest to the tradition within anthropology once known as "culture and personality". In the realms of both biology and behavior there exists a striking disjunction be…
The Life of Judaism
Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture offers a much-needed addition to more traditional views advanced in the study of Judaism. Through ethnographic and autobiographical perspectives, the e…
I srael, Anthropology in
The first professional work in social and cultural anthropology in Israel began in the 1920s. There were studies of both Palestinian society and Jewish groups, mainly with the purpose of recording lifeways that were disappearing. The idea of including anthropology within the developing Hebrew University of Jerusalem was raised in the 1930s and 1940s but did not materialize at the time. The first formal appearance of anthropology in higher educati…
The sociocultural realm in relation to environment, biology, and history: Notes on Van Gennep and the emerging social sciences of his day
Van Gennep’s research interests were located in the region where the fields of folklore, anthropology, sociology, and religion overlapped. His Rites de passage reflected a broad approach to ritual and social life that took into account the natural environment, biology, and history. This article scans his interests and emphases in relation to the American school of cultural anthropology that developed in the twentieth century. It assesses parallel…
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The Ethnographic Challenge of Masorti Religiosity Among Israeli Jews
Le défi ethnographique de la religiosité masorti parmi les juifs d'Israël L'ethnographie n'a guère porté attention à la vie religieuse des Israéliens appelés masorti - traditionnels - qui résistent à être étiquetés comme « religieux » ou « non religieux ». Diverses rencontres avec des juifs originaires de Lybie, en relation avec la place des femmes dans les rituels publics, montrent la variété des orientations masorti . La vie masorti est aussi m…
The triple loci of Jewish-Maghribi ethnicity: Voluntary associations in Israel and in France
New lines of inquiry are presented concerning ongoing ties between Jews from the Maghrib, who now live in Israel and in France, and their natal lands. These are concretised in the activities of voluntary associations (French: amicales; Hebrew amutot) devoted to preserving the memories of, and in some cases connections to, their former communities. The growth of these associations since the 1950s is outlined, and an analysis of recent developments…
Dynamic belonging: Contemporary Jewish collective identities
Preface Introduction: Dynamic Jewish Identities - Insights from a Comparative View Harvey E. Goldberg Section I: The Fluid Nature of Jewish Belonging Chapter 1. Religion, Ethnic Identity, and the Sense of Belonging Stanley Brandes Chapter 2. Conceptual and Pragmatic Aspects of Binarism: Examples from Israeli Society. Harvey E. Goldberg Chapter 3. From Security to Insecurity: British Jewish Communal Leadership in the Context of Multiculturalism Ke…
Patronage as a Model for Muslim-Jewish Relations in North Africa: Contributions of Anthropological Field Research and a Case from Libya
Historical research on Jewish and Christian minorities within the Muslim world typically refers to the notion of dhimmi in which religious tradition formulates the relations between Muslim rule and subjects. Rulers should protect the life and property of religious minorities, while members of these communities must accept certain restrictions appropriate to their status. During the second half of the 20th century, anthropologists in North Africa …
What goes around, comes around: Rotating credit associations among Ethiopian women in Israel
This article looks at how working-class Ethiopian women, who have migrated to Israel, have sought empowerment and economic control through the establishment of rotating credit associations known as iqqub. In the changing world of Ethiopian Israeli women, iqqub associations and their specific cultural manifestations constitute a highly meaningful experience, whose building-blocks incorporate the financial, the social, the ritualistic, and the symb…
The Oriental and the Orientalist: The Meeting of Mordecai Ha-Cohen and Nahum Slouschz
There has been growing interest in orientalist constructions of Jewish groups. One claim is that orientalist scholars assume the right to speak for those they deem incapable of representing themselves. An opportunity to examine this claim appears in the work of Nahum Slouschz regarding Jews in Libya in the early twentieth century, as his travel in and research on the country were both enmeshed in the work of a local scholar, Mordecai Ha—Cohen, wh…
Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life
Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict
Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict. Sander L. Gilman and Milton Shain. eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.401 pp., tables, index
Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth
Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth. Carol Delaney. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1998.334 pp
Coming of Age in Jewish Studies, or Anthropology Is Counted in the Minyan
L'article est consacre a plusieurs etudes recentes de l'histoire et de la culture juive. Ces etudes portent sur les rites entourant le premier-ne dans le Talmud et le Midrash en se referant a l'anthropologie et sur des rites concernant le garcon tels que la circoncision et le debut de l'etude de la Tora. Sylvie-Anne Goldberg traite des rapports du judaisme au monde qui l'entoure a propos des rites concernant la mort. La vie cultuelle juive est ex…
