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היחידה האקדמית שאחראית על הקורס: סוציולוגיה ואנתרופולוגיה

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שפת ההוראה: אנגלית

קמפוס: קרית א"י ספרא

מורה אחראי על הקורס (רכז): מיכל פרנקל

דוא"ל של המורה האחראי על הקורס: michal.frenkel1@mail.huji.ac.il

שעות קבלה של רכז הקורס: שלישי 12:30-13:30 או בתיאום אישי

מורי הקורס:
פרופ מיכל פרנקל

תאור כללי של הקורס:
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שיטת ההוראה בקורס: מקוונת

רשימת נושאים / תכנית הלימודים בקורס:
Topics and Reading
1. Zionism – the ideological roots of Israel's state and society.
Guest lecturer Prof. Shlomo Avineri.

The state of Israel was established in 1948, as the nation state of the Jew-ish people. Yet, many of its current features can be traced back to the Jewish reli-gious longing to return to Zion (or Jerusalem), and to the national political movement known as Zionism. In our first lesson we go back to the origins of the Zionist ideology and the political institutions it generated and examine how they have shaped Israeli society over the years with a special interest in the Zionist vision of Theodor Herzl.

Required readings:

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea - A Historical Analysis and Reader, In-troduction, (1984).

Avineri, Shlomo. "The making of modern Zionism: The intellectual origins of the Jewish state.” Chapter 1 (1984).
2. Building a nation, constructing a memory: on sacred time and space in the Israeli society
Guest lecturer: Prof. Vered Vintzky-Seroussi

Zionism has brought together Jews from different countries, all over the world; Jews who have lived in this territory for genera-tions, and the Arab inhabitants of the land. These groups have dif-fered in their history, national narratives, and vision for the future of the country. They spoke different languages, and told their chil-dren different stories about the things that connect them to the land. This class tells the story of the nation building process and the (partially) successful quest to construct a national identity in this divided society.

Required readings:
Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered. “Jerusalem Assassinated Rabin and Tel Aviv Commemorated Him: Rabin’s Memorials and the Discourse of National Identity in Israel.” City and Society: (1998) 1-21
Elective Reading
Yael, Zerubavel. "Transforming Myths, Contested Narratives: The Reshap-ing of Mnemonic Traditions in Israeli Culture." National Myths: Con-structed Pasts, Contested Presents, Gérard Bouchard (ed.), Londres, Routledge (à paraître) (2013) 173-190

3. Who are the Israelis – Demographic dynamics and their social consequences
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Okun and Dr. Eliyahu Ben Moshe

This session presents the different groups comprising the Israeli society, and the changes in their composition over time. It also presents what had been considered the "demographic problem," and the reasons for the country's high fertility rates.

Required readings:
Requiered
Goldscheider, Calvin. Israeli Society in the 21st Century, Brandeis Univer-sity Press, Chapter 1: "Nation Building, Population and Development”, (2015) 1-16

Elective
Okun, Barbara S. Fertility and marriage behavior in Israel: Diversity, change, and stability, Demographic Research Volume 28, Section 1 (2013): 459-463.

4. Israel's political system
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Gideon Rahat
The Israeli political system reflects the country’s complex social mosaic and contested history. This class provides the foundation for a better understanding of Israel's political system and its insti-tutions.

Required readings:
Rahat, Gideon and Reuven Hazan. “Israel,” in Phillips Shively and Paulette Kurzer (eds.), Comparative Governance. NY: McGraw Hill. (2013)


5. Israel in the Middle East – War and peace

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Elie Podeh

This session will offer a brief historical overview of Israel's place in the Middle East. It tries to highlight the main dynamics, which keep feeding the Jewish-Arab conflict.

Required readings:
Charles Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents. 7 th Ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s (2010)
Elective:
Haim Shaked, “Continuity and Change: An Overview,” in Alvin Z. Rubinstein (ed.), The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Perspectives (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (1991): 191-214.
Daniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon, “Israeli-Jewish Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Evolution, Contents, Functions, and Consequences,” in Robert I. Rotberg (ed.), Israel and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History’s Double Helix Bloomington: Indi-ana University Press, (2006): 19-46

6. Israel as a Jewish state - Can a state be both Jewish and democratic?

Guest Lecturers: Prof. Dan Avnon and Prof. Tamar Elor

The lecture addresses the appellation "Jewish and Democratic State" from a variety of perspectives and disciplines: historical, po-litical, philosophical, and theological ones. A special focus is place on the way gender outplays in the country, given its Jewish nature.

