Baruch Kimmerling

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Baruch Kimmerling (born 1939 in Romania, emigrated to Israel in 1952) is a Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is well-known as a sociologist and social-historian. He has a reputation as a vocal critic of Israeli policies and practice related to the Arab-Jewish conflict and the Israeli government.

[edit] Major publications

Zionism and Territory: The Socioterritorial Dimensions of Zionist Politics. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of International Studies, 1983. [289 pages]
Zionism and Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1983. [169 pages]
The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 1985. [229 pages]
Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People. New York: Free Press, 1993, [396 pages]. Paperback enlarged edition: Harvard University Press. Italian version: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1994. Enlarged Edition, 2002 [page 512]. Enlarged and revised Hebrew version: Keter, 1998, 300 pages. Arabic: Ramallah, 2001.
The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Culture and Military in Israel. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 268 pages.
The End of Ashkenazic Hegemony. Jerusalem: Keter, 2001 (Hebrew, 124 pages).
Politicide: Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.
Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 (604 pages).
Immigrants, Settlers, Natives: Israel Between Plurality of Cultures and Cultural Wars. Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2004 (Hebrew, 630 pages).
(As editor) The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. [330 pages]
Sociology of Politics: A Reader. Benyamina: The Open University, 2005 [Hebrew]