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The Jewish Journal Sociology THE JEWISH JOURNAL SOCIOLOGY EDITOR Maurice Freedman MANAGING EDITOR Judith Freedman VOLUME FIFTEEN 1973 Published on behalf of the World Jewish Congress by William Heinemann Ltd CONTENTS Adult Evaluation of the Young: Jewish Orthodoxy in America: The Case of Israel's Victorious Towards the Sociology of a Youth in the Six-Day War by Residual Category by Egon Mayer 151 E. C. Weiner, A. Cohen, and E. Jews in the Scientific Elite of the Pedorowitz 107 Soviet Union, The by Mordechai Assimilation: A Deviant Pattern Altshuler 45 among the Jews of Inter-War Note on the Function of 'The Law Poland by Celia S. Heiler 221 of the Kingdom