Tradition, Innovation, Conflict: Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Israel

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Henry Abramovitch is an anthropologist and Jungian analyst who teaches at the Tel Aviv University Medical School. He has done fieldwork on death customs in Madagascar and Jerusalem. His forthcoming work includes a study ofthe impact of Martin Buber on contemporary psychotherapy. HannaAyalon is lecturer at the School ofEducation and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University. Her areas of interest include sociologyofeducation, social inequality, and quantitative research methods. Mordecai Bar-Lev is senior lecturer in the School of Education of Bar-llan University. He is also head ofthe undergraduate program on informal education, chair of the graduate program in educational sociology, and since 1987 director of the Sociological Institute for CommunityStudies,Bar-llan University. His areas ofinterest includes sociology of education and youth, social history of education and youth, and sociology and history of the kibbutz. Bel\iamin Beit-Hallahmi is associate professor of psychology at the University ofHaifa. He has authored Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Bibliography (1978). Prolegomena to the Psychological Study of Religion (1989), co-authored TheSocialPsychologyojReligion (with Michael Argyle 1975), Twenty Years Later: Kibbutz Children Grown Up (with A. I. Rabin 1982), and The Kibbutz Bibliography (with S. Shur, J. R. Blasi, and A. I. Rabin 1981), and edited Research in Religious Behavior (1973). 306 Abaut the Contributars Eliezer Ben-Rafael is associate professor ofsociology in the Department ofSociologyand Anthropology, Tel-AvivUniversity. His research interests are in ethnicity, terrorism, the kibbutz, and language. He is the author of The Emergence of Ethnicity: Cultural Groups and Social ConflictinIsrael (1982),/srael-Palestine:A Guerrilla Conflict in International Politics (1987), and Status, Power and Conflict in the Kibbutz, (1988). Yoram Bilu Holds ajoint appointment as seniorlecturer in psychology and in sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University. His research interests include Jewish ethnopsychiatry, folk religion, dreams and culture, and Moroccan Jews in Israel. In 1985, he was the first recipient ofthe L. Bryce Boyer Award in psychoanalytic anthropology . Peri Kedem is lecturer in the Psychology Department and School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University. She serves also as the head statistical consultant ofthe PsychologyDepartment, ofthe Institute for the Advancement of Social Integration in Schools, and ofthe Male InfertilityLaboratoryofthe Life Science Department. Her fields ofinterest are methodology, attitudes, ideology, and group identification, with a special interest in psychology and religion. William Shaftir is professor of sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His chief areas of interest include the sociology of religious transformation, professional socialization, and field research methods. His current research includes studies of Montreal's Hassidic community, and the migration and return migration of Canadian Jews to and from Israel. Stephen Sharot is associate professor ofsociologyin the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests are in the sociologyofreligion, ethnicity, class, and historical sociology. He is author ofJudaism: A Sociology (1976), and Messianism, Mysticism, andMagic:A SociologicalAnalysisofJewish Religious Mavements (1982). Zvi Sobel has taught sociology at Miami University (Ohio), Brandeis University, and for the past 20 years at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Hebrew Christianity: The 13th Tribe (1974) and Migrants from the Promised Land (1986). Abaut the Contributors 307 Leonard Weller is professor ofsociology at Bar-Han University. While his main interests are social psychology and the family, he has researched many areas in sociologyand psychology, including biofeedback , mental retardation, ethnicity, religiosity, group dymanics, and delinquency. Ephraim Tabory is senior lecturer and chair of the Department of Sociologyand Anthropologyat Bar-Han University. His main research interests are in religion and religious movements in Israel. ...