Invention and Decline of Israeliness

Baruch Kimmerling is a George S. Wise Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous books in English and Hebrew, including The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times (1985) and, with Joel S. Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People (1993).

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Mythological-Historical Origins of the Israeli State 2. Building an Immigrant Settler State 3. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness 4. The End of Hegemony and the Onset of Cultural Plurality 5. The Newcomers 6. The Cultural Code of Jewishness: Religion and Nationalism 7. The Code of Security: The Israeli Military-Cultural Complex Conclusions Works Cited Index

"Like all of Baruch Kimmerling's work, this is a penetrating and provocative book. It offers a new paradigm for the current and future direction of Israeli society that will certainly become a central point of reference in the field. Kimmerling's explanation for the rise and fall of classic Labor Zionism is a seminal contribution to the ongoing debate over this central thread of the Israeli experience." - Alan Dowty, author of The Jewish State: A Century Later Anyone seriously interested in Israeli society should read this book." - Derek Penslar, author of Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe"