Required reading
Khazzoom, Aziza. “Jews in Israel: Effects of categorization practice on research findings and research frames“. Studies in Contemporary Jewry 2014.
Aziza Khazzoom, “The Great Chain of Orientalism, Jewish Identity, Management and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel”, American Sociological Review, Vol. 68 (August, 2003), pp. 481-510
Identity and categorization I: overview
Khazzoom, Aziza. “Jews in Israel: Effects of categorization practice on research findings and research frames”. Studies in Contemporary Jewry 2014
Identity and categorization II: Orientalism as a frame, connectedness to Arabs
Aziza Khazzoom, “The Great Chain of Orientalism, Jewish Identity, Management and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel”, American Sociological Review, Vol. 68 (August, 2003), pp. 481-510
Ella Shohat, “Rupture and Return: Zionist Discourse and the Study of Arab-Jews”, Social Text, Vol. 21:2, (Summer, 2003), pp. 49-74
Shohat, Ella. “Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims.” Social Text 19/20 (1988): 1-35.
Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Austin: 1989), 3.
Shumsky, Dimitry, “Post-Zionist Orientalism? Orientalist Discourse and Islamophobia among the Russian-Speaking Intelligentsia in Israel”, Social Identities, Vol. 10:1, (2004), pp. 1-18.
Lerner, Julia, Tamar Rapoport, and Edna Lomsky-Feder. “The ethnic script in action: The regrounding of Russian Jewish immigrants in Israel.” Ethos (2007): 168-195.
Jacobson, Abigail and Moshe Naor. 2016. Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine. Waltham. MA: Brandeis University Press.
Behar, Moshe, “Palestine, Arabized Jews and the Elusive Consequences of Jewish and Arab National Formations”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 13: 4, (October, 2007), pp. 581-611.
Behar, Moshe, “Is the Mizrahi Question Relevant to the Future of the Entire Middle East?”, News from Within, Vol. 13:1, (January, 1997), pp. 68–85.
Shenhav, Yehouda A. The Arab Jews: A postcolonial reading of nationalism, religion, and ethnicity. Stanford University Press, 2006.
Sammy Smooha, “Ethnicity as a Factor in the Israeli Jews’ Attitudes toward Arabs” in Kulturen und Konflikte im Vergleich: Festschrift fur Theodor Hanf, ed. by Peter Molt and Helga Dickow (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007) pp. 300-319 ISBN/ISSN: 3832924000
Hochberg, Gil Z. “‘The Mediterranean Option’: On the Politics of Regional Affiliation in Current Israeli Cultural Imagination.” Journal of Levantine Studies 1 (2011): 41-65.
Identity and categorization II: Whiteness as a frame
Sasson‐Levy, Orna. “Ethnic generations: Evolving ethnic perceptions among dominant groups.” The Sociological Quarterly 54.3 (2013): 399-423.
Sasson‐Levy, Orna, and Avi Shoshana. ““Passing” as (Non) Ethnic: The Israeli Version of Acting White.” Sociological Inquiry 83.3 (2013): 448-472.
Shadmi, Erella. “Gendering and racializing israeli jewish ashkenazi whiteness.” Women’s Studies International Forum. Vol. 26. No. 3. Pergamon, 2003.
Steven Kaplan, “Black and White, Blue and White and beyond the Pale: Ethiopian Jews and the Discourse of Color in Israel,” Jewish Culture and History 5, no. 1 (2002), 51-68;
Uri Ben-Eliezer, “Multicultural Society and Everyday Cultural Racism: Second Generation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel’s ‘Crisis of Modernization,'” Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, no. 5 (2008), 935-961;
Lisa Anteby-Yemeni, “From Ethiopian Villager to Global Villager: Ethiopian Jews in Israel,” in Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places, ed. André Levy and Alex Weingrod (Stanford: 2005), 220-244.
Identity and categorization III: Other
Nissim Mizrahi and Hanna Herzog, “Participatory Destigmatization Strategies among Palestinian Citizens, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews in Israel,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 35, no. 3 (2012), 418-435.
Sagiv, Talia. “On the fault line: Israelis of mixed ethnicity.” (2014) (note: I have not read this)
Barbara Okun and Orna Khait-Marelly, “The Impact of Ethnic Intermarriage on Ethnic Stratification: Jews in Israel,” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 28 (2010), 375-394;
Gender and the family
Shavit, Yossi, and Jennifer L. Pierce. “Sibship size and educational attainment in nuclear and extended families: Arabs and Jews in Israel.” American Sociological Review (1991): 321-330.
