Globus: Globus, 16.1869

Anthropos, 97.2002

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Titel:: Globus

Untertitel:: illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde

Weitere Titel:: Globus

Erscheinungsort:: Braunschweig

Verlag:: Vieweg

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1862

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Persistenter Identifier:: DE-11-001723745

Titel:: Globus, 16.1869

Verlag:: Vieweg

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1869

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: No. 7. September 1869

Sonstige Person:: Andree, Karl

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Aus allen Erdtheilen

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Anthropos 97.2002: 3-19 Ethnic Trajectories in Israel Comparing the “Bene Israel” and “Beta Israel” Communities, 1950-2000 Jon G. Abbink Abstract. - In this article a comparative study is presented of the Indian and the Ethiopian Jews in Israel, immigrant com munities that went through similar experiences of integration and accommodation in Israel, despite the time lag in their arrival. Elements of their history and sociocultural background in the countries of origin are discussed in order to explain the emergence and status of ethnic identity in a complex new society with a shared background ideology of integration (Zionism). An assessment is made of the (perceived) initial religious and social marginality of the two groups as it may have interacted with their social “careers” and group status. The socioeconomic structure of Israeli society has contributed to “reproducing ethnicity.” The analysis suggests that the “Indian” and “Ethiopian” Jewish subidentities are now well-established in Israel, illustrating that the cultural content of “Jewishness” or Jewish identity is quite diverse. [Israel, Indian Jews, Ethiopian Jews, ethnic identity, multiculturalism] Jon G. Abbink, Ph. D., senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, and professor of African ethnic studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His doctoral thesis (1984) was on the Ethiopian Jews (Falasha) in Israel (see also his article in Anthropos 78. 1983). - His research interests are the anthropology and history of southern Ethiopia, contemporary sociopolitical developments in Northeast Africa, and Ethiopian material culture. He carried out fieldwork on peoples in the Ethiopian Southwest, on which he published many articles. His most recent book (со-edited with G. Aijmer) is “Meanings of Violence. A Cross-Cultural Perspective” (Oxford 2000). 1 Introduction Apart from the conflict with Arab countries and the Palestinians not accepting its existence, the state of Israel has, since 1948, had internal problems with the integration of Jewish immigrant groups of various origins. Critical reassessments of the long-dominant sociological perspective on social integration or “absorption” of these groups in Israel (e.g., the “Eisenstadt school”) have made it clear that ethnic diversity and tensions now visible were already long present under the sur face. Tensions and conflicts with ethnic referents have only gained a belated recognition in Israeli social science (since the late 1960s). At present, the study of “ethnicity” among Jewish groups has become not only fashionable but mandatory. There are both political-economic and cultural reasons for the (re)emergence of ethnicity itself. What makes the Israeli case interesting in a comparative perspective is that while the postmodern condition of the resurgence and institutionalization of cultur al diversity without an overarching “normative” framework is general, in Israel the Zionist idea is still the commonly accepted rationale of state and society among most political parties, Jewish citizens, and immigrants. 1 My aim in this paper is not so much to reiterate these general points, 2 but to take it as a given in a comparative survey of two ethnic communities (in Hebrew: edot, sg.: edah) in contemporary Israeli- Jewish society, the Indians and the Ethiopians, and 1 Despite its being under fire from certain Jewish ultra-ortho dox religious groups and, on the other end of the spectrum, from a disenchanted “secular” young generation. 2 See, e.g., Ayalon et al. 1985; Weingrod 1985; Ben-Rafael and Sharot 1991; Goldschneider 1996.

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