Immigration | Online Israel Studies Bulletin Board Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Online Israel Studies Bulletin Board New Publications, Bibliography, Conferences, Jobs, Scholarships, etc. Search Main menu Home About Contact Editor Submit a Posting to OISBB! Tag Archives: Immigration Post navigation ← Older posts New Article: Kallius et al, Politics of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Hungary Posted on January 20, 2016 by Aryeh Reply Kallius, Annastiina, Daniel Monterescu, and Prem Kumar Rajaram. “Immobilizing Mobility: Border Ethnography, Illiberal Democracy, and the Politics of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Hungary.” American Ethnologist (early view; online first). ְְ URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/amet.12260 Abstract In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between, on the one hand, depoliticizing narratives of crisis that sought to immobilize the migrants and, on the other, concrete political mobilization that sought to facilitate their mobility. While state institutions and humanitarian volunteer groups framed mobility in terms that emphasized a vertical form of politics, a horizontal counterpolitics arose by the summer’s end, one that challenged hegemonic territorial politics. The state’s efforts to immobilize resulted only in more radical forms of mobility. Outlining an ethnography of mobility, immobilization, and cross-border activism, we follow the dramatic yet momentary presence, and subsequent absence, of migrants in an evanescent rebel city marked by novel political solidarities. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged anti-Israel, Borders, European Migrant Crisis, Holocaust comparison, Hungary: Jewry, Immigration, Mobility, Muslims, Refugees | Leave a reply New Article: Hochman, Framing and Attitudes Toward Asylum Seekers in Israel Posted on January 20, 2016 by Aryeh Reply Hochman, Oshrat. “Infiltrators or Asylum Seekers? Framing and Attitudes Toward Asylum Seekers in Israel.” Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 13.4 (2015): 358-78. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2014.982779 Extract This study asks whether framing asylum seekers in Israel as “infiltrators” posing threats to the country amplifies exclusion toward them. The term “infiltrators” associates asylum seekers with the anti-infiltration law passed in the 1950s to fight terrorists and dissociates asylum seekers from their unique position as holders of special rights. The term “infiltrators” may thus influence the attitudes of the Israeli public regarding the treatment of asylum seekers. Findings demonstrate that respondents presented with the “infiltrators” frame were more likely to show exclusionary attitudes. Findings additionally show that the framing effect mediates the relation between perceived socioeconomic threat and exclusion. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Asylum Seekers, Exclusion, Framing, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration to Israel, National Security, Public Discourse, Racism, Refugees, Socio-Economics, Threat Perceptions | Leave a reply CFP: “Promised Lands: Israel-Diaspora Relations and Beyond” Workshop for Young Scholars (Munich, May 23-25, 2016) Posted on December 29, 2015 by Aryeh Reply The young scholars’ workshop focuses on the relationship between the State of Israel and Jewish communities worldwide. This relationship is often conceptualized in ideologically charged terms. “Diaspora,” the term most frequently used for Jewish communities outside of Israel, describes these relations in terms of “center” and “periphery” and is filled with negative connotations going back to religious traditions of spiritual diminishment and exile. But beyond messianic utopias, the actual state plays a great variety of different roles among Jews and their communities. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has shaped and formed the perceptions and self-perceptions of Jews around the world. What is more, these communities influence and shape Israeli culture, society and politics. Migration in both directions is a key element of these relations as migrants serve as agents of transcultural exchange and considerably help shaping mutual perceptions. These complex and multilayered relations and their representations are at the center of the workshop. The workshop offers young scholars from Europe in the field of Israel Studies a forum to discuss their work with their peers and senior scholars alike. Scholars on the doctoral and post-doctoral level (within three years after completing their Ph.D.) can expand their networks and help to foster a vivid academic community of Israel Studies in Europe. The workshop is supported by the Israel Institute and will take place at the Center for Advanced Studies / LMU Munich, Mai 23-25, 2016 under the direction of Michael Brenner (LMU Munich), Daniel Mahla (LMU Munich) and Johannes Becke (Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg). Featured speakers include Derek Penslar (Oxford/Toronto) and Michael Berkowitz (UCL London). To apply please send in an abstract of up to 300 words about the proposed paper and a CV until January 18, 2016 to: daniel.mahla@lrz.uni-muenchen.de. Topics can include, but are not limited to: – Political, economic and social relations between the State of Israel and Jewish communities worldwide – Israeli emigration and its representation – The concept of Jewish Diaspora and its changes after 1948 – The meanings and significance of the concept of a “dispersed