Required readings:

Avnon, Dan."The Israeli Basic Law's (Potentially) Fatal Flaw." Israel Law Review 32:4, (1998): 535-566

Elor Tamar, Chapter 3. "The substantial and the practical" 1in Edu-cated and Ignorant: Ultraorthodox Jewish Women and their World Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Pub (2013): 89-132

7. Jewish-Arab relations in Israel – Conflicts and integration

Guest Lecturers Dr. Yael Berda and Dr. Samira Aliyan
Arab-Palestinian citizens constitute the largest national minority in Israel. Despite the formal and legal integration into the Israeli society of the Arab residents, security concerns and doubts re-garding their loyalty to the new state, have shaped the complex re-lationships between the Arab minority, the Jewish majority, and the state, throughout the years. This class discusses the history of the Arab minority in Israel and its contemporary state

Required Reading:
Robinson, Shira. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State, chapters 1 and 3. Stanford University Press, (2013)‏

Al Haj, Majid. Multiculturalism in deeply divided societies: the Israeli case. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 26 (2002): 169-183.

Elective:

Alayan. Samira. Arab Education in Israel: Lessons from Positive Learning Experiences of Palestinian-Israelis. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival. Routledge. 6 (2012): 214-229.

8. A society of immigrants – multiculturalism and social stratifi-cation
Guest Lecturers: Dr. Talia Sagiv, Prof. Momi Dahan and Prof. Yoram Bilu
Israel is a society of immigrants. It was shaped by waves of Jewish immigration beginning in the late 19th century. At first, most if the immigrants arrived from Eastern and central Europe. After the founding of the state, however, waves of immigrants from the Middle East North Africa have transformed Israel's social and cul-tural fabric. In the following decades, new waves of immigration from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union have continued to add to the social complexity of Jewish society. This class will address the internal cleavages within the Jewish majority in Israel, their socio-economic consequences and the state’s attempts to bridge cultural differences, and close the occupational and educational gaps between the groups. We will specifically focus on how one of those groups - the immigrants from North Africa, have culturally coped with the marginalization they have experienced in Israel through Saints' Impresarios.

Required Reading:
Khazzoom, Aziza. . "The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stig-ma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel." American Sociological Review 68(4). (2003): 481-510.
Dahan, Momi, et al. "Have the gaps in education narrowed? On factors determining eligibility for the Israeli matriculation certificate." On Fac-tors Determining Eligibility for the Israeli Matriculation Certificate (2003).
Bilu, Yoram. “The Sanctification of Space in Israel: Civil Religion and Folk-Judaism.” In: Jews In Israel, U. Rebhun and C. I. Wexman, eds., Hanover: Brandeis University Press, (2004): 371-393.

Elective:
Bilu, Yoram. The Saints' Impresarios. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press (2010).


9. A nation in uniforms – the social consequences of the unend-ing conflict
Guest Lecturer Prof. Edna Lomsky-Feder.

The military in Israel plays a crucial role in the country's politics, economy and society, due to its engagement in an ongoing armed conflict. Military service is universal for Jewish men and women. It is often the front door to the local labor market, allowing the up-ward mobility of some, and the exclusion of others. This lesson will examine the role of the IDF in shaping the Israeli society from two complementary perspectives: the role of the army in shaping gender identities; and its place in the production, reproduction and transformation of the social (ethnic and national) hierarchies.

Required Reading:

Lomsky-Feder, E. and Sasson-Levy, O. "Serving the army as secre-taries: intersectionality, multi-level contract and subjective experi-ence of citizenship." The British Journal of Sociology 66(1). (2015): 173-192.

10. Determinants of voting behavior in Israel

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Tamir Sheafer

This session will address the question of voting in a society so rid-dled with external and internal conflicts, and in a political system offering so many options: "how does the Israeli voter decide?" It will provide both sociological and psychological models of elec-toral behavior, examining the roles of social cleavages and politi-cal communication in determining votes.

