The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism

by Orit Rozin

In this sharply argued volume, Orit Rozin reveals the flaws in the conventional account of Israeli society in the 1950s, which portrayed the Israeli public as committed to a collectivist ideology. In fact, major sectors of Israeli society espoused individualism and rejected the state-imposed collectivist ideology. Rozin draws on archival, legal, and media sources to analyze the attitudes of black-market profiteers, politicians and judges, middle-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611680816
• ISBN13: 9781611680812
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"