people” for Jews and Israel – The roles of exile and home in Jewish weltanschauung – The influence of the state on Jewish-Gentile relations outside of Israel – The impact of the establishment of a Jewish state on world Jewry – The relationship between global and local in Jewish history -Comparative perspectives on diaspora nationalism and Homeland-Diaspora relations – Israeli Arab/Palestinian conceptions of “Diaspora” – Palestinian emigration and its representation – Non-Jewish diaspora communities in Israel (e.g. Armenians) – Jewish and non-Jewish migration into Israel Posted in CFP, Conference, Public Events | Tagged Aliyah, Diaspora, Diaspora: Israeli Diaspora, Emigration from Israel, Globalism, Homeland, Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration to Israel, Israel: Minorities, Israel: World Jewry relations, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish Identity, Jews and Non-Jews, Multiculturalism, Non-Jewish Immigrants, Palestine: Diaspora, Palestinian Diaspora | Leave a reply ToC: Hebrew Studies 56 (2015) Posted on December 29, 2015 by Aryeh Reply Below are the relevant articles for Israel Studies from the latest issue of Hebrew Studies. For a full Table of Contents,click here. Innovative Designation of Diminution in the Writings of Abraham Shlonsky pp. 231-243 Bat-Zion Yemini Memory and History in Israeli Post-Apocalyptic Theater pp. 245-263 Zahava Caspi Questioning Boundaries of Language and the World: Ambivalence and Disillusionment in the Writings of Shimon Adaf pp. 265-294 Dorit Lemberger Hebrew Neologisms in the Writings of Anton Shammas pp. 295-314 Adel Shakour, Abdallah Tarabeih The Pain of Two Homelands: Immigration to Israel in Twenty-First Century Hebrew Prose Fiction pp. 315-331 Smadar Shiffman “Our Virgin Friends and Wives”?: Female Sexual Subjectivity in Yona Wallach’s Poetry pp. 333-356 Amalia Ziv New Testament Jesus in Modern Jewish Literature: A Symposium pp. 357-358 Zev Garber Jesus and the Pharisees through the Eyes of Two Modern Hebrew Writers: A Contrarian Perspective pp. 359-365 Neta Stahl A Question of Truth: Form, Structure, and Character in Der man fun Natseres pp. 367-376 Melissa Weininger Overtones of Isaac and Jesus in Modern Hebrew Narrative pp. 377-384 Aryeh Wineman The Jewish Jesus: Conversation, Not Conversion pp. 385-392 Zev Garber Reviews Compassion and Fury: On The Fiction of A. B. Yehoshua by Gilead Morahg (review) pp. 433-436 Yael Halevi-Wise Periodicals pp. 437-456 Books Received — 2015 pp. 457-460 Posted in Bibliography, Journal ToC | Tagged A.B. Yehoshua, Aaron Abraham Kabak, Aharon Appelfeld, Aliyah, Alona Kimhi, Ambivalence, Amos Oz, Anton Shammas, Aqedah, Avraham Shlonsky, Belonging, Bilingualism, Children's Literature, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Disillusionment, Drama, Emile Habibi, Femininity, Haim Hazaz, Hebrew children's literature, Hebrew Language, Hebrew literature, History, Holocaust, Homeland, Immigration, Immigration to Israel, Israel: Literature, Israeli Drama, Israeli Literature, Jesus, Jewish Literature, Joshua Sobol, Memory, Minor Literature, North African Immigrants, Novel, Otherness, Palestinian Hebrew Literature, Pinchas Sadeh, Poetry, Post-Apocalyptic literature, Prose, Russian Immigrants, Sami Berdugo, Sexuality, Shimon Adaf, Shimon Buzaglo, Sholem Asch, Theatre, Translation, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Yiddish, Yiddish Literature, Yona Wallach | Leave a reply New Article: Johnston, Aliyah le-Berlin Posted on November 11, 2015 by Aryeh Reply Johnston, Zachary. “Aliyah Le Berlin: A Documentary about the Next Chapter of Jewish Life in Berlin.” In Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany (ed. Olaf Glöckner and Haim Fireberg; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015): 152-62. Abstract The American movie director and producer Zachary Johnston shares with us his insights on the emergence of a diaspora of Israeli youth in Berlin. In many ways – second only to Fania Oz-Salzberger – he is one of the pioneers in identifying the phenomenon that he follows in his documentary, and he had done it well before it became a hot issue in the Israeli media in 2014. Johnston challenges the common Israeli set of values about migration. “One cannot use the term ‘aliyah‘ out-of-context without eliciting a knee-jerk response due to its value-loaded nature of the word, which is tied to the ‘ascent’ of Jews to Israel.” He adds: “Perhaps, this new age of Israeli and Jewish exploration in Germany has a higher purpose that has yet to be ascertained, that down the road the concept of aliyah will receive a something deeper, stronger, and broader meaning for the nation of Israel and its citizens.” Posted in Bibliography, Book Chapter | Tagged Aliyah, Cinema, Diaspora: Israeli Diaspora, Documentary, Emigration from Israel, Film, Germany: Israeli Diaspora, Immigration, Immigration to Israel | Leave a reply New Book: Kotef, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom Posted on November 3, 2015 by Aryeh Reply Kotef, Hagar. Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Ordering of Freedom, Hagar Kotef examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces. Ranging from the writings of Locke, Hobbes, and Mill to the sophisticated technologies of control that circumscribe the lives of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, this book shows how concepts of freedom, security, and violence take form and find justification via “regimes of movement.” Kotef traces contemporary structures of global (im)mobility and resistance to the schism in liberal political theory, which embodied the idea of “liberty” in movement while simultaneously regulating mobility according to a racial, classed, and gendered matrix of exclusions. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and Its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine / Hagar Kotef and Merav Amir 2. An Interlude: A Tale of Two Roads—On Freedom and Movement 3. The Fence That “Ill Deserves the Name of Confinement”: Locomotion and the Liberal Body 4. The Problem of “Excessive” Movement 5. The “Substance and Meaning of All Things Political”: On Other Bodies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index HAGAR KOTEF is based at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. Posted in Bibliography, Book | Tagged Body, Checkpoints, Colonialism, Comparison, Conflicted Spaces, Democracy, Deportation, Fear, Fearism, Freedom of Movement, Gender, Globalization, Hannah Arendt, Hegemony, Human Rights, Immigration, Israel: Land Ownership, Israel: Law, Israel: Security and Defense, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Land, Liberalism, Machsom Watch, Michel Foucault, Militarism, Mobility, National Security, Native Americans, Nomadism, Occupation, Plato, Political Theory, Political Violence, Postcolonialism, Poverty, Punishment, Racism, Rationalism, Segregated Roads, Separation Barrier, Separation Wall, Sovereignty, Space and Place, Space Construction, Spatial Practices, Spatial Theory, State Violence, Thomas Hobbes, Threat Perceptions, Time, United States, Violence, West Bank, West Bank Settlements | Leave a reply New Book: Eshet, The Interest in UFOs and Extraterrestrials in Israeli Society (in Hebrew) Posted on October 23, 2015 by Aryeh Reply Eshet, Techia. For Their Eyes Only. The Interest in UFOs and Extraterrestrials in Israeli Society. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2015 (in Hebrew). In the last decade of the 20th century, more than fifty years since the first report of a “flying saucer” in the United States, there has been a growing interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials in Western culture in general and in Israel in particular. At times it seems that spacecrafts have landed in Israel en masse and thousands of extraterrestrials have conquered every part of its culture: the TV screens, daily newspapers, websites and billboards. The interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials, which flourished in Israel in various arenas during the 1990s, is discussed in this book in the context of addressing issues of identity and otherness. This offers a different and fascinating perspective in a an extraordinary and innovative field of study; a “different” world, which is ostensibly distant, but in fact is close in many ways. “Glimpsing” into the world of those dealing with UFOs and extraterrestrials reveals not only this unique and intriguing subculture, but also very sheds light on the local and global culture of which we are all apart. The employment of extraterrestrial otherness reflects in this book the culture at large, including the changes and transformations that have taken place in Israeli society, alongside an observation of existential issues and concepts related to time, space, body and human existence. This gripping journey into the intricacies of the other and the marginal demonstrates that the preoccupation with the other, the cosmic, and the alien enables the strengthening of the relationship to the present and the local. In addition, the book discusses major cultural issues such as religion, politics, internal and external divides and conflicts, and pseudo-science. To Their Eyes Only is based on anthropological research conducted within the framework of a doctoral thesis written by Techia Eshet. The study, which lasted several years, included Participant observations in conferences of “the Israeli Center for UFO Research” and in clinics offering treatment through extraterrestrials, along with interviews with practitioners in the field, and analysis of reports on evidence about seeing a UFO sightings or extraterrestrial encounters. Techia (Thea) Eshet is a doctor of anthropology; Lecturer at the University of Haifa. . Posted in Bibliography, Book | Tagged Aliens, Anthropology, Collective Identity, Cultural Anthropology, Extraterrestrials, Globalism, Immigration, Israel: Culture, Israeli Center for UFO Research, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, New Age, Otherness, Outer Space, Pseudo-Science, Science Fiction, Spirituality, Subculture, UFOs | Leave a reply Dissertation: Hankins | Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel Posted on September 2, 2015 by Aryeh Reply Hankins, Sarah Elizabeth. Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel. PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2015. URL: http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/17467531 Abstract “Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel,” explores the forms and functions of African and Afro-diasporic musics amidst heated public debate around ethnic identity and national membership. Focusing on musical-political activity among Ethiopian Israeli citizens, Sudanese and Eritrean refugees, and West African labor migrants in Tel Aviv, I examine how diverse types of musicking, from nightclub DJing and live performance to church services and protest concerts, voice African and Afro-descendent claims to civic status in a fractured urban environment. Grounded in ethnographic participant observation, the dissertation analyzes musical and political activity