Baruch Kimmerling
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Department of Sociology and Anthropology                 18 Ha’Narkis street
Hebrew University, Jerusalem                                       Mevaseret Yeresulyem
91 905 Israel                                                                P.O. Box 2521, 90805 Israel.
Phone: (011-977-2) 5883041                                      Phone: (011-972-2) 5333583
e-mail: mskimmer@mscc.huji.ac.il
fax: 972-2-5828247                                                    

Current Residence
33 Burbank Drive
Toronto M2K 1N1
Canada
Telefax: 416-250-5828
Email: bkimmer@chass.utoronto.ca

                                                                                   

Personal
Date of birth: October 16, 1939                               Citizenship: Israeli
Place of birth: Romania                                             Marital Status: married (3 children)
Year of immigration to Israel: 1952                           Spouse: Diana Aidan                                            

Present Positions

George A. Wise Professor of Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.

Education & Academic Background

1963-65: BA in Sociology and Political Science, Hebrew University

1965-69: MA in Sociology (cum laude), Hebrew University

1969-75: Ph.D. in Sociology, Hebrew University (Title of doctoral dissertation: "The

 Territorial Factors in Israeli Nation-Building Process". Tutor:  Professor Moshe Lissak)

Academic and Research Appointments at the Hebrew University

1997:  Full Professor, at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1989-97: Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1983:  Senior Lecturer (with tenure) Department of Sociology.

1978-82:  Lecture, Dept. of Sociology.

1965-78:  Diverse Junior Research and Teaching positions at the Hebrew University

                                          

Teaching and Visiting in other Institution

­1978-79: Research Fellow at Center of International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.  

1991-92:  Visiting Professor, Henry Jackson School for International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.

1987-88: Visiting Associate Professor, Henry Jackson School for International Studies, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.

Courses Taught:

  • Sociology of Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Sociology of Zionist Movement
  • Civil-Military Relations
  • The Controversy over Sociobiology
  • Power in State and Society
  • War, State and Society
  • Social Structure of Palestinian Society
  • Sociology and History
  • Contemporary Israeli Society
  • Readings in Contemporary Sociological Theories
  • Sociology of Politics

Roles at the Hebrew University

  • 1995-97: Co-ordinator of MA program in Sociology.
  • 1994:  Editor-in-chief of "Eshkolot" books series - Magnes  - Hebrew University Press.
  • 1985-87:  Director of Center for Study and Documentation of Israeli Society, Hebrew University.
  • 1977-81:  Advanced (doctoral) Studies Advisor.

 

Roles in other Institutions

  • 1989-93:  Board of Directors - Israel Studies Association (USA)
  • 2002: Editorial Board of International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
  • 1994: Editorial Board of Theoriya u'Bikoret [Theory and Critique- Hebrew periodical].
  • 1980-1988: Consulting editor of Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
  • 1978-79:  Research Fellow, Center for International Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • 1998: Corresponding editor of Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.    
  • 1962-68:  Free Lance writer for newspapers and Israeli Broadcasting Service.

Membership in Professional Associations

  • American Sociological  Association
  • International  Sociological  Association
  • American Political Science Association
  • Israel Sociological  Society
  • Inter-Universitary Seminar on Armed Forces and  Society  [elected]
  • Middle Eastern Studies Association.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • Peretz Naftali Award, 1972-73   -  $10,000
  • Research Fellowship, MIT, Center for International Studies, 1978-1979
  • (with M. Lissak and V. Azarya) Israel Foundation Trustees  [Ford, No. 12], 1983-85 – $30,000.
  • (with V. Azarya) Israel National Council for Research and Development, 1982-1984 –  $5,000.
  • (with V. Azraya) Research Grant of Inter-Universitary Seminar on Armed Forces and  Society, 1983 -  $2,000.
  •  Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award, 1985 -  $2,000
  • Stroum Fellowship for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 1987-88 -   $12,000.
  • United States Institute of Peace [USIP-007-2-90], 1990 -  $25,000.
  • Eshkol Institute, 1993   -   $10,000.
  • Silber Center Grant for research of Israeli Society, 1997/98 -  $10,000
  • “The Role of Arab and Russian-speaking Immigrant Intellectual-Elites in Construction of Collective Identities and Subcultures in Israel”. Israel Foundation Trustees   – $22,000.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

1. Zionism and Territory: The Socioterritorial Dimensions of  Zionist Politics. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of International Studies, 1983. [289 pages]

2. Zionism and Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1983. [169 pages]

3. The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 1985. [229 pages]

4. Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People. New York: Free Press, 1993, [396 pages].

Paperback enlarged edition: Harvard University Press.
Italian version: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1994. Enlarged Edition, 2002 [page 512].
Enlarged and revised Hebrew version: Keter, 1998, 300 pages.
Arabic: Ramallah, 2001.

5. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Culture and Military in Israel.  Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 268 pages.

6. The End of Ashkenazic Hegemony. Jerusalem: Keter, 2001 (Hebrew, 124 pages).

7.  Politiciz: Ariel Sharons Krieg gegen das Palặstinensische Volk. Mữnchen: Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 2003, (224 pages).
English: Politicide: Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso.
Italian: Fazi.
France: Vienot.

8. Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 (604 pages).

9. Immigrants, Settlers and Natives: Israel Between Plurality of Cultures and Cultural Wars. Tel Aviv: Am Oved (forthcoming December, 2003, Hebrew, 650 pages).

Edited Book:

10. The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. [330 pages]

Textbook 

11. Between State and Society: The Sociology of Politics. Tel Aviv: Open University. (Two volumes, 435 pages, in Hebrew, 1995). Reader

12. The Changing Meanings and Boundaries of Politics. Tel-Aviv: The Open University (forthcoming in 2004, about 650 pages, in Hebrew).

Journal Guest Editor

13.  Political Sociology at Crossroads, Current Sociology [special issue on recent developments in political sociology around the world], Vol. 44, No. 3, 1996, 178 pages.

Papers and Monographs in Referee Journals

14.  Dan Horowitz and Baruch Kimmerling, "Some Social Implications of Military Service and the Reserves System in Israel," European Journal of Sociology, Vol.15, No. 2, pp. 252-276, 1974.

15. "Anomie and Integration in Israeli Society and the Salience of the Arab-Israeli Conflict," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1974, pp. 64-89.

16. "Sovereignty, Ownership and Presence in the Jewish-Arab Territorial Conflict: The Case of Bir'm and Ikrit," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1977, pp. 155-176.

17. "Determination of the Boundaries and the Frameworks of Conscription: Two Dimensions of Civil-Military Relations in Israel," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 14, Spring 1979, pp.24-41.                              

18. Victor Azarya and Baruch Kimmerling, "New Immigrants in the Israeli Armed Forces," Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1980, pp. 455-484.  

19. "A Model for Analysis of Reciprocal Relations Between the Jewish and Arab Communities in Mandatory Palestine," Plural Societies, Vol.14. Nos. 3/4, 1983, pp. 45-68.

20. Baruch Kimmerling and Irit Backer, "Voluntary Action and Location in the System: The Case of Israeli Civilians in the 1973 War," Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 18, No. 1. pp. 1-16.

21. "Change and Continuity in the Zionist Territorial Politics," Comparative Politics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1982, pp. 191-210.

22. "Making Conflict a Routine: The Cumulative Effects of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Upon Israeli Society," Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1983, pp. 13-45.

23. Baruch Kimmerling and Irit Backer, "Interruption and Continuity: The Israeli Civilian Institutional Arrangements During Wars," International Review of Modern Society, Vol. 15. No. 1-2, 1985, pp. 81-98.

24. "Peace for Territories: A Macro-Sociological Analysis of the Concept of Peace in Zionist Ideology," Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1987, pp. 13-34.

25. Victor Azarya and Baruch Kimmerling "Cognitive Permeability of Civil-Military Boundaries: Expectations from Military Service in Israel," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter 1985-86, pp. 42-63.                    

26. "Ideology, Sociology and Nation Building: The Palestinians and Their Meaning in Israeli Sociology," American Sociological Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 August, 1992, pp. 446-460.

27. “Patterns of Militarism in Israel,” European Journal of Sociology, 2, pp. 1993, 1-28.

28. “State Building, State Autonomy, and the Identity of Society: The Case of the Israeli State,” The Journal of Historical Sociology, 1993, 6,4:397-429.

29. Dahlia Moore and Baruch Kimmerling, “Individual Strategies of Adopting Collective Identities: The Israeli Case,” International Sociology, 1995, 4:387-408.

30. “Academic History Caught in the Cross-Fire: The Case of Israeli-Jewish Historiography,” History and Memory, 1995, 7, 4:41-65.

[enlarged Hebrew version: “History, Here and Now,” in Y.  Weitz (ed.) Zionist Historiography: Between Vision and Revision. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 1997].

31. “Changing Meanings and Boundaries of the ‘Political’” Current Sociology, 1996, 44,  3:152-176.

32. Baruch Kimmerling and Dahlia Moore, “Collective Identity as Agency, and Structuration of Society: Tested by the Israeli Case,” International Review of Sociology, 1997, 7, 1:25-50.

33. “Between Hegemony and Dormant Kulturkampf in Israel,” Israel Affairs, 1998, Vol. 4, Nos. 3 –4, pp. 49-72.

34. “Political Subcultures and Civilian Militarism in A Settler-Immigrant Society,” in Concerned with Security: Learning from Israel’s Experience. D. Bar-Tal, D. Jacobson and A. Kliemann (eds.). Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1998, pp. 395-416.

35. “Process of Formation of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Colonial Periods,” Middle Eastern Studies, April 2000, 36, 2, pp. 48-81.

 36. “Religion, Nationalism and Democracy in Israel,” Constellations, 1999, 6, 3:339-363. Hebrew version: Zmanim, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv’s University School of History, 50, December, 1994.

37. “Jurisdiction in an Immigrant-Settler Society: The ‘Jewish and Democratic State,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 35, No.10, December, 2002 , pp.1119-1144.

Hebrew version in Bar Ilan Law Studies, 2001, 16, 1:17-36.

Monographs and Chapters in Books

38. Baruch Kimmerling and Moshe Lissak, Inner Dualism: An Outcome of the Center-Periphery Relationships During Modernization Processes in Uganda, Sage Research Papers in Social Sciences, Studies in Comparative Modernization Series. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979. (45 pages).

39. “The Israeli Civil Guard,” in Louis A. Zurcher and Gwyn Harries-Jenkins (eds.) Supplementary Military Forces: Reserves, Militias, Auxiliaries. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1978, pp. 107-125.

40. “The Economic Interrelationships Between the Arab and Jewish Communities in Mandatory Palestine.” Cambridge, Mass: Center for International Studies, MIT, 1979. (79 pages).

41. “Social Interruption and Besieged Societies: The Case of Israel,” Amherst: The Council of International Studies, The State University of  New York at Buffalo, 1979. (38 pages)

42. “A Conceptual Framework for Analysis of Behavior in a Territorial Conflict: The Generalization of the Israeli Case,” Jerusalem: Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, the Hebrew University, 1979. (30 pages)

43. “Between the Primordial and Civil Definitions of the Collective Identity: The State of Israel or Eretz Israel,” In: E. Cohen, M. Lissak and U. Almagor (eds.) Comparative Social Dynamics: Essays in Honor of Shmuel Eisenstadt. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1984, pp. 262-283.

44. “Between ‘Alexandria-on-Hudson’ and Zion,” in: The Israeli State and Society,

[Hebrew version in Yahadut Zmanenu, Vol. 4, 1987]. (see item 4)

45. “Boundaries and Frontiers of the Israeli Control System- Analytical Conclusions,” in: The Israeli State and Society. (see item 4) 

46.  “Discontinuities in Elite Recruitment in Israeli Society,” in  I.  Lustick (ed.) Books on Israel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988, pp. 72-78.       

47. “The Power-Oriented Settlement: Bargaining between Israelis and Palestinians,” in The PLO and Israel: From The Road to the Oslo Agreement and Back?” M. Ma’oz and A. Sela (eds.). New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997,  pp. 223-251.

48. “Elections as a Battleground over Collective Identity,” Elections in Israel: 1996. A. Arian and Michal Shamir (eds.). Albany : New York State University Press, 1999, pp. 27-44.[Hebrew version published by Israel Institute for Democracy]

49. “Elites and Civil Societies in Middle East,” E.S. Brezis and P. Temin  (eds.) Elites,  Minorities and Economic Growth.  Rotterdam:  Elsevier, 1999, Chapter 4.

50. “The Social Construction of Israel’s National Security,” Stuart A. Cohen (ed.) Democratic Societies and their Armed Forces: Israel in Comparative Context. London: Frank Cass, 2000, pp.  215-252.

51. “Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons: The Secret Discourse of Israeli Elites,” Majid al-Haj and Uri Ben-Eliezer (eds.) In the Name of Security: The Sociology of War and Peace in Israel in Changing Times. Haifa: Haifa University Press, 2003, pp. 77-102.

  

Encyclopedia Entries

52. “Arthur Rupin,” “Alfred Bonne,” Yonina Gerber-Talmon,” in  Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Band 1. W. Bernsdorf und H. Knospe (eds.) Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlage, 1980. [German]

53. "Israel," The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, ed. Joel Krieger, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 [revised edition, 2001].

54. “Israel, Religions in,” Worldmark Encyclopedia  of Religious Practices. New York: Gale Groups, forthcoming.

 

Semi-Professional Publications (selected):

55. "The Battle Over the Hegemony," Politika, 31. March 1991 [Hebrew]

56. "On Knowledge of the Place..." (“Al-Daat Ha’Makom”) Alpayim, 1992, 6:57-68 [Hebrew].

57. "La graande missere des ideologues: La paix possible, on peut enfin etudier la realite du passe, sans fard," Courrier International, 210, 10-16 November 1994. (French)

58. "On Elections in Israel," Middle East Report, 1996, 26, 4:14-18.

59. “Between Celebration of Independence and Commemoration of al-Nakbah: The Controversy over the Roots of the Israeli State,” MESA Bulletin, July 1998.

60. “Al-Nakba,” 50-48, special issue of Theory and Critique, April 1999 [Hebrew].

61. "The Political Culture of Israel," in M. Lissak and B. Knei-Paz (eds.) Israel  Towards the 2000’s. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1996 [Hebrew].

62.  “Shaking the Foundation,” Index on Censorship,  1995, 3:47-52.

63. “Unholy Covenant,” Index on Censorship, 1996, 4:146-148. 

64. “Weder demokratisch noch judisch,” Informationsprojectkt Naher und Miltterer Osten, 1998, 13:12-15  [German].

65. “The Roots of Zionist Culture” (review essay), Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.  Vol. 33, Winter, 1999, pp. 154-159.

66. “From Barak to Road Map,” New Left Review,” September-October, 2003, pp.134-144.