Yehouda Shenhav
Jude Schenhaw; originally Jude Schaharabani, heb. יהודה שנהב; ( Born February 26, 1952 in Beersheba ) is an Israeli sociologist, representatives of critical theory, a professor at Tel Aviv University and a founder of the Mizrachi Democratic Rainbow.
Life
Schenhaws father worked in the Israeli secret service. When Jude was three years old, the family moved to Tel -Aviv, and when he was ten years old, after Petah Tikva. He studied sociology at the University of Tel -Aviv and later at Stanford University, where in 1985 he received his doctorate.
In addition to his professorship at the University of Tel -Aviv taught Schenhaw also at various universities in the United States. Since 2000 he is the editor of Theory and Criticism, and in 2003 one of the editors of Organizational studies.
Political activity
In a late 1996 article, he wrote that the Ashkenazi intellectual elite have no problem to recognize the injustice that was done to the Palestinians, because it does not endanger their position within the Israeli society. However, if the injustice would be recognized at the Mizrahi, this would bring the pyramid of Israeli society to falter.
The identity politics of the rainbow is criticized from different sides.
Sociology
Rationality and bureaucracy
Schenhaw contradicted in his 1999 published in the Oxford University Press book Manufacturing rationality, the concept of bureaucracy by Max Weber. He claimed that the system is not necessarily accurate and efficient, but cultural, social and economic dependent. He showed how the ideology that developed Frederick Winslow Taylor, was adapted to the power of managing not only to the workers but also against the capitalists enlarge.
Stratification and ethnicity
In 2006 appeared Schenhaws book, The Arab Jews - A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity. This Schenhaws treats the two great themes of Arab Jews in Israel and the Palestinian refugees in which he works against the current segregation of the two subjects. It analyzes how the two topics were on the part of the Ashkenazi elite cut off from each other.
Postcolonialism and multiculturalism
Schenhaw describes the encounter between the Ashkenazim with the local Arabs and Arab Jews as a colonial encounter. He published texts by Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha and Edward Said. His program, Israeli society is to be a multicultural, includes feminist, postcolonial and postmodern aspects. Identity is a fluid and dynamic concept here.
Books in English
- Manufacturing rationality. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999
- The Arab Jews - A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2006
- Beyond the Two - State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay. UK: Polity Press, 2012