Sammy Smooha

Sammy Smooha
סמי סמוחה
Born	1941
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	Professor of Sociology
Known for	Concept of ethnic democracy
Awards	Israel Prize

Sammy Smooha (Hebrew: סמי סמוחה; born 1941)[1] is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa.

Biography

He is recipient of the Israel Prize.[2] 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.[3] Smooha contends that Israel is a model or archetypical ethnic democracy.[4]

Books

• 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.
• Autonomy for Arabs in Israel. Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, 1999, 143 pages. (Hebrew).
• Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 2: Change and Continuity in Mutual Intolerance. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1992.
• Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 1: Conflicting and Shared Attitudes in a Divided Society. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989.
• The Orientation and Politicization of the Arab Minority in Israel. Haifa: The Jewish-Arab Center, University of Haifa, 1984.
• Israel: Pluralism and Conflict. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978.

References

1. Ram, Uri. Israeli Nationalism: Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge, p. 63
2. Biography (Hebrew)
3. Smooha, S. The model of ethnic democracy Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, European Centre for Minority Issues, ECMI Working Paper # 13, 2001, p. 24.
4. S Smooha, Ethnic democracy: Israel as an archetype Israel, 1997