Sammy Smooha (; born 1941)[Ram, Uri. Israeli Nationalism: Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge, p. 63] is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa.
Biography
He is recipient of the
Israel Prize.
[ Biography (Hebrew)] He specializes in comparative
ethnic relations, and has researched the internal divisions in
Israeli society, and the society of
Israel in comparative perspective.
Smooha introduced the concept of ethnic democracy, in a book published in 1989.[Smooha, S. The model of ethnic democracy , European Centre for Minority Issues, ECMI Working Paper # 13, 2001, p. 24.] Smooha contends that Israel is a model or archetypical ethnic democracy.[S Smooha, Ethnic democracy: Israel as an archetype Israel, 1997]
Books
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Index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel 2004. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa; Jerusalem: The Citizens' Accord Forum between Jews and Arabs in Israel; Tel Aviv: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2005.
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Autonomy for Arabs in Israel. Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, 1999, 143 pages. (Hebrew).
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Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 2: Change and Continuity in Mutual Intolerance. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1992.
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Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 1: Conflicting and Shared Attitudes in a Divided Society. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989.
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The Orientation and Politicization of the Arab Minority in Israel. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, 1984.
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Israel: Pluralism and Conflict. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978.