through the lens of “interpretive modes” that shape contemporary Israel’s national consciousness, and which influence African and Afro-descendant experiences within Israeli society. These include “Israeliyut,” or the valorization of so-called native Israeli cultural forms and histories; “Africani,” an emerging set of aesthetic and social values that integrates African and Afro-descendent subjectivities into existing frameworks of Israeli identity; and “glocali,” or the effort to reconcile local Israeli experience with aspects of globalization. Tracing “blackness” as an ideological and aesthetic category through five decades of public discourse and popular culture, I examine the disruptions to this category precipitated by Israel’s 21st century encounter with African populations. I find that the dynamics of debate over African presence influence an array of mass-cultural processes, including post-Zionism, conceptions of ethnic “otherness,” and the splintering of Israel’s left into increasingly narrow interest groups. Contributing to the literature on continuity and change within urban-dwelling African diasporas, this dissertation is the first monograph exploring dramatic transformations of Israel’s highly consolidated national culture through in-depth ethnography with migrant groups. Posted in Bibliography, Dissertation | Tagged African Immigrants, Central Bus Station, Cultural Identity, Demographics, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Globalism, Glocalization, Hybridity, Identity, Identity Construction, Immigration, Immigration to Israel, Israel: Minorities, Labor Migrants, Minorities, Multiculturalism, Multidimensional, Music, Ovdim Zarim, Sensory Ethnography, Soundscape, Sudanese Immigrants, Tel Aviv, Urban Space, התחנה המרכזית | Leave a reply New Article: Brown, Re-examining the Transnational Nanny Posted on March 29, 2015 by Aryeh Reply Brown, Rachel H. “Re-examining the Transnational Nanny. Migrant Carework beyond the Chain.” International Feminist Journal of Politics (early view; online first). URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1007728 Abstract This article explores whether the concept of a global care chain is useful in understanding the migration of careworkers internationally. It examines how an affective approach to understanding migration could supplement the care chain analysis by accounting for the overlapping, shifting, contingent and non-linear networks of emotion that arise during migrations. Analyzing carework through the lens of an “affective economy” is more revealing of the multiple experiences of Filipino gay and transgender caregivers in Tel Aviv and New York, Peruvian careworkers in Spain and Polish careworkers in Germany, as but three brief, illustrative examples. First I will discuss what the care chain approach can illuminate about the multiple and varied stories of migrant careworkers and how it may also essentialize or oversimplify their experiences. I will then suggest that the model naturalizes the caring, biological mother and reinforces geographical and ideological binaries such as North/South, winner/loser and domination/dependency. Finally, I will discuss how the care chain model presents a linear conception of time and space, obscuring the overlapping and multi-directional routes of migration that careworkers travel. Ultimately I will argue that an affective approach creates the theoretical language that can help build what Chela Sandoval calls a coalitional consciousness. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Caregivers, Comparison, Filipino Caregivers, Filipinos, Gay caregivers, Germany, Immigrants, Immigration, Labor Migrants, LGBTQ, Old Age, Philippine Immigrants, Queer, Spain, Tel Aviv, Transgender | Leave a reply Screening and Discussion: Shadow in Baghdad (SOAS, Nov 20, 2014) Posted on November 12, 2014 by Aryeh Reply SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies Shadow in Baghdad Film Screening and Panel Discussion 7pm Thursday 20th November Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz (journalist, film protagonist) Adel Darwish (author and journalist); Amal al-Jubouri (Director of the Arab Human Rights Academy) Chair: Dr. Yair Wallach (SOAS) SHADOW IN BAGHDAD (director: Duki Dror, 2013) tells the story of Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz, who escaped the upheaval of Iraq in the early 1970’s to Israel, and her father, who disappeared shortly thereafter to an unknown fate. The film follows Linda as an unexpected connection with a young Iraqi journalist sets her back on the path towards Baghdad and the truth behind her father’s disappearance. What they ultimately uncover is not only the fate of Linda’s father but that of the once thriving Iraqi Jewish community whose glorious history came to an abrupt end in the 1970’s. At once a story of tragedy and redemption, Shadow in Baghdad tells of an important chapter in the turbulent history of the Middle East as it points to a distinct hope for the future as well. THE PANEL DISCUSSION will consider Iraq’s Jewish past against the country’s current predicament and the question of human rights, civic solidarity and minorities in the Middle East. All Welcome The event is free and there is no need to book SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Posted in Discussion \ Panel, Public Events, Screening | Tagged Cinema, Documentary, Duki Dror, Immigration, Iraqi Jews, Israeli Film, Jewish refugees, Refugees | Leave a reply New Article: Cohen & Kranz, State-assisted Highly Skilled Return Programmes: Israel and Germany Compared Posted on September 10, 2014 by Aryeh Reply Cohen, Nir and Dani Kranz. “State-assisted Highly Skilled Return Programmes, National Identity and the Risk(s) of Homecoming: Israel and Germany Compared.