Orly Benjamin and Tamar Barash, “‘He Thought I Would Be Like My Mother’: The Silencing of Mizrachi Women in Israeli Inter- and Intra-Marriages”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27: 2 (March, 2004), pp. 266–289
Edna Lomsky-Feder and Tali Leibovitz, “Inter-ethnic Encounters within the Family: Competing Cultural Models and Social Exchange,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36, no. 1 (2010), 107-124;
Kalev, Henriette Dahan. “Bargaining with Spiritual Patriarchy: Women in the Shas1 Movement in Israel.” New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion. Springer Netherlands, 2009. 85-101.
Khazzoom, Aziza. “Orientalism at the Gates: Immigration, the East/west divide, and elite Iraqi Jewish women in Israel in the 1950s”. Signs 32(1). 2006. 22 pages, easy.
Sasson-Levy, Orna. “Military, masculinity, and citizenship: Tensions and contradictions in the experience of blue-collar soldiers.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 10.3 (2003): 319-345.
Assimilation framework
Smooha, Sammy. “Jewish Ethnicity in Israel: Symbolic or Real?“ inJews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns, ed. by Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman. (Hanover, NJ: Brandeis University Press, 2004) pp. 47-80 ISBN/ISSN: 1584653272
Smooha, Sammy, “The Mass Immigrations to Israel: A Comparison of the Failure of the Mizrahi Immigrants of the 1950s with the Success of the Russian Immigrants of the 1990s“, Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 27:1, (March, 2009): 1–27
Ephraim Ya’ar, “Continuity and Change in Israeli Society: The Test of the Melting Pot“, Israel Studies, Vol 10:2,(2005), pp. 91-128
Distributive inequality (Mizrahim have less stuff!)
Yinon Cohen and Yitchak Haberfeld, “Second-generation Jewish immigrants in Israel: have the ethnic gaps in schooling and earnings declined?”, Ethnic And Racial Studies, Vol 21:3, (1998), pp. 507-528
Aziza Khazzoom. Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008)
Deborah Bernstein and Shlomo Swirski, “The Rapid Economic Development of Israel and the Emergence of the Ethnic Division of Labour”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33:1, (March, 1982), pp. 64-85
Gershon Shafir, “The Meeting of Eastern Europe and Yemen: ‘Idealistic Workers’ and ‘Natural Workers’ in Early Zionist Settlement in Palestine”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 13:2, (April, 1990), pp. 172-197
Sammy Smooha, Israel: Pluralism and Conflict (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978) ISBN/ISSN: 0710085117
Shavit, Yossi. “Segregation, tracking, and the educational attainment of minorities: Arabs and oriental Jews in Israel.” American Sociological Review (1990): 115-126.
Swirski, Shlomo. Israel, the Oriental majority. Zed Books, 1989.
Momi Dahan, Eyal Dvir, Natalie Mironichev, and Samuel Shye, “Have the Gaps in Education Narrowed?” Israel Economic Review 1, no. 2 (Nov. 2003), 37-69
Uri Cohen and Nissim Leon, “The New Mizrahi Middle Class: Ethnic Mobility and Class Integration in Israel,” Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture 27, no. 1 (2008), 51-64.
Sadi-Nakar, Merav. “The Making of Difference: Psychology, Class and Ethnicity in Action and the Battle Over Special Education”.
Nelly Elias and Adrianna Kemp, “The New Second Generation: Non-Jewish Olim, Black Jews and Children of Migrant Workers in Israel,” Israel Studies 15, no. 1 (2010), 73-94.
Offer, Shira, “The Ethiopian Community in Israel: Segregation and the Creation of a Racial Cleavage”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 30:3, (2007), pp. 461-480.
Politics and Political struggle
Chetrit, Sami Shalom. Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews. Routledge, 2009.
Roby, Bryan K. The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Yoav Peled, “Towards a Redefinition of Jewish Nationalism in Israel? The Enigma of Shas”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21, (1998), pp. 703-727
Yossi Dahan and Gal Levy, “Multicultural Education in the Zionist State – The Mizrahi Challenge”, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 19:5-6, (November, 2000), pp. 423-444
Shlomo Swirski, “The Oriental Jews in Israel: Why Many Tilted toward Begin?”, Dissent, Vol. 31:134, (1984), pp. 71-91
David Lehmann and Batia Siebzehner. Remaking Israeli Judaism: The Challenge of Shas
(London: Oxford University Press, 2006)