Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, identities, and sociology of language, including Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion (Brill, 2002) and Identity and Social Division (Clarendon, 1994).Yochanan Peres, Ph.D. (1968) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. He has published in the area of ethnicity, public opinion, survey analysis, and sociology of family, including Between Consent and Dissent: Democracy and Peace in the Israeli Mind (with Ephraim Yaar, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).

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