Moshe Shokeid

TL;DR: The International Seminar on Judaism and Secular Society (ISSS) as mentioned in this paper was held at Bar-Ilan University in the summers of 1980 and 1982 respectively, with a focus on the integration of Sephardim and Ashkenazim.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the success and failure of this research endeavor, which sought to reveal the process of community and nation-building in the aftermath of mass immigration from Europe and the Middle East, and discuss the existing professional scene and social constraints that influenced the development of anthropology in Israeli academia before and after the Manchester project.

TL;DR: One of the most famous papers ever presented at a history of science meeting was "The Socio-economic Roots of Newton's Principia," given by the Soviet physicist Boris Hessen at the Second International Congress of the History of Science, held in London in 1931 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present observations of gay life conducted in Tel Aviv in 1993 and 1998, showing that despite the invisibility of gay venues and the absence of gay political action, the men studied in 1993 (mostly professionals and artists) nevertheless did not express resentment or a wish to move to the Western havens of Gay life with which they had been acquainted as frequent travellers.