Required reading:

Arian, Asher, and Michal Shamir. "A Decade Later, the World Had Changed, the Cleavage Structure Remained Israel 1996—2006." Party Politics 14.6 (2008): 685-705.

Sheafer, Tamir, Gabriel Weimann, and Yariv Tsfati. "Campaigns in the holy land: The content and effects of election news coverage in Israel." The handbook of election news coverage around the world (2008): 209-25.

11. From state-building to neoliberalism: the role of the state in Israel’s economy

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Michael Shalev

This session will present Israel's economy and its transformation from statist centralized economy to a neo-liberal one organized around its leading high-tech industry. It will explore the social consequences of this process in terms of growing inequality and recent social protest.

Required Reading:

Maman, Daniel, and Zeev Rosenhek. "The institutional dynamics of a de-velopmental state: Change and continuity in state–economy relations in Israel." Studies in Comparative International Development 47.3 (2012): 342-363.

12. Is there an Israeli identity?

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Gad Yair

As a young society of immigrants and natives, the development of a relatively coherent and identifiable Israeli identity and culture seemed almost impossible. Yet, many Israelis and foreign com-mentators argue that such a distinct identity has indeed been cre-ated. In this lesson we will explore the swift evolution of an Israeli identity and culture. We will ask what are the origins of this identi-ty and which groups are included (and which groups are marginal-ized) in its construction. We will consider the possibility that the Israeli culture revolves around cultural traumas associated both with the Holocaust and also, more deeply, with the Jewish predic-ament of persecution and exile. An analysis that sees Zionism as the solution for the existential fear that is associated with this col-lective trauma. We will also talk about trauma and its effects in contemporary politics.

Required Readings:

Yair, Gad. "Israeli existential anxiety: cultural trauma and the con-stitution of national character." Social Identities 20.4-5 (2014): 346-362.

Hebrew readers are encouraged to read:
יאיר, גד (2011) צופן הישראליות. ירושלים: כתר

13. Jerusalem, the microcosms of Israeli society – History, politics and everyday life
Guest Lecturers: Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum
Jerusalem is among the most contested cities in the world, charac-terized by an unremitting struggle for territorial control—neighborhood by neighborhood and even house-by-house. Juxta-posing the city history and its complex Geography, this class will tell the story of Jerusalem as a microcosms of the Israeli society and its place in the middle-east.

חומר חובה לקריאה:
Topics and Reading
1. Zionism – the ideological roots of Israel's state and society.
Guest lecturer Prof. Shlomo Avineri.

The state of Israel was established in 1948, as the nation state of the Jew-ish people. Yet, many of its current features can be traced back to the Jewish reli-gious longing to return to Zion (or Jerusalem), and to the national political movement known as Zionism. In our first lesson we go back to the origins of the Zionist ideology and the political institutions it generated and examine how they have shaped Israeli society over the years with a special interest in the Zionist vision of Theodor Herzl.

Required readings:

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea - A Historical Analysis and Reader, In-troduction, (1984).

Avineri, Shlomo. "The making of modern Zionism: The intellectual origins of the Jewish state.” Chapter 1 (1984).
2. Building a nation, constructing a memory: on sacred time and space in the Israeli society
Guest lecturer: Prof. Vered Vintzky-Seroussi

Zionism has brought together Jews from different countries, all over the world; Jews who have lived in this territory for genera-tions, and the Arab inhabitants of the land. These groups have dif-fered in their history, national narratives, and vision for the future of the country. They spoke different languages, and told their chil-dren different stories about the things that connect them to the land. This class tells the story of the nation building process and the (partially) successful quest to construct a national identity in this divided society.

Required readings:
Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered. “Jerusalem Assassinated Rabin and Tel Aviv Commemorated Him: Rabin’s Memorials and the Discourse of National Identity in Israel.” City and Society: (1998) 1-21
Elective Reading
Yael, Zerubavel. "Transforming Myths, Contested Narratives: The Reshap-ing of Mnemonic Traditions in Israeli Culture." National Myths: Con-structed Pasts, Contested Presents, Gérard Bouchard (ed.), Londres, Routledge (à paraître) (2013) 173-190

3. Who are the Israelis – Demographic dynamics and their social consequences
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Barbara Okun and Dr. Eliyahu Ben Moshe

This session presents the different groups comprising the Israeli society, and the changes in their composition over time. It also presents what had been considered the "demographic problem," and the reasons for the country's high fertility rates.

