New Israelis

A Wide-ranging Ethnographic-styled Study Of Current Israeli Political-cultural Processes, Dilemmas, And Paradoxes Which Provides Detailed Coverage Of Ongoing Divisive Conflicts, Focusing On Key Topics Such As Shifting Ethnic-group Identities. Aimed At Scholars And Students Of Israeli History And Society, As Well As The Wider Interested Public. Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Imprints Page -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Bones Of Contention: From Warrior To Victim -- Inscribing The Mountain Of Memory -- Skeletons In The Desert -- The Pantheon's Components -- Reconstructing Mount Herzl -- The New Monuments -- Celebrating Aliya And Olim -- The Linking Path -- Mount Herzl And Its Critics -- Fields Of Memory, Alternate Hegemonies, Varied Identities -- Notes -- 2 Ethnicity Matters: Or Does It? -- Where Are Our Children? Who Took Them? -- What The Case Reveals: Ethnicity's Shifting Meanings -- Ethnic Stratification: How Large Are The Gaps? -- Nighttime Selection And Selectors -- Ethnic Festivals, Politics, And The Connections Between Them -- Breaking Through Ethnic Politics -- Ethnicity Today -- Notes -- 3 The New Israeli Minorities -- Non-jewish Jews As 'others' -- The Gatekeepers -- Non-jewish Jews In The Jewish State -- The Ethiopian Jewish Saga -- Immigration And Marginalization -- The Next Generation: Designing New Identities -- Foreign Workers And Asylum Seekers -- African Asylum Seekers -- Gays As A New Minority -- The New Minorities And The Majority -- Notes -- 4 Arabs In The Jewish State -- Arabs As Neighbors? -- Past Towards Present -- From The Nakba To The Present -- Everyday Life Within An Arab Community: ''the Triumph Of The Market Over The State'' -- Entering The System -- Mixed Cities And Mixed Experience -- The Negev Bedouin And The State -- Playing The Game: Arabs, Jews, And Soccer Matches -- Directions, Trends, Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 The Religious Turn -- Backgrounds To Revived Religiosity -- The Haredim: The World Of The God-fearing Jews -- The Learning Society -- Haredim As Israelis -- Religious And Zionist -- Nationalist And Religious -- The Mizrachi Religious Revival: From Traditional To Haredi Lite. Saints' Tombs And Mystical Celebrations -- The Repentance Movement -- Messianic Mystic Movements -- Other Jewish Religious Versions -- Palestinian Fundamentalism: ''islam Is The Answer'' -- Conclusions, Directions -- Notes -- 6 Words And Music: The Hebrew Language And Israeli Popular Music -- Changing Speaking Codes: From 'dugri' To 'kasach' And 'ke'ilu' -- Hebrew Revived And Revised -- Hebrew Culture And Mass Migrations -- Hebrew Gender And Feminism -- Israeli Bilingualism: Hebrew And Arabic -- Popular Music And Popular Culture -- Constructing The Canon: Songs Of The Land Of Israel -- The Music Scene Diversifies: The Emergence Of Israeli Rock -- Musiqa Mizrachit From Margin To Mainstream -- Hip-hop Becomes Israeli -- Other Publics, Other Styles: 'kosher Music' And Israeli-palestinian Rappers -- Trends, Prospects, Conclusions -- Notes -- 7 Conclusions, Today And Tomorrow -- Why Berlin? What Attracts Young Israelis To Berlin? -- Israeli Divisions, Doubts, And Dilemmas -- Haredim As Israelis -- Israeli Palestinians As Israelis -- Notes -- An Epilogue: 2023, Israel's Terrible Fateful Year -- The Conflict Over The Government's Proposed Judicial Reform -- ''black Saturday'' And The War In Gaza -- Reflections And Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Alex Weingrod. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.