Both sides now : Ethiopian Israeli girls between jewishness and blackness
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores being and becoming "Jews" in Israel through the perspective of four teenage girls, whose lived experiences between Israel and Ethiopia and Jewishness and Blackness mirrors the dynamics of religion and race, statecraft and nation-building in Israel. My focus on "becoming" Jews aims to engineer a conceptual shift within the study of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, from addressing competing perceptions of their Jewishness or Blackness to examining how unresolved yet consequential tensions between Jewishness as a religious tradition, a national identity and a state apparatus in Israel resulted in Ethiopian Jews becoming marginalized as "Black Jews:" beyond the scope of Jewish religion, nationality, and equal citizenship in the Jewish State. Guided by Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods from the field of public health, a learning-ecology framework, and the ethnographic lenses of thin description (Jackson, 2013), I examine critical issues like inequality in religious education and informal learning environments, through these girls' everyday choices of words, clothes and pathways for action. I analyze state reports, legislation and official letters to situate their lived experience within the complex historio-political context of Israel's becoming a Jewish state. Together these methods enable me to relate their situated learning experience to our growing understanding of Jewishness as an Israeli state-practice, as well as to craft mutually-educative paths for researchers and participants in the production of scientific knowledge.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Shalev Marom, Marva |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Kelman, Ari Y, 1971- |
| Thesis advisor | Kelman, Ari Y, 1971- |
| Thesis advisor | Labaree, David F, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Rosa, Jonathan |
| Degree committee member | Labaree, David F, 1947- |
| Degree committee member | Rosa, Jonathan |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Marva Shalev Marom. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pq438ht2129 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Marva Shalev Marom
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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