Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel

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Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology General Editor Dan Ben-Amos University of Pennsylvania Advisory Editors Tamar Alexander-Frizer Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Samuel G. Armistead University of California, Davis Haya Bar-Itzhak University of Haifa Simon J. Bronner Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Harvey E. Goldberg Hebrew University Yuval Harari Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Galit Hasan-Rokem Hebrew University Rella Kushelevsky Bar-Ilan University Eli Yassif Tel-Aviv University wayne state university press detroit Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel Beverly Mizrachi © 2013 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mizrachi, Beverly. Paths to middle-class mobility among second-generation Moroccan immigrant women in Israel / Beverly Mizrachi. pages cm. — (Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8143-3881-0 (cloth. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8143-3858-2 (ebook) 1. Women immigrants—Israel—Social conditions. 2. Moroccans—Israel— History. 3. Immigrants—Israel—History. 4. Social mobility—Israel. I. Title. HQ1728.5.M597 2013 305.5’13095694--dc23 2012029605 Typeset by Alpha Design & Composition of Pittsfield NH Composed in Adobe Garamond Pro and Walbaum This book is dedicated to my dear friend, Like Roos (1933–2004) who made so many things possible and To those women who struggle daily, in myriad ways, to create a life of their own choosing ...