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Article: Creating a new society: immigration, nation-building, and ethnicity in Israel.
- Article from:
- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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CALVIN GOLDSCHEIDER is Professor of Sociology and Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University.
More than most countries, Israel has been shaped by immigration. The large number of immigrants to Israel relative to the native-born population, the diverse national origins of the immigrant streams, and the powerful ideological underpinnings of Israel's immigration policies are unique in comparative context. In combination, these features have been critical in nation-building and have had profound implications for the emergence of Israeli society. These implications have ranged from the demographic impact of numbers to the complexities of politics, from ...