Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel

Khazzoom, Aziza

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“…Mechanisms of hybridization are accompanied by shifting boundaries [13] and the potential rapprochement between ''strangers'' or ''others.'' This perspective is not congruent with the rigorous dichotomy and differentiation between Mizrachi and Ashkenazi, women and men, high and low class, veterans and newcomers and so on.…”

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Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and Class: Oriental Faculty Women in Israel

Toren

2009

Gend. Issues

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Ethnicity, gender and class are the major factors of social inequality and have been studied extensively leading to a large literature pertaining to each one of them. The issue of the intersection of ethnicity, gender and class has been introduced into the social sciences by feminist critical theory. Intersection theory postulates that minority groups are discriminated against on the basis of more than one characteristic which are ''inextricably tied'' leading to complex forms of inequality in various social domains. This study examines the intertwined effects of these factors as they are experienced and narrated by Mizrachi women (19) who are employed in universities and colleges. Although the intersection approach is generally supported by the data it was found that under certain conditions ethnicity, gender and class may be separated. One type of decomposition is when one identity encroaches upon another or others; the second is the separation of diverse identities assigning them to different life areas. These change processes do not support stereotypical dichotomies between Ashkenazi and Mizrachi, women and men and so on, and enable the creation of new hybrid identities.

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Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and Class: Oriental Faculty Women in Israel

Toren

2009

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“…As was evidenced in many of the narratives, memories of their parents' experiences of arriving in Israel as immigrants and memories of the hardships, the humiliation, and the sense of dislocation were strong. Moreover, extensive research has pointed to the lingering social and economic effects of the initial discriminatory absorption of these immigrants and the difficulties of the second and, even, the third generation of Mizrahi Jews to compete equally within Israeli society (Khazzoom, 2008). For most of the interviewees, including those whose families were recognised as Holocaust survivors, the identity as second and third “generation” was focused less on the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma as it was on the intergenerational transmission of immigration hardships.…”

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“…The bulk of the Mizrahi Jewish segment of the Jewish population immigrated to Israel in the 1950s to early 1960s, following the establishment of the State more than a decade earlier. By that time, the main political, economic, social, and cultural institutions of Israel had already been established by previous waves of immigration—largely, if not exclusively—from Europe and consisting of Jews of Ashkenazi ethnic origin (Khazzoom, 1998, 2008; Smooha, 2008). Indeed, it was the veteran immigrants from eastern Europe who constituted the mainstay of Israel's power hegemony for decades both before and after the establishment of the State.…”

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“Don't cry, it doesn't belong to us”; critical thoughts on commemoration as a means of inclusion: Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust memory in Israel

Kook

Solomon

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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Efforts to incorporate the collective memories of minority communities into national memory narratives are viewed as an integral part of efforts to revive democracy, while contributing to social integration and equality. In this context, the inclusion of minority histories is increasingly being mandated by law and policy in many countries. Recently, Israel passed memory laws that set out to include the previously excluded history of its North African minority communities into the larger Israeli national memory narrative of the Holocaust. In this essay, we ask whether, and in what ways, this change in the national memory narrative has quelled feelings of alienation experienced by members of these minorities and increased feelings of national belonging. Based on group interviews conducted with members of Jewish North African communities in Israel, we demonstrate that feelings of exclusion from the national remembrance narrative linger, despite the efforts of the State.

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“…For many years, food preferences among Israelis mirrored political and ethnic separations by adopting the Mizrahi/Ashkenazi divide (Dahan Kalev 2001, Smooha 2008, Khazzoom 2008. However, today, the growing acceptance of culinary diversity means that Israeli Jews are more willing to embrace not only their ancestral ethnic cuisines of origin, but other, newer culinary traditions.…”

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Habaneros and shwarma: Jewish Mexicans in Israel as a transnational community

Schuster

2015

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Food is the cultural expression of society food as a marker of class, ethnic, and religious identity. What happens when the location changes? Does food continue to play such an important role or do other cultural nodes take over? Do layers of traditions, adaptation and cultural blends emerge? This seems to be the case with third and fourth generation Mexican Jews who have moved to Israel. Not only have they brought their spiritual and cultural connections from Mexico, their birth country; they have also brought the food experiences of their great-grandparents and grandparents who were they themselves immigrants. Jewish Mexicans have transplanted their sense of community to Israel and in doing so they have also brought overlooked cultural interactions and unique food experiences. Are these simply by-products of religious and migration patterns? Or are there other elements that have affected this cultural hybridity?

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Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel

Cited by 26 publications

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Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and Class: Oriental Faculty Women in Israel

Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and Class: Oriental Faculty Women in Israel

“Don't cry, it doesn't belong to us”; critical thoughts on commemoration as a means of inclusion: Mizrahi Jews and Holocaust memory in Israel

Habaneros and shwarma: Jewish Mexicans in Israel as a transnational community

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