TY - BOOK
T1 - The academic middle-class rebellion
T2 - Socio-political conflict over Wage-Gaps in Israel, 1954-1956
AU - Bareli, Avi
AU - Cohen, Uri
N1 - Funding Information:
Two contemporary phenomena illustrate these respective forms of reaction. The “Biton report on the empowerment of Mizrachi and Sephardic heritage in the education system” is a comprehensive and academically substantiated proposal (Biton Report 2016). It aims to lead a significant shift in the instruction of history, theory and literature, Israel studies, and civic studies, and to enforce the mandatory incorporation of Mizrachi thinkers, writers, and poets into school curricula, and the instruction of Mizrachi and Sepharadi Jewish history. Additionally, the report includes recommendations for improving the operation of various entities and functions under the Ministry of Education, including the Council of Higher Education and its budget and planning committee, research universities, museums, and informal education institutions. The Biton Committee report can be seen as an assertive demand for full, egalitarian ownership of Israeli culture and its development. It expresses a growing social and cultural self-assurance and a sense of belonging to Israeli culture on the part of Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews based on their own cultural sources.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - "This new research investigates socio-political and ethnic-cultural conflicts over wage gaps in Israel during the 1950s. The Academic Middle-Class Rebellion exposes the struggle of the Ashkenazi (European) professional elite to capitalize on its advantages during the first decade of Israeli statehood, by attempting to maximize wage gaps between themselves and the new Oriental Jewish proletariat. This struggle was met with great resistance from the government under the ruling party, Mapai, and its leader David Ben-Gurion. The clash between the two sides revealed diverse, contradictory visions of the optimal socio-economic foundation for establishing collective identity in the new nation-state. The study by Avi Bareli and Uri Cohen uncovers patterns that merged nationalism and socialism in 1950s Israel confronting a liberal and meritocratic vision"
AB - "This new research investigates socio-political and ethnic-cultural conflicts over wage gaps in Israel during the 1950s. The Academic Middle-Class Rebellion exposes the struggle of the Ashkenazi (European) professional elite to capitalize on its advantages during the first decade of Israeli statehood, by attempting to maximize wage gaps between themselves and the new Oriental Jewish proletariat. This struggle was met with great resistance from the government under the ruling party, Mapai, and its leader David Ben-Gurion. The clash between the two sides revealed diverse, contradictory visions of the optimal socio-economic foundation for establishing collective identity in the new nation-state. The study by Avi Bareli and Uri Cohen uncovers patterns that merged nationalism and socialism in 1950s Israel confronting a liberal and meritocratic vision"
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U2 - 10.1163/9789004357853
DO - 10.1163/9789004357853
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AN - SCOPUS:85057865178
SN - 9789004357846
SN - 900435784X
VL - 30
T3 - Jewish Identities in a Changing World
BT - The academic middle-class rebellion
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
CY - Leiden ; Boston
ER -
