Alex Weingrod
Biographic Data
| ID | 95748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Weingrod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Weingrod |
| SIGNATURE | WEINGROD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The New Israelis: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism
Following successive immigration waves, the military occupation of the West Bank and the emergence of a high-tech based economy, Israeli society has become increasingly complex and divided. In this timely study, Alex Weingrod utilizes ground-breaking ethnographic research to unpack Israel's diverse communities and cultures, arguing that there are several different versions of “being Israeli” that influence and contest with one another. Covering a…
Studies Israeli Ethnicity: After the Ingathering
The Two Israels Revisited
The Two Israels Revisited Alex Weingrod (bio) In April 1962, I published an article called "The Two Israels" in Commentary Magazine. Commentary then was a liberal intellectual journal of politics and culture that featured Jewish-related topics (it later morphed into a brash voice of neo-con ideology). My article centered on the complex, often harsh relationships between the established European-origin Israelis (the First Israel) and the hundreds …
Responses
Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem
The new Israeli sociologies: Designing the new orthodoxy
Written from a “critical perspective”, four new sociologies of Israel have recently been published. This article critically reviews the strengths and weaknesses of these new books, as well as the “new orthodoxy” that they propose with regard to Israel's past and present. Keywords: Israelcritical sociologyIsrael-Palestinian conflictethnic stratificationIsrael and globalization Notes 1. How and why Israeli sociology developed as it did is discussed…
Paradoxes of Homecoming: The Jews and Their Diasporas
Introduction There can be little doubt that the paradigm has firmly entered into the contemporary social-science vocabulary. It influences the ways in which many social scientists, historians, as well as the variety of media specialists, presently conceptualize critical features of the modern world. According to the paradigm, attention is focused upon groups that migrated or were driven from their native land (the homeland), and subsequently foun…
Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places
This collection focuses fresh attention on the relationships between "homeland" and "diaspora" communities in today's world. Based on in-depth anthropological studies by leading scholars in the field, the book highlights the changing character of homeland-diaspora ties. Homelands and Diasporas offers new understandings of the issues that these communities face and explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical, interactions. T…
Key Informants on the History of Anthropology: Anthropology in a Stormy Pond
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practiced today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Alex Weingrod traces the beginnings of anthropology in Israel half a century ago and compares the very different conditions for fieldwork in the countr…
Ehud Barak's Apology: Letters From the Israeli Press
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER OF 1997, the Israeli Labor Party held an unusual Convention in the Negev town ofNetivot. It was Ehud Barak's idea that the meeting be held in a peripheral development town like Netivot rather then in Tel-Aviv or Jerusalem. Barak, who was the former Chief-of-Staff of the Israeli army, had been elected Chairman of the Labor Party four months earlier, and he wanted to use the occasion to make a dramatic announcement that would her…
Living Along the Seam: Israeli Palestinians in Jerusalem
Deeply divided between opposing national, religious, and ethnic groups, contemporary Jerusalem is a paradigm of urban heterogeneity and dichotomous identities. The social divisions that split Jerusalem are many and deep; to list the more obvious lines of fragmentation, this small city of about a half-million persons includes Muslims, Christians, and Jews; secular and ultra-orthodox Jews; Palestinian refugees; peasants; and old established Jerusal…
How Israeli Culture Was Constructed: Memory, History and the Israeli Past
IS THERE A MORE POPULAR pair of terms in social science these days than "memory" and "history"? Probably not; they appear endlessly in the titles of books and articles written in elds such as history, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and among specialists in culture. History presumably refers to what is undeniably known about the past, whereas "collective memory" and "personal memory" emphasizes how the past is shaped or constructed i…
Dry Bones: Nationalism and Symbolism in Contemporary Israel
Plusieurs evenements ont concerne la sacralite des os en Israel. Os et enterrement sont au centre de l'ideologie religieuse juive et nationaliste. Ils servent a relier le passe au present et sont donc parfois l'objet de conflit entre les Zelotes et les archeologues qui defendent chacun leur domaine
Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem
Changing Israeli Landscapes: Buildings and the Uses of the Past
Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem
Celtic Ethnic Kinship and the Problem of Being English [and Comments and Replies]
Breton, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic are all "Celtic" languages. The definition of certain languages as "Celtic" is widely taken to imply a distinct category of people, the Celts, who have ties of language, culture, and flesh and blood, and who share a common external subjection which has largely destroyed their culture and their language and the people themselves. This paper attempts a structural, ethnographic account of t…
The effect of cultural conceptions on therapy: A comparative study of patients in Israeli psychiatric clinics
Continuity and Change: A Study of Two Ethnic Communities in Israel.Rita James Simon
Rashomon in Jerusalem: Ideology and Power in an Urban Dispute
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Industrial Involution in Sardinia1
This article analyzes recent changes in Sardinia in terms of the concept of involution. Involution refers to a process of change in which there is continuous elaboration within a pattern, while the pattern itself remains fixed. Involutionary processes within Sardinian agriculture, commerce, and the government bureaucracies are systematically analyzed. Thus, for example, traditional agricultural patterns have been increasingly elaborated, small sc…
Recent trends in Israeli ethnicity
Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite
Based upon data collected by means of a mailed questionnaire, this article examines the widely held assumption that "everyone knows everyone else" within the compact Israeli national elite. Data were collected on acquaintanceships among political, bureaucratic, economic, professional, academic, and cultural-artistic elites. The elites tend to be drawn from among the European-origin well educated minorities, although such features as kinship, scho…
Differentiation and Co-Operation in an Israeli Veteran Moshav . Elaine Baldwin. ; Family and Community in the Kibbutz . Yonina Talmon
Immigrant Voters in Israel: Parties and Congregations in a Local Election Campaign. Shlomo A. Deshen
Patrons, Patronage, and Political Parties
What is meant by "patronage"? The term appears with increased frequency in anthropological analysis. Indeed, it has become a major concept in the study of peasant societies, somewhat analogous to the concept of the "big man" in certain kinds of chiefdoms, or "fission and fusion" in lineage-type societies. There is, however, considerable ambiguity in the meaning given to the term. Consider, as examples, the following three excerpts from recent ant…
Recent trends in Israeli ethnicity
Celtic Ethnic Kinship and the Problem of Being English [and Comments and Replies]
Breton, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic are all "Celtic" languages. The definition of certain languages as "Celtic" is widely taken to imply a distinct category of people, the Celts, who have ties of language, culture, and flesh and blood, and who share a common external subjection which has largely destroyed their culture and their language and the people themselves. This paper attempts a structural, ethnographic account of t…
Post Peasants: The Character of Contemporary Sardinian Society
Considerable attention has recently been given to depicting the present-day conditions of rural life in developing and industrializing states. Anthropologists have begun to doubt whether the familiar term 'peasant society' adequately represents those rural groups that are increasingly linked with an urban-based industrial economy and society. A number of alternate terms and constructs have lately been suggested. For example, in a recent article E…
Reluctant Pioneers: Village Development in Israel
Reciprocal Change: A Case Study of a Moroccan Immigrant Village in Israel1
Changing Israeli Landscapes: Buildings and the Uses of the Past
Paradoxes of Homecoming: The Jews and Their Diasporas
Introduction There can be little doubt that the paradigm has firmly entered into the contemporary social-science vocabulary. It influences the ways in which many social scientists, historians, as well as the variety of media specialists, presently conceptualize critical features of the modern world. According to the paradigm, attention is focused upon groups that migrated or were driven from their native land (the homeland), and subsequently foun…
Administered Communities: Some Characteristics of New Immigrant Villages in Israel
Dry Bones: Nationalism and Symbolism in Contemporary Israel
Plusieurs evenements ont concerne la sacralite des os en Israel. Os et enterrement sont au centre de l'ideologie religieuse juive et nationaliste. Ils servent a relier le passe au present et sont donc parfois l'objet de conflit entre les Zelotes et les archeologues qui defendent chacun leur domaine
Living Along the Seam: Israeli Palestinians in Jerusalem
Deeply divided between opposing national, religious, and ethnic groups, contemporary Jerusalem is a paradigm of urban heterogeneity and dichotomous identities. The social divisions that split Jerusalem are many and deep; to list the more obvious lines of fragmentation, this small city of about a half-million persons includes Muslims, Christians, and Jews; secular and ultra-orthodox Jews; Palestinian refugees; peasants; and old established Jerusal…
Key Informants on the History of Anthropology: Anthropology in a Stormy Pond
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practiced today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Alex Weingrod traces the beginnings of anthropology in Israel half a century ago and compares the very different conditions for fieldwork in the countr…
How Israeli Culture Was Constructed: Memory, History and the Israeli Past
IS THERE A MORE POPULAR pair of terms in social science these days than "memory" and "history"? Probably not; they appear endlessly in the titles of books and articles written in elds such as history, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and among specialists in culture. History presumably refers to what is undeniably known about the past, whereas "collective memory" and "personal memory" emphasizes how the past is shaped or constructed i…
Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite
Based upon data collected by means of a mailed questionnaire, this article examines the widely held assumption that "everyone knows everyone else" within the compact Israeli national elite. Data were collected on acquaintanceships among political, bureaucratic, economic, professional, academic, and cultural-artistic elites. The elites tend to be drawn from among the European-origin well educated minorities, although such features as kinship, scho…
The Role of the Fieldworker in an Explosive Political Situation [and Comments and Reply]
Rashomon in Jerusalem: Ideology and Power in an Urban Dispute
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
Industrial Involution in Sardinia1
This article analyzes recent changes in Sardinia in terms of the concept of involution. Involution refers to a process of change in which there is continuous elaboration within a pattern, while the pattern itself remains fixed. Involutionary processes within Sardinian agriculture, commerce, and the government bureaucracies are systematically analyzed. Thus, for example, traditional agricultural patterns have been increasingly elaborated, small sc…
Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem
Political Sociology, Social Anthropology and the Study of New Nations
O n I nterpreting C hange: A R eply to M ilton J acobs 1
Administered Communities: Some Characteristics of New Immigrant Villages in Israel
Reciprocal Change: A Case Study of a Moroccan Immigrant Village in Israel1
O n I nterpreting C hange: A R eply to M ilton J acobs 1
The Role of the Fieldworker in an Explosive Political Situation [and Comments and Reply]
Political Sociology, Social Anthropology and the Study of New Nations
Reluctant Pioneers: Village Development in Israel
Reluctant Pioneers: Village Development in Israel
Patrons, Patronage, and Political Parties
What is meant by "patronage"? The term appears with increased frequency in anthropological analysis. Indeed, it has become a major concept in the study of peasant societies, somewhat analogous to the concept of the "big man" in certain kinds of chiefdoms, or "fission and fusion" in lineage-type societies. There is, however, considerable ambiguity in the meaning given to the term. Consider, as examples, the following three excerpts from recent ant…
Post Peasants: The Character of Contemporary Sardinian Society
Considerable attention has recently been given to depicting the present-day conditions of rural life in developing and industrializing states. Anthropologists have begun to doubt whether the familiar term 'peasant society' adequately represents those rural groups that are increasingly linked with an urban-based industrial economy and society. A number of alternate terms and constructs have lately been suggested. For example, in a recent article E…
Immigrant Voters in Israel: Parties and Congregations in a Local Election Campaign. Shlomo A. Deshen
II Banditismo in Sardegna: La vendetta barbaricina come ordinamento giuridico. Antonio Pigliaru
Development and Change: Peasants in Cities: Readings in the Anthropology of Urbanization. William M Angin
Differentiation and Co-Operation in an Israeli Veteran Moshav . Elaine Baldwin. ; Family and Community in the Kibbutz . Yonina Talmon
Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite
Based upon data collected by means of a mailed questionnaire, this article examines the widely held assumption that "everyone knows everyone else" within the compact Israeli national elite. Data were collected on acquaintanceships among political, bureaucratic, economic, professional, academic, and cultural-artistic elites. The elites tend to be drawn from among the European-origin well educated minorities, although such features as kinship, scho…
Industrial Involution in Sardinia1
This article analyzes recent changes in Sardinia in terms of the concept of involution. Involution refers to a process of change in which there is continuous elaboration within a pattern, while the pattern itself remains fixed. Involutionary processes within Sardinian agriculture, commerce, and the government bureaucracies are systematically analyzed. Thus, for example, traditional agricultural patterns have been increasingly elaborated, small sc…
Recent trends in Israeli ethnicity
Rashomon in Jerusalem: Ideology and Power in an Urban Dispute
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
Continuity and Change: A Study of Two Ethnic Communities in Israel.Rita James Simon
The effect of cultural conceptions on therapy: A comparative study of patients in Israeli psychiatric clinics
Celtic Ethnic Kinship and the Problem of Being English [and Comments and Replies]
Breton, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic are all "Celtic" languages. The definition of certain languages as "Celtic" is widely taken to imply a distinct category of people, the Celts, who have ties of language, culture, and flesh and blood, and who share a common external subjection which has largely destroyed their culture and their language and the people themselves. This paper attempts a structural, ethnographic account of t…
Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem
Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem
Changing Israeli Landscapes: Buildings and the Uses of the Past
Dry Bones: Nationalism and Symbolism in Contemporary Israel
Plusieurs evenements ont concerne la sacralite des os en Israel. Os et enterrement sont au centre de l'ideologie religieuse juive et nationaliste. Ils servent a relier le passe au present et sont donc parfois l'objet de conflit entre les Zelotes et les archeologues qui defendent chacun leur domaine
How Israeli Culture Was Constructed: Memory, History and the Israeli Past
IS THERE A MORE POPULAR pair of terms in social science these days than "memory" and "history"? Probably not; they appear endlessly in the titles of books and articles written in elds such as history, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and among specialists in culture. History presumably refers to what is undeniably known about the past, whereas "collective memory" and "personal memory" emphasizes how the past is shaped or constructed i…
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (23 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (21 works) · History (20 works) · Law (15 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (8 works)