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Author Ganim, Asʻad.

Title Ethnic politics in Israel : the margins and the Ashkenazi center / As'ad Ghanem
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages)
Series Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 16
Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 16.
Contents Israel as a hegemonic ethnic state and the politics of group identity -- The Palestinian minority in Israel : resisting the "ethnocratic" system -- Mizrahi (Oriental) Jews and the Ashkenazi system : incorporation vs. separation politics -- Jewish religious groups and the politics of identity in the "secular-Jewish" state -- Russian immigrants : imposing multi-culturalism in the public sphere in Israel -- Groups divisions, the external conflict and political instability in Israel since Oslo -- Conclusion : the future of group politics in Israel
Summary This book offers an analysis on contemporary Israeli democracy, examining in particular society and politics from the perspectives of the different ethnic groups outside of the Ashkenazi mainstream. The book explores the political expressions of the secondary groups in Israel (Mizrahim, Religious, Russians and Palestinian-Arab) and how these groups where treated by the Ashkinazim as a threat to its hegemony over the state. Looking at the instability created by the struggle of these marginal groups against the state, and the discrimination policy practiced by the Ashkenazi 'hegemonic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Israel
Minorities -- Political activity -- Israel
Group identity -- Israel
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
Ethnicity -- Political aspects
Group identity
Minorities -- Political activity
SUBJECT Israel -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
Subject Israel
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009022258
ISBN 9780203865040
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