Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel

Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual

Bibliographic Data

ID20012643
AuthorsAziza Khazzoom (corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages360
Publication date2008-03-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueShifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804756976.001.0001
OpenAlexW4237175390
Open LibraryOL11275275M
ISBN9780804756976
LanguageEN
Citations received24

"Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolize scarce resources - good jobs or top educations - for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that racial and ethnic discrimination can also occur to preserve particular group identities." "Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel focuses on the early period of Israeli statehood to examine how the European Jewish founders treated Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants. The author argues that, shaped by their own unique encounter with European colonialism, the European Jews were intent on producing Israel as part of the West. To this end, they excluded and discriminated against those Middle Eastern Jews who threatened the goal of Westernization." "Blending quantitative and qualitative evidence, Aziza Khazzoom provides a compelling rationale for the emergence of ethnic identity and group discrimination, while also suggesting new ways to understand Israeli-Palestinian relations."--BOOK JACKET

Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Mathematics · Anthropology, cultural · Archaeology · ethnic relations · Ethnic Studies · Ethnicity · History · History: World · Identity · Israel · Israeli National characteristics · Jews · Middle East - Israel · Mizrahim · Multiculturalism · National characteristics · Oriental Jews

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