Baruch Kimmerling

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Baruch Kimmerling (born October 16, 1939 in Turda , Transylvania , Romania ; † May 20, 2007 ) was an Israeli sociologist from Romania .

Life

Baruch Kimmerling was born with cerebral palsy . His family narrowly escaped the Holocaust by escaping in a gypsy wagon . In 1952 he immigrated to Israel and studied sociology and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the 1960s . In 1975 he received his doctorate there at Moshe Lissak . After various teaching assignments, he became an associate professor at the Hebrew University in 1989 and a full professor of sociology and anthropology in 1997 . Most recently he held the "George A. Wise Chair of Sociology" there. In addition to his work in Jerusalem, Kimmerling was also an associate visiting professor of sociology at the University of Toronto . In 1987/88 and 1991/92 he was also visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle .

Kimmerling was affected all his life by the consequences of his disability and was dependent on a wheelchair; he suffered from a speech impediment. But that didn't stop him from traveling to conferences around the world. He did not finish teaching until 2007.

Baruch Kimmerling died of complications from cancer . He left behind his wife Diana and three children.

Act

Baruch Kimmerling's main research areas were Israeli society and Israel’s relations with the Arab world and the Palestinians . He stood out as a sharp critic of Israeli society and politics, explicitly calling himself a patriot. Ironically, he also referred to himself as a Zionist who supports the secular ideal in the State of Israel.

He became known in Germany in 2003 with the work Politizid. Ariel Sharon’s war against the Palestinian people in which he accused Ariel Sharon of wanting to destroy the identity of the Palestinian people. Kimmerling published a total of nine important books and hundreds of essays. He was a long-time guest columnist for the Israeli daily Haaretz .

Baruch Kimmerling was involved with the American Sociological Association (ASA) , the International Sociological Association (ISA) , American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Israel Sociological Society, Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America (MESA) and was an elected member of the Inter -University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS).

Quotes

  • "I built a new conceptualization of Israeli society that brought Zionism closer to a certain kind of colonialism." - Baruch Kimmerling, Haaretz 2007

Fonts

  • Zionism and Territory: The Socioterritorial Dimensions of Zionist Politics , 1983
  • Zionism and Economy , 1983
  • The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times , 1985
  • Palestinians: The Making of a People , 1993
  • The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Culture and Military in Israel , 2001
  • The End of Ashkenazic Hegemony , 2001
  • Politicide: Sharon's War Against the Palestinians , 2003 (dt. Politicide Ariel Sharon's war against the Palestinian people. , Kreuzlingen and Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7205-2375-6 )
  • The Palestinian People: A History , 2003, with Joel S. Midgal
  • Immigrants, Settlers and Natives: Israel Between Plurality of Cultures and Cultural Wars , 2003
  • Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies , 2008
  • Marginal at the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist , 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Kimmerling, Baruch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Turda , Transylvania , Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2007