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Author Rozin, Orit

Title The rise of the individual in 1950s Israel : a challenge to collectivism / Orit Rozin ; translated by Haim Watzman
Published Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Ppress, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 254 p.)
Series The Schusterman series in Israel studies
Contents Austerity: desperate housewives and the government -- Austerity and the rule of law -- The law enforcement s -- In the city square -- Austerity tested: the local elections of 1950 -- The municipal election results and their significance -- From poll to poll: the elections for the Second Knesset -- The outcome of the elections to the Second Knesset -- Somewhere in the transit camp -- Terms of abhorrence: how old-time Israelis viewed immigrants from the Islamic World -- Parents, parenting, and children -- The construction of a collective: relations between immigrants and old-time Israelis. 000
Summary A provocative history of Israeli society in the 1950s that demonstrates how a voluntarist collectivism gave way to an individualist ethos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index
Notes English
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Subject Individualism -- Political aspects -- Israel -- History -- 20th century
Collectivism -- Political aspects -- Israel -- History -- 20th century
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
HISTORY / General
Economic history
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Individualism -- Political aspects
Manners and customs
Social conditions
SUBJECT Israel -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Israel -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Israel -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Israel
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021695095
ISBN 9781611680829
1611680824
128332086X
9781283320863
Other Titles Ḥovat ha-ahavah ha-ḳashah. English