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (ahead of print) URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2014.948392 Abstract State-assisted return programmes (SARPs) have emerged as key components of diaspora mobilisation strategies in countries of origin. Especially in countries where the principle of jus sanguinis underpins citizenship regimes, these programmes have often been drawn from ostensibly national(istic) discourses in order to encourage the repatriation of (mostly highly skilled) citizens residing abroad. Drawing on interviews with public officials and migrants as well as content analysis of primary and secondary materials, this paper examines SARPs deployed by Israel and Germany. It argues that while the discourse and practice within which state programmes are embedded (re-)construct the nation in certain ways that are commensurate with perceived determinants of return, migrants have often rejected these formulations, underscoring instead a range of neglected personal and professional return-oriented risks. The paper’s main contribution lies in better clarifying the links between highly skilled return migration policy, national identity and migration determinants and uncovers the diverging articulations of return used by state and migrants alike. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Brain Drain, Citizenship, Comparison, Germany, High-Skilled Migration, Homecoming, Identity, Immigration, Immigration Policy, Labor Force Policy, Labor Migrants, Nationalism, Return Migrants / תושב חוזר | Leave a reply New Article: Rebhun, Israeli Émigrés in the United States and Europe Compared Posted on September 7, 2014 by Aryeh Reply Rebhun, Uzi. “Immigrant Acculturation and Transnationalism: Israelis in the United States and Europe Compared.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53.3 (2014): 613-35. URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.12135/abstract Abstract This article examines relations between social integration into host societies, religio-ethnic acculturation into group belonging, and ties to home country among Israeli émigrés in the United States and Europe. I use data from a 2009–2010 Internet survey into which I incorporated country-contextual characteristics. The results of multivariate analyses show that a social integration combining duration of residence abroad and local citizenship enhances religio-ethnic identification. Another measure of integration, social networks, deters group behaviors. All measures of general integration inhibit attachment to the home country, whereas religio-ethnic acculturation is largely insignificant for transnationalism. The religiosity of the new country does not influence immigrants’ religio-ethnic patterns or homeland attachment. Insofar as group size is a significant determinant of particularistic behaviors, it weakens them. The more policy-based opportunities newcomers receive, the more they dissociate from group behaviors and homeland ties. Irrespective of individual and contextual factors, living in the United States encourages group affiliation more than living in Europe does. The results are discussed in reference to four working hypotheses—marginalization, integration, assimilation, and separation—and from a U.S.-European comparative perspective. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Acculturation, Assimilation, Comparison, Diaspora, Diaspora: Israeli Diaspora, Emigration from Israel, Europe, Exile, Immigration, Israel: Society, Marginalization, Religio-Ethnic Identification, Separation, Social Integration, Social Networks, Ties to Homeland, United States | Leave a reply Dissertation: Amihay, The Imagetext Turn in the Hebrew Novel Posted on July 7, 2014 by Aryeh Reply Amihay, Ofra. Migrating Images: The Imagetext Turn in the Hebrew Novel. New York University, 2014. URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1518939613 Abstract This dissertation examines the effect of twentieth-century “new media” models on literature, in the form of the late twentieth-century wave of literary works in which visual images play a central poetic role. Demarcating this body of works as an independent cultural turn, I label this “the imagetext turn” thus following two groundbreaking terms coined by W. J. T. Mitchell, “the pictorial turn” and “imagetext.” Based on philosophical discussions regarding the egalitarianism behind text and image hybrids (Benjamin, Rancière, Mitchell), and theories of the democratic nature of the novel (Auerbach, Lukács, Bakhtin) and photography (Sontag, Barthes, Azoulay), I focus on the marriage of novels and photographs. The case study for this exploration is three contemporary Israeli novelists: Yoel Hoffmann, Ronit Matalon, and Michal Govrin. Following a survey of the approach towards the visual image in Modern Hebrew literature, I identify their works as comprising the “imagetext turn” in Hebrew literature while marking their importance within a general literary development, primarily through a comparison to W. G. Sebald’s novels. My study of Hoffmann analyzes the web of Others in his novels through the photographic mechanism of the negative, suggesting the juxtaposition of text and photographs in How Do You Do Dolores echoes the Other behind text, place, and language in all his work. In my analysis of Matalon I discuss the double role photographs