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

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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, [380 pages].
Paperback enlarged edition: Harvard University Press.
Italian version: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1994.
Enlarged and revised Hebrew version: Keter, 1998, 300 pages.
Arabic: Haifa: Al-Ithihad, 2001.

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

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

7. Politicide: Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.

8. Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal A History of the Palestinian People. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

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

10. Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

11. Marginal in the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist. Israel: Hakibutz Hameuhad, 2007.(Hebrew).

Edited Book:

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

Textbook: 

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

Journal Guest Editor:

1. 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:

1. 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.

2. "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.

3. "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.

4. "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. 

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

6. "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.

7. 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.

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

9. "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.

10. 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.

11. "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.

12. 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. 

13. "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.

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

15. “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.

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

17. “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].

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

19. 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.

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

21. “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.

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

23. “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.

24. “Legislation and Jurisprudence in an Immigrant-Settler Society,” Bar Ilan Law Studies, 2001, 16, 1:17-36.

Chapters in Books:

1. 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).

2. “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.

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

4. “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)

5. “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)

6. “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.

7. “Between ‘Alexandria-on-Hudson’ and Zion,” in: The Israeli State and Society,
[Hebrew version in Yahadut Zmanenu, Vol. 4, 1987]. (see item 4)

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

9. “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. 

10. “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.

11. “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]

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

13. “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.

Encyclopedic Entries:

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

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

 Semi-Professional Publications (selected):

Articles:

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

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

3. "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)

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

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

6. “Al-Nakbah,” 50to48, special issue of Theory and Critique, April 1999 [Hebrew].

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

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

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

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

11. “The Roots of Zionist Culture” (review essay), Middle East Studies Association
Bulletin. Vol. 33, Winter, 1999, pp. 154-1 259.

Jerusalem, November 2009 .