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The Emergence of a Mizrachi Middle Class in Israel

The Struggle of Mizrachi Jews for Mobility, Status, and Prestige

Uri Cohen, Nissim Leon (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

VI, 203 Seiten

2025
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Verlag)
978-3-11-142104-9 (ISBN)

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The Emergence of the Mizrachi Middle Class examines one of the major issues in the sociology of Israel: the story of the Mizrachim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent), a group that has been, and is still, engaged in class-mobility efforts, and is ostensibly closing the gap between itself and the Ashkenazim (Jews of Central and Eastern European extraction). This is one of the most important social processes to have emerged in Israel in recent decades; it is changing the face of the Israeli middle class. While Israeli public discourse depicts this process as a reduction of ethnic and class disparities, the critical analysis offered in this book aims to reveal the issue's tremendous complexity. The academically-educated Mizrachi middle class is an effective social focus for the description and critical analysis of the Mizrachi mobility process, its sources, and the accompanying social unrest. The book shows that Mizrachi mobility was not a continuous progression along orderly mobility routes, but rather a struggle full of mobility traps - a Sisyphean effort to achieve not only economic advancement, but also status and prestige in Israeli society.

Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv University, and Nissim Leon, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2025
Zusatzinfo	9 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/München/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Schlagworte	access to higher education • class culture. • Class struggle • Israelforschung • Klassenkampf • middle class • Mizrachim • Sozialer Aufstieg
ISBN-10	3-11-142104-X / 311142104X
ISBN-13	978-3-11-142104-9 / 9783111421049
Zustand	Neuware