play in Matalon’s pursuit of postcolonial ideas in The One Facing Us, operating both as “portable roots” and as “poetic immigrants,” thus offering a subversive reading of reality that undermines nostalgia. Finally I show how through an intricate combination of narrative and visual images Govrin creates in Snapshots a literary representation of both the ideals and the blind spots of the 1990s left-wing movement of secular return to Jewish sources in Israel. Subject: Comparative literature; Middle Eastern literature; Judaic studies Classification: 0295: Comparative literature; 0315: Middle Eastern literature; 0751: Judaic studies Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Hebrew literature, Govrin, Michal, Photography, Matalon, Ronit, Sebald, W. G., Hoffmann, Yoel Number of pages: 308 Publication year: 2014 Degree date: 2014 School code: 0146 Source: DAI-A 75/07(E), Jan 2015 Place of publication: Ann Arbor Country of publication: United States ISBN: 9781303805424 Advisor: Feldman, Yael Committee member: Hirsch, Marianne; Mann, Barbara E.; Engel, David; Kaplan, Marion University/institution: New York University Department: Hebrew and Judaic Studies University location: United States — New York Degree: Ph.D. Source type: Dissertations & Theses Language: English Document type: Dissertation/Thesis Dissertation/thesis number: 3614848 ProQuest document ID: 1518939613 Posted in Bibliography, Dissertation | Tagged Comparative Literature, Cultural Judaism, Hebrew literature, Imagetext, Immigration, Israeli Left Wing, Israeli Literature, Michl Govrin, Nostalgia, Novel, Otherness, Photographic Negative, Photography, Postcolonialism, Ronit Matalon, Secularism, Visual Culture, W. G. Sebald, Yoel Hoffmann, יואל הופמן, מיכל גוברין, רונית מטלון | Leave a reply New Article: Rosenberg-Friedman, Story of Ada Sereni, Head of the Mossad Le’aliyah in Italy Posted on July 6, 2014 by Aryeh Reply Rosenberg-Friedman, Lilach. “National Mission, Feminine Identity and Female Leadership in a Mythical Masculine Organization: The Story of Ada Sereni, Head of the Mossad: The Story of Ada Sereni, Head of the Mossad Le’aliyah in Italy during the 1940s.” Women’s Studies 43.5 (2014): 589-618. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2014.914396 Abstract Before the establishment of the Mossad, Israel’s mythological secret service agency (formed in 1949), another secretive organization operated in the region. This organization, known as the Mossad Le’Aliyah Bet (henceforth the Mossad), was responsible for helping Holocaust survivors immigrate illegally to Palestine. Few people are aware that a woman, Ada Sereni, headed the organizations’ important Italian division from July 1945 to May 1948, an intense period during the struggle for the establishment of the State of Israel. This article seeks to present the characteristics of Ada Sereni’s actions, the new identity she developed during this period, and her complex leadership style. Posted in Journal article | Tagged Ada Sereni, Aliyah, Biography, Female Leadership, Feminine agency, Feminine Identity, Feminism, Immigration, Immigration to Israel, Leadership, Mossad Le'Aliyah Bet, Nationalism, Zionism, Zionism: Illegal Immigration, מוסד לעלייה ב' | Leave a reply New Article: Hankins, Multidimensional Israeliness and Tel Aviv’s Tachanah Merkazit Posted on December 25, 2013 by Aryeh Reply Hankins, Sarah. “Multidimensional Israeliness and Tel Aviv’s Tachanah Merkazit: Hearing Culture in a Polyphonic Transit Hub.” City & Society 25.3 (2013): 282-303. URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ciso.12023/abstract Abstract Israel’s heated public debate over the socio-political implications of increasing demographic diversity plays out with special prominence in Tel Aviv, home to large minority citizen populations and a destination for foreign workers and refugees from Asia and Africa. The city’s New Central Bus Station, or tachanah merkazit, is a transit hub and commercial complex in which multiple ethnic groups enact aesthetic and cultural dimensions of Israeli urban and national identity in flux. This paper presents a sensory ethnography of the tachanah: sonic and musical expressions of “local” and “global” Israeliness are analyzed against a backdrop of near-constant motion and transit. The somatic and ideological dimensions of movement enable Jewish Israelis, minority citizens and foreigners to assimilate sounds of culture within the tachanah at deeply-felt, personal levels. The tachanah’s sonic activity is inherently political, having the potential to impact collective identity and civic reality in Tel Aviv and across Israel Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Central Bus Station, Demographics, Ethnicity, Identity, Immigration, Israel: Minorities, Labor Migrants, Minorities, Multiculturalism, Multidimensional, Music, Ovdim Zarim, Sensory Ethnography, Soundscape, Tel Aviv, Urban Space, התחנה המרכזית | Leave a reply Cite: Raijman, South African Jews in Israel Posted on August 26, 2013 by Aryeh Reply Raijman, Rebeca. “Moving to the Homeland: South African Jews in Israel.” Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 11.3 (2013): 259-77. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15562948.2013.801728 Abstract This article focuses on Jewish South African immigrants migrating to Israel. It examines motives for migration, the ways by which migrants organized their move to the new country, and the types of resources (individual and institutional) on which they relied to make and implement their decision. Our study suggests that both push and pull factors explain South African Jewish migration to Israel. The unstable socioeconomic and political situation prevalent in South Africa was the main push factor explaining the desire to leave the country, whereas a strong Jewish and Zionist identity acted as a strong pull factor driving South African Jews to Israel. In addition, the existence of social networks and institutional frameworks linking the two countries helped perpetuate the migration over time. Two salient conceptual points emerge. First, theories that stress the economic aspects of migration alone are not helpful in explaining South African Jewish migration to Israel. We must also consider how ethnic identities related to the host society (e.g., their Jewish and Zionist identity) affect potential migrants’ decision making. Second, in order to understand the process of the migration of Jews to Israel, it is important to refer to the communal and social structures in the countries of origin and of destination. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Aliyah, Ethnicity, Identity, Ideology, Immigration, Immigration to Israel, Migration Motives, South Africa, South-African Jewry, Zionism | Leave a reply Reviews: Kanaaneh and Nusair, eds. Displaced at Home Posted on August 26, 2013 by Aryeh Reply Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann and Isis Nusair, eds. Displaced at Home. Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2010. Reviews Sa’ar, Amalia. “Review.” Review of Middle East Studies 45.1 (2011): 113-115. Bachal, Lauren, et al. “Review.” Contemporary Sociology 40.5 (2011): 639-40. Gluck, Sherna Berger. “New Directions in Palestinian Oral History.” Oral History Review 39.1 (2012): 100-111. Vivier, Elmé. “Review.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 13.3 (2012): 203-207. Arar, Khalid. “Review.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 40.2 (2013): 227-30. . Posted in Bibliography, Book Review | Tagged Activism, Agriculture, Al-Birweh, Anthropology, Bedouins, counter-memory, Emigration from Israel, Ethnicity, Gender, Grassroots, Hip-hop, Identity, IDF, Immigration, Israel: Culture, Israel: Municipalities, Israel: Music, Israeli Palestinians, Marriage, Memory, Municipal Elections, Music, Nakbah, Politics, Refugees, Repatriation, Sexuality, Sociology, Unrecognized Villages, Voting Patterns | Leave a reply Dissertation: Katan, Language Socialization and Linguistic Ideologies among Israeli Emissaries in the United States Posted on May 2, 2013 by Aryeh Reply Language socialization and linguistic ideologies among Israeli emissaries in the United States Author: Kattan, Shlomy Publication info: University of California, Berkeley, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3413403. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/749359605?accountid=14709 Abstract: Research in both the anthropology and sociology of education has increasingly come to consider the institutional effects of migration, globalization, and transnationalism on learning environments. Yet, most studies examining transmigration and education have only looked at migrant children in schools rather than at the transitions they undergo as transnationals across settings. We know little of the linguistic and socializing practices that occur during migrants’ transitions from place to place and how they come to define the migratory and educational experience for transnational children. This multi-sited, global ethnography examines language socialization practices and linguistic ideologies among families of Israeli emissaries ( shlichim ) employed by the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). The study documented the transitions undergone by families with school-age children in the months of their preparation for their move from Israel to the United States and during the first year and-a-half in the U.S.. Data collection for this project took place in both Israel and New York at the homes of the families, the children’s schools, peer group activities, extracurricular programs, play, and summer camp. The focus of this dissertation project is on routine home and school practices which orient children to attitudes towards their identities as Israelis, as Zionists, as transnationals, and as temporary residents of the United States. The study approaches this question through the lens of the language socialization paradigm, a subfield of linguistic anthropology which understands socialization to occur both through the use of language and to the use of language. I argue that through attention to language use and form children are taught to attend to symbolic boundaries between Israeli, Jewish Diasporan, and U.S. American identities. The simultaneous reinforcement and transcendence of these symbolic boundaries is a defining characteristic of living transnationally. I find that transnational identities: (1) Are constructed through an explicit recognition of the boundaries between the linguistic and cultural practices of the homeland and the host country; (2) are negotiated through attention to the authenticity of members of the homeland, the host country, and the transnational community; that is, through attention to the extent to which individuals stay within the symbolic boundaries that separate the homeland and the host-land; and (3) Display an ambivalence toward affiliation with the host country by accentuating and emphasizing the linguistic and cultural practices of the homeland. Based on these findings, I call for a language socialization approach to studying transnationalism which recognizes