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and culture in the modern era
Preface Note on Transliteration Interduction by Harvey E. Goldberg Part I: Sephardi and Middle Eastern Communities in the Context of Modern Jewish History 1 Middle Eastern and North African Jewries Confront Modernity: Orientation, Disorientation, Reorientation Norman A. Stillman 2 From Sabbateanism to Modernization: Ottoman Jewry on the Eve of the Ottoman Reforms and the Haskala Jacob Barnai 3 Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the B…
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society . Eliezer Ben-Rafael , Stephen Sharot Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Judaism . Samuel Heilman
The kotel: Toward an ethnographic portrait
An ethnographic portrait of the ‘Western Wall’ (kotel) in Jerusalem, is presented. The kotel is viewed as a pilgrimage site, a ‘place of memory’, and a location linked to a story. Most discussions of the kotel stress its history and archaeology, while this study utilizes ethnography to understand the meanings of the site to a range of social categories. The challenge faced by ethnography is that the social context of the kotel is constituted by J…
Les jeux de Pourim et leurs déclinaisons à Tripoli
Dire que la Bible constitue le texte fondateur de la société juive est une tautologie. Mais cette évidence cache de nombreuses questions. Les textes qui composent la Bible ne sont-ils que le reflet de créations littéraires passées, ou bien le texte biblique est-il devenu, au gré des générations et des pays, une force active qui a modelé la société juive ? Les juifs considéraient les livres bibliques comme constitutifs de leurs institutions et de …
Chetrit, מסורת ומודרניות ביהדות צפון אפריקה וביהדות המזרח
"Romanelli, "Travail in an Arab Land
Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France since 1968. Judith Friedlander
Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives
In 1949 more than 35,000 Jews lived in Libya, but close to ninety percent had left before attained its independence in 1952. Life in Muslim Libya combines historical and anthropological perspectives in depicting the changing relations between Muslims and Jews in from the early nineteenth century up to the middle of the twentieth century. Harvey E. Goldberg shows that the cultural and religious worlds of the Jewish and Muslim communities in were d…
Ghitta Sternberg, Stefanesti. Portrait of a Romanian Shtetl
Anthropology and the Study of Traditional Jewish Societies
The analytic tools of anthropology originally were fashioned on smallscale tribal groups that possessed no written traditions. After World War II, as anthropologists became involved in the study of complex societies in different “developing areas,” the discipline began to relate its findings to the concerns of other fields. Simultaneously, scholars from other social and humanist disciplines, who previously had assumed that anthropologists focused…
The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale
Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives
In 1949 more than 35,000 Jews lived in Libya, but close to ninety percent had left before attained its independence in 1952. Life in Muslim Libya combines historical and anthropological perspectives in depicting the changing relations between Muslims and Jews in from the early nineteenth century up to the middle of the twentieth century. Harvey E. Goldberg shows that the cultural and religious worlds of the Jewish and Muslim communities in were d…
The Mimuna and the Minority Status of Moroccan Jews
Jewish communities throughout Morocco in the recent past marked the end of Passover with the celebration of the mimuna. This springtime festival, which has no clear basis in classic Jewish sources, took on an importance rivaling that of the canonized holidays. The mimuna is clearly a celebration of vernal renewal and blessing, but its origin is vague and its meaning in relation to social context obscure. The present paper is an attempt to interpr…
Judaism Viewed from Within and from Without: Anthropological Studies
Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict
Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict. Sander L. Gilman and Milton Shain. eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.401 pp., tables, index
FBD Marriage and Demography among Tripolitanian Jews in Israel
The Zohar in Southern Morocco: A Study in the Ethnography of Texts
The Ethnographic Challenge of Masorti Religiosity Among Israeli Jews
Le défi ethnographique de la religiosité masorti parmi les juifs d'Israël L'ethnographie n'a guère porté attention à la vie religieuse des Israéliens appelés masorti - traditionnels - qui résistent à être étiquetés comme « religieux » ou « non religieux ». Diverses rencontres avec des juifs originaires de Lybie, en relation avec la place des femmes dans les rituels publics, montrent la variété des orientations masorti . La vie masorti est aussi m…
The Life of Jean Jaures
Anthropology in Israel
Ecologic and Demographic Aspects of Rural Tripolitanian Jewry: 1853–1949
As Libya is the smallest in population of the four Magẖreb countries, so Libyan Jewry was less numerous than those of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Jewish settlement in rural Tripolitania is quite old. A tombstone reportedly found near Tajura dating from the tenth century (Cazés 1890; Slouschz 1927: 11–12) and El-Bekri's eleventh century mention of the Jews of Jado in the Jebel Nefusa (El Bekri 1913: 25) are two of the earliest post-Islamic exam…
