Taking a fresh look at the past hundred years of shared Palestinian
and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising
relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and
the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel.
Shattering our assumptions about these two seemingly irreconcilable
cultures, Kimmerling composes a sophisticated portrait of one
side's behavior and characteristics and the way in which they
irrevocably shaped those of the other.
Though the studies in this volume span a twenty-year period,
Kimmerling remains focused on the clashes, tensions, and
complementarities that link Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli
identities. Drawing on his command of a vast body of sociological
literature, Kimmerling explores the phenomena of reciprocal
relationships between Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory
Palestine; relations between state and society in Israel; patterns
of militarism; the problems of jurisdiction in an immigrant-settler
society; and the ongoing struggle of Israel to achieve legitimacy
as both a Jewish and a democratic state.
By merging Israeli and Jewish studies with a wealth of
scholarship on Palestinians and the Middle East, Kimmerling
introduces a unique conceptual framework for analyzing the
cultural, political, and material overlap of both societies. A
must-read for those concerned with Israel and the relations between
Jews and Arabs, Clash of Identities is a provocative exploration of
the ever-evolving, always-contending identities available to
Israelis and Palestinians and the fascinating contexts in which
they take form.
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