the role of the local and the global, the contemporary and the historical, and the orthodox and heterodox in everyday transnational practices. By focusing on the shlichim ‘s transition from Israel to the United States, the dissertation obtains a view of migration often unavailable to researchers: the preparation for departure and initial arrival to the country of destination. This period of transition is formative in the emissaries’ experiences and as they define themselves vis-à-vis their country of origin and their host country. In this sense, this dissertation contributes to an understanding of the role of language in transnational practices, thus supplementing the growing field of research around questions of transnationalism, diaspora, and identity. Subject: Linguistics; Cultural anthropology; Educational sociology Classification: 0290: Linguistics; 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0340: Educational sociology Identifier / keyword: Education, Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Language socialization, Ideologies, Israeli, Emissaries, Diaspora, Identity, Israel, Shlichut, Symbolic boundaries,; Transnationalism Title: Language socialization and linguistic ideologies among Israeli emissaries in the United States Number of pages: 144 Publication year: 2010 Degree date: 2010 School code: 0028 Source: DAI-A 71/09, Mar 2011 Place of publication: Ann Arbor Country of publication: United States ISBN: 9781124140995 Advisor: Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia Committee member: Kramsch, Claire J., Boyarin, Daniel University/institution: University of California, Berkeley Department: Education University location: United States — California Degree: Ph.D. Source type: Dissertations & Theses Language: English Document type: Dissertation/Thesis Dissertation/thesis number: 3413403 ProQuest document ID: 749359605 Posted in Bibliography, Dissertation | Tagged Diaspora, Globalization, Hebrew, Immigration, Israel: Culture, Israelis Abroad, Jewish Agency, Language, Schlichim, Zionism, שליחים | Leave a reply Cite: Yaron et al., Analysis of Israel’s Policy Towards African Asylum-Seekers Posted on April 19, 2013 by Aryeh Reply Yaron, Hadas, Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe and John Campbell. “‘Infiltrators’ or Refugees? An Analysis of Israel’s Policy Towards African Asylum-Seekers.” International Migration (Early View: Online Version of Record published before inclusion in an issue). URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12070/abstract Abstract This article adopts a genealogical approach in examining Israeli immigration policy by focusing on the situation confronting African asylum seekers who have been forced back into Egypt, detained and deported but who have not had their asylum claims properly assessed. Based on immigration policies formulated at the time of Israeli independence, whose principle objective was to secure a Jewish majority state, we argue that Israel’s treatment of African asylum seekers as ‘infiltrators’/economic migrants stems from an insistence on maintaining immigration as a sovereign issue formally isolated from other policy domains. Such an approach is not only in violation of Israel’s commitment to the Refugee Convention, it directly contributes to policies which are ineffective and unduly harsh. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Africa, Asylum Seekers, Immigration, Israel, Migrants, Otherness, Racism, Refugees, Sudan | Leave a reply Cite: Harpaz, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Israelis with a European Passport Posted on April 4, 2013 by Aryeh Reply Harpaz, Yossi. “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Israelis with a European Passport – History, Property, Identity.” International Migration 47.1 (2013): 166-206. URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12017/abstract Abstract Over the past decade, a new and intriguing phenomenon developed in Israel: close to 60,000 Israelis applied for citizenship in the Central and Eastern European countries from which their families immigrated. Typically, these new dual citizens have no plans to “return” to Germany or Poland, nor do they feel any identification with their countries of origin. Instead, they are mainly interested in obtaining a “European Union passport” and in gaining potential access to the European common market. The paper presents statistics on this unconventional case of dual citizenship, surveys the historical and legal circumstances that produced it and uses material from interviews to explore the meanings and uses that European-Israeli dual citizens attribute to their European passports. Dual citizenship, the findings show, is used by Israelis in various and sometimes unexpected ways: as enhancer of economic opportunities, “insurance policy,” intergenerational gift, and even as an elitist status symbol. This modality of state belonging can be termed “passport citizenship”: Non-resident citizenship here is stripped of its national meaning and treated as an individual piece of property, which is embodied by the passport and obtained for pragmatic reasons. Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Cosmopolitan, Dual Citizenship, Emogration from Israel, European Union, Identity, Immigration, Israel: Society, Israel: Sociology, Nationalism, Pierre Bourdieu, Rogers Brubaker, Zionism | Leave a reply Post navigation ← Older posts Email Subscription Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address: Sign me up! 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