Required readings:
Requiered
Goldscheider, Calvin. Israeli Society in the 21st Century, Brandeis Univer-sity Press, Chapter 1: "Nation Building, Population and Development”, (2015) 1-16

Elective
Okun, Barbara S. Fertility and marriage behavior in Israel: Diversity, change, and stability, Demographic Research Volume 28, Section 1 (2013): 459-463.

4. Israel's political system
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Gideon Rahat
The Israeli political system reflects the country’s complex social mosaic and contested history. This class provides the foundation for a better understanding of Israel's political system and its insti-tutions.

Required readings:
Rahat, Gideon and Reuven Hazan. “Israel,” in Phillips Shively and Paulette Kurzer (eds.), Comparative Governance. NY: McGraw Hill. (2013)


5. Israel in the Middle East – War and peace

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Elie Podeh

This session will offer a brief historical overview of Israel's place in the Middle East. It tries to highlight the main dynamics, which keep feeding the Jewish-Arab conflict.

Required readings:
Charles Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents. 7 th Ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s (2010)
Elective:
Haim Shaked, “Continuity and Change: An Overview,” in Alvin Z. Rubinstein (ed.), The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Perspectives (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, (1991): 191-214.
Daniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon, “Israeli-Jewish Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Evolution, Contents, Functions, and Consequences,” in Robert I. Rotberg (ed.), Israel and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History’s Double Helix Bloomington: Indi-ana University Press, (2006): 19-46

6. Israel as a Jewish state - Can a state be both Jewish and democratic?

Guest Lecturers: Prof. Dan Avnon and Prof. Tamar Elor

The lecture addresses the appellation "Jewish and Democratic State" from a variety of perspectives and disciplines: historical, po-litical, philosophical, and theological ones. A special focus is place on the way gender outplays in the country, given its Jewish nature.

Required readings:

Avnon, Dan."The Israeli Basic Law's (Potentially) Fatal Flaw." Israel Law Review 32:4, (1998): 535-566

Elor Tamar, Chapter 3. "The substantial and the practical" 1in Edu-cated and Ignorant: Ultraorthodox Jewish Women and their World Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Pub (2013): 89-132

7. Jewish-Arab relations in Israel – Conflicts and integration

Guest Lecturers Dr. Yael Berda and Dr. Samira Aliyan
Arab-Palestinian citizens constitute the largest national minority in Israel. Despite the formal and legal integration into the Israeli society of the Arab residents, security concerns and doubts re-garding their loyalty to the new state, have shaped the complex re-lationships between the Arab minority, the Jewish majority, and the state, throughout the years. This class discusses the history of the Arab minority in Israel and its contemporary state

Required Reading:
Robinson, Shira. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State, chapters 1 and 3. Stanford University Press, (2013)‏

Al Haj, Majid. Multiculturalism in deeply divided societies: the Israeli case. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 26 (2002): 169-183.

Elective:

Alayan. Samira. Arab Education in Israel: Lessons from Positive Learning Experiences of Palestinian-Israelis. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival. Routledge. 6 (2012): 214-229.

8. A society of immigrants – multiculturalism and social stratifi-cation
Guest Lecturers: Dr. Talia Sagiv, Prof. Momi Dahan and Prof. Yoram Bilu
Israel is a society of immigrants. It was shaped by waves of Jewish immigration beginning in the late 19th century. At first, most if the immigrants arrived from Eastern and central Europe. After the founding of the state, however, waves of immigrants from the Middle East North Africa have transformed Israel's social and cul-tural fabric. In the following decades, new waves of immigration from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union have continued to add to the social complexity of Jewish society. This class will address the internal cleavages within the Jewish majority in Israel, their socio-economic consequences and the state’s attempts to bridge cultural differences, and close the occupational and educational gaps between the groups. We will specifically focus on how one of those groups - the immigrants from North Africa, have culturally coped with the marginalization they have experienced in Israel through Saints' Impresarios.

Required Reading:
Khazzoom, Aziza. . "The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stig-ma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel." American Sociological Review 68(4). (2003): 481-510.
Dahan, Momi, et al. "Have the gaps in education narrowed? On factors determining eligibility for the Israeli matriculation certificate." On Fac-tors Determining Eligibility for the Israeli Matriculation Certificate (2003).
Bilu, Yoram. “The Sanctification of Space in Israel: Civil Religion and Folk-Judaism.” In: Jews In Israel, U. Rebhun and C. I. Wexman, eds., Hanover: Brandeis University Press, (2004): 371-393.

Elective:
Bilu, Yoram. The Saints' Impresarios. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press (2010).


9. A nation in uniforms – the social consequences of the unend-ing conflict
Guest Lecturer Prof. Edna Lomsky-Feder.

The military in Israel plays a crucial role in the country's politics, economy and society, due to its engagement in an ongoing armed conflict. Military service is universal for Jewish men and women. It is often the front door to the local labor market, allowing the up-ward mobility of some, and the exclusion of others. This lesson will examine the role of the IDF in shaping the Israeli society from two complementary perspectives: the role of the army in shaping gender identities; and its place in the production, reproduction and transformation of the social (ethnic and national) hierarchies.

Required Reading:

Lomsky-Feder, E. and Sasson-Levy, O. "Serving the army as secre-taries: intersectionality, multi-level contract and subjective experi-ence of citizenship." The British Journal of Sociology 66(1). (2015): 173-192.

10. Determinants of voting behavior in Israel

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Tamir Sheafer

This session will address the question of voting in a society so rid-dled with external and internal conflicts, and in a political system offering so many options: "how does the Israeli voter decide?" It will provide both sociological and psychological models of elec-toral behavior, examining the roles of social cleavages and politi-cal communication in determining votes.

Required reading:

Arian, Asher, and Michal Shamir. "A Decade Later, the World Had Changed, the Cleavage Structure Remained Israel 1996—2006." Party Politics 14.6 (2008): 685-705.

Sheafer, Tamir, Gabriel Weimann, and Yariv Tsfati. "Campaigns in the holy land: The content and effects of election news coverage in Israel." The handbook of election news coverage around the world (2008): 209-25.

11. From state-building to neoliberalism: the role of the state in Israel’s economy

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Michael Shalev

This session will present Israel's economy and its transformation from statist centralized economy to a neo-liberal one organized around its leading high-tech industry. It will explore the social consequences of this process in terms of growing inequality and recent social protest.

Required Reading:

Maman, Daniel, and Zeev Rosenhek. "The institutional dynamics of a de-velopmental state: Change and continuity in state–economy relations in Israel." Studies in Comparative International Development 47.3 (2012): 342-363.

12. Is there an Israeli identity?

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Gad Yair

As a young society of immigrants and natives, the development of a relatively coherent and identifiable Israeli identity and culture seemed almost impossible. Yet, many Israelis and foreign com-mentators argue that such a distinct identity has indeed been cre-ated. In this lesson we will explore the swift evolution of an Israeli identity and culture. We will ask what are the origins of this identi-ty and which groups are included (and which groups are marginal-ized) in its construction. We will consider the possibility that the Israeli culture revolves around cultural traumas associated both with the Holocaust and also, more deeply, with the Jewish predic-ament of persecution and exile. An analysis that sees Zionism as the solution for the existential fear that is associated with this col-lective trauma. We will also talk about trauma and its effects in contemporary politics.

Required Readings:

Yair, Gad. "Israeli existential anxiety: cultural trauma and the con-stitution of national character." Social Identities 20.4-5 (2014): 346-362.

Hebrew readers are encouraged to read:
יאיר, גד (2011) צופן הישראליות. ירושלים: כתר

13. Jerusalem, the microcosms of Israeli society – History, politics and everyday life
Guest Lecturers: Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum
Jerusalem is among the most contested cities in the world, charac-terized by an unremitting struggle for territorial control—neighborhood by neighborhood and even house-by-house. Juxta-posing the city history and its complex Geography, this class will tell the story of Jerusalem as a microcosms of the Israeli society and its place in the middle-east.

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