Elite Groups in Peasant Communities: A Comparison of Three Middle Eastern Villages1
This paper explores various factors that influence the rigidity of stratification in three Middle Eastern village communities. Analyses of a Lebanese community and a Turkish community have suggested eight factors that influence, both positively and negatively, the rigidity of stratification. These factors concern (1) symbol systems of elite unity, (2) religious legitimation, (3) norms of recruitment to elite status, (4) education and literacy, (5…
The Oriental and the Orientalist: The Meeting of Mordecai Ha-Cohen and Nahum Slouschz
There has been growing interest in orientalist constructions of Jewish groups. One claim is that orientalist scholars assume the right to speak for those they deem incapable of representing themselves. An opportunity to examine this claim appears in the work of Nahum Slouschz regarding Jews in Libya in the early twentieth century, as his travel in and research on the country were both enmeshed in the work of a local scholar, Mordecai Ha—Cohen, wh…
The kotel: Toward an ethnographic portrait
An ethnographic portrait of the ‘Western Wall’ (kotel) in Jerusalem, is presented. The kotel is viewed as a pilgrimage site, a ‘place of memory’, and a location linked to a story. Most discussions of the kotel stress its history and archaeology, while this study utilizes ethnography to understand the meanings of the site to a range of social categories. The challenge faced by ethnography is that the social context of the kotel is constituted by J…
A Program for Disadvantaged Youth in an Israeli Development Town: An Evaluation
The problems of evaluation research on a program tor disadvantaged youth in a development town in Israel are discussed. The program was initiated by an outside agency which did not mesh easily with local politics. Personnel who matched the requirements of the program were not easily found. The distance between the steering committee and the actual organization left important areas of management poorly defined. These same problems were reflected i…
Domestic Organization and Wealth in an Israeli Immigrant Village
Studies in various peasant communities show a relationship between household wealth and household structure. Codification of these findings requires several distinct analytical categories with respect both to "wealth" and to "household structure." Wealth may mean access to any of the factors of agricultural production (land, livestock, labor, capital, etc.), or access to cash income from wage labor. Household structure may mean: (1) demographic s…
The triple loci of Jewish-Maghribi ethnicity: Voluntary associations in Israel and in France
New lines of inquiry are presented concerning ongoing ties between Jews from the Maghrib, who now live in Israel and in France, and their natal lands. These are concretised in the activities of voluntary associations (French: amicales; Hebrew amutot) devoted to preserving the memories of, and in some cases connections to, their former communities. The growth of these associations since the 1950s is outlined, and an analysis of recent developments…
Patronage as a Model for Muslim-Jewish Relations in North Africa: Contributions of Anthropological Field Research and a Case from Libya
Historical research on Jewish and Christian minorities within the Muslim world typically refers to the notion of dhimmi in which religious tradition formulates the relations between Muslim rule and subjects. Rulers should protect the life and property of religious minorities, while members of these communities must accept certain restrictions appropriate to their status. During the second half of the 20th century, anthropologists in North Africa …
Coming of Age in Jewish Studies, or Anthropology Is Counted in the Minyan
L'article est consacre a plusieurs etudes recentes de l'histoire et de la culture juive. Ces etudes portent sur les rites entourant le premier-ne dans le Talmud et le Midrash en se referant a l'anthropologie et sur des rites concernant le garcon tels que la circoncision et le debut de l'etude de la Tora. Sylvie-Anne Goldberg traite des rapports du judaisme au monde qui l'entoure a propos des rites concernant la mort. La vie cultuelle juive est ex…
Les jeux de Pourim et leurs déclinaisons à Tripoli
Dire que la Bible constitue le texte fondateur de la société juive est une tautologie. Mais cette évidence cache de nombreuses questions. Les textes qui composent la Bible ne sont-ils que le reflet de créations littéraires passées, ou bien le texte biblique est-il devenu, au gré des générations et des pays, une force active qui a modelé la société juive ? Les juifs considéraient les livres bibliques comme constitutifs de leurs institutions et de …
Disadvantaged Youngsters and Disparate Definitions of Youth in a Development Town
Jewish-Muslim Religious Rivalry in Tripolitania
There have been various anthropological conceptions concerning cultural minorities in the traditional Middle East. One model, the cultural mosaic (Coon 1958), stresses the cultural and religious autonomy of groups in contrast to their interdependence in the marketplace. Another view emphasizes the dominance of Islamic culture which clearly leaves its imprint on the culturally variant groups in its midst (Patai 1971). Both of these viewpoints are …
Tripolitanian Jewish communities: Cultural Boundaries and Hypothesis-Testing1
Previous studies of rural North African Jewish groups have not directly confronted the problem of the scale of these communities. In reconstructing the culture of Tripolitanian Jewry, which migrated to Israel in 1949, the question of scale is examined by assessing the degree to which the rural communities and Tripoli shared cultural traits. The approach used is that of hypothesis-testing, together with the application of tests of significance
Egalitarianism in an Autocratic Village in Israel
"A Note on Pospisil's "Correlates
Jaurés and the Theory of International Relations
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHarvey GoldbergThe author is an assistant professor of history at Ohio State University
The Growth of Early Socialism
Out of the massive misery of early capitalism and the unfulfilled hopes of industrialism there developed in the first half of the nineteenth century a great upsurge of socialist thought. For the enthusiasts and apologists of unrestrained industrial capitalism, increasing productivity, growing cities, and improved transportation seemed positive evidence of the endless wonders of the new system. But for those sensitive critics who still placed men …
The Myth of the French Peasant
Heywood Broun—Radical Journalist, Part I
In the annals of modern journalism, no other newspaperman surpasses Heywood Broun in devotion and dedication to his craft. And in the record of creative radicalism, no journalist since Steffens even approaches Broun in his inspired use of the great commercial press to criticize, to propose, and to prepare a better life. However gentle his nature or precarious his security, he would not jibe and run. To attack first and equivocate later has been t…
Heywood Broun—Radical Journalist, Part II
The depression of the thirties took the hide off a nation, battered its faith, destroyed its hope. If ever the time was right for a significant redistribution of power, it was now. And no one eclipsed Broun in writing and working for that genuine reconstruction. The Broun of the thirties was dead serious, even more acute, somewhat less genial: "This is no time for jokes. And I was never very good at them anyhow. I don't pretend to be a profound e…
French Socialism and the Congress of London of 1896
(1957). French Socialism and the Congress of London of 1896. The Historian: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 402-424
Jaures and the Formulation of a Socialist Peasant Policy, 1885–1898
On January 8, 1893, the voters in the second electoral district, Department of the Tarn, cast ballots in a partial election of more than local interest. The Marquis de Solages had resigned his seat in the Chamber of Deputies on the previous October 14 during the bitterness generated by the strike against his Carmaux coal company. The socialists of the district, at first with considerable hesitation, nominated as their candidate Jean Jaurés, who h…
French Socialism at the Crossroads
What ails French Socialism? "It is the progressive cléricalisation of the Party; there is clericalism whenever an institution, no matter what it is, becomes an end in itself rather than a way of serving the ideal which gave it life." The Party has become a contented clergy. The national leaders are nothing but cynical politicians; "the exercise of power seems to have consumed and destroyed their personality." Flaunting the ideal of human enlighte…
The Revolutionary Theories of Louis Auguste Blanqui. Alan Spitzer
Janrès and the Carmaux Strikes: The Coal Strike of 1892
Jaurès and the Carmaux Strikes: The Glass Strike of 1895
The Life of Jean Jaures
The Life of Jean Jaures
"A Note on Pospisil's "Correlates
French Communism in the Making, 1914-1924
FBD Marriage and Demography among Tripolitanian Jews in Israel
Elite Groups in Peasant Communities: A Comparison of Three Middle Eastern Villages1
This paper explores various factors that influence the rigidity of stratification in three Middle Eastern village communities. Analyses of a Lebanese community and a Turkish community have suggested eight factors that influence, both positively and negatively, the rigidity of stratification. These factors concern (1) symbol systems of elite unity, (2) religious legitimation, (3) norms of recruitment to elite status, (4) education and literacy, (5…
Egalitarianism in an Autocratic Village in Israel
Domestic Organization and Wealth in an Israeli Immigrant Village
Studies in various peasant communities show a relationship between household wealth and household structure. Codification of these findings requires several distinct analytical categories with respect both to "wealth" and to "household structure." Wealth may mean access to any of the factors of agricultural production (land, livestock, labor, capital, etc.), or access to cash income from wage labor. Household structure may mean: (1) demographic s…
General and Ethnology: Israeli Society. S. N. Eisenstadt
The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale
Jaures et Rappoport
Ethnology: World Without Time: The Bedouin. Edward Nevins and Theon Wright
Ecologic and Demographic Aspects of Rural Tripolitanian Jewry: 1853–1949
As Libya is the smallest in population of the four Magẖreb countries, so Libyan Jewry was less numerous than those of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Jewish settlement in rural Tripolitania is quite old. A tombstone reportedly found near Tajura dating from the tenth century (Cazés 1890; Slouschz 1927: 11–12) and El-Bekri's eleventh century mention of the Jews of Jado in the Jebel Nefusa (El Bekri 1913: 25) are two of the earliest post-Islamic exam…
General and Theoretical: Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior. Helmut SCHOECK. Michael Glenny and Betty Ross, trans
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