Political Ethnography on Israel

Special event for Hebraic Studies and Jewish Studies Alumni
Location:
Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick
Time: 10:30 am
Directions and Parking information(pdf)

Coffee and danish will be served.

Please RSVP by May 4.

Professor Aronoff will discuss the results of the ethnological research he has conducted in Israel for the past forty years. His four major research projects focused on community building and political conflict in a new town in the Negev; the central role played by the Labor party in Israeli politics; the political polarization that ensued following the defeat of Labor as illustrated through an analysis of the state funeral ceremony held for the reputed 2,000 year-old remains of the fighters and followers of Shimon Bar-Kochba; and the conflicting explanations of the failure of the Oslo peace process.

Myron J. Aronoff is a professor of political science and anthropology at Rutgers University where he has taught for twenty-five years. He has published extensively on various aspects of Israeli society, culture, and politics, and in the field of political anthropology–especially the relationship between culture and politics. His books include Israeli Visions and Divisions: Cultural Change and Political Conflict and Power and Ritual in the Israel Labor Party: A Study in Political Anthropology.


This lecture is offered as part of Rutgers Reunion weekend.
Alumni and the public are welcome.