Venster op het buitenland. Israël

Samenvatting

An examination of the work of the Sociology Dept. of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1949. Its 1st head was Martin Buber; he was succeeded in 1951 by S. N. Eisenstadt. Its chief subject of research is the arrival and assimilation of Jewish immigrants who come to Israel from all parts of the world. The 3 1st projects dealt with the adaptation of the immigrants to their new environment and the youth movement, and a study of professions based on the Parsonian typology of professional roles. The results of these enquiries are available so far only in Hebrew. The results of a number of smaller projects are summed up in The absorption of immigrants by S. N. Eisenstadt (London, 1954). C. Frankenstein presented the results of sociological and psychological surveys of Oriental Jewish immigrants in Between past and future (Jerusalem, 1953); Y. Talmon-Garbier wrote on social differentiation in cooperative communities (SA 285). She found that the peasant was the most highly esteemed profession in these settlements, with administrators estimated much more lowly; also that Russian and Polish Jews were more highly esteemed than German Jews. I. Langnas.