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Author: Ben-Rafael, Eliezer (Editor)/ Gorni, Yosef (Editor)/ Ro'I, Yaacov (Editor)
ISBN: 9789004129504

by Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Editor); Yosef Gorny (Editor); Yaacov Ro'i (Editor)

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Title Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and Divergence
Author Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Editor); Yosef Gorny (Editor); Yaacov Ro'i (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 406
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Brill
Date October 2003
ISBN 9789004129504 / 9004129502
Weight 1.88 lbs (0.85 kg)
Dimensions 9.64 x 6.52 x 1.22 in (24.49 x 16.56 x 3.10 cm)
Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003045207
Dewey Decimal Code 909.049

About the author

Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Weinberg Professor of Political Sociology and co-director of the Klal Yisrael Project at the Tel-Aviv University. He is the President of the International Institute of Sociology and has published extensively, including Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society (1991), Language, Identity and Social Division: The Case of Israel (1994), Crisis and Transformation (1997) and Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion (Brill, 2002). He has co-edited Language and Communication in Israel (2001) and Identity, Culture and Globalization (Brill, 2002).
Yosef Gorny is Professor of History and co-chair of the Klal Yisrael Project at Tel-Aviv University. He is the incumbent of the Speigel Family Chair of the History of European Jewry. He has published numerous books, including The British Labor Movement and Zionism (1948), (1972), Zionism and the Arabs 1882-1948- A Study of Ideology (1979), The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity (1994), From Rosh Pina and Deganya to Dimona: A History of Constructive Zionism (1992) and Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem (Jewish Books, 2004).
Yaacov Ro'i is Research Fellow of the Cummings Center and Professor of History at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of numerous works, among them Soviet Decision Making in Practice, The USSR and Israel 1947-1954 (1980) and The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration 1948-1967 (1991). He is the editor of Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union (1995), and co-editor of Soviet Jews Culture and Identity (1991) and of Russian Jews on Three Continents - Migration and Resettlement (1997).