Mizrahim in the big city
An inside look at the social and cultural world of middle-class Iraqi immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12709652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Esther Méir-Glitzenstein (0000-0002-9610-7472, The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-142 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5886 • E-ISSN: 1472-5894 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725886.2019.1690807 |
| OpenAlex | W2983049315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
Israeli society in the first decades of statehood is thought of as a dichotomous one, with middle and upper class Ashkenazi Jews on one hand and on the other, lower class immigrants from Muslim countries. Though the emergence of a Mizrahi middle class is associated with the 1970s and 1980s, a deeper look into early-statehood Israel indicates that the ethnic/class dichotomy was already more nuanced in the 1950s. In fact, the social landscape of this period included a group of new Middle Eastern and North African immigrants of urban middle and upper classes, who managed to integrate into Israel's urban middle class. Most of them had come from Iraq. Scholarly discussion on this urban group presents methodological challenges, as documentation regarding it is scant and even rare. The current article concerns a particular sub-group of young middle-class immigrants from Iraq who published a journal documenting their world-view and activities. The article examines the characteristics of this group's integration process, its social and cultural perceptions, guiding aspirations, and dilemmas, placing particular emphasis on the identity and self-representation of these young people
Aesthetics · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Immigration · Middle class · Middle East · Political science · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Upper class · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Bibliography of Recent Works
Israel
Studies In Contemporary Jewry
Continuity and Change in Israeli Society
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The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951
Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel
Zionism in an Arab Country
The Arab Jews
Israeli Democracy Under Stress
Becoming Israeli
The Absorption of Immigrants
Hybridization and Purification
The demographic-social revolution in Israel in the 1950s
The new Mizrahi middle class
Continuity and Change in Israeli Society
The impact of intermarriage on ethnic stratification
Immigrant transit camps ‐ The formation of dependent relations in Israeli society
The Rapid Economic Development of Israel and the Emergence of the Ethnic Division of Labour
The dialectic between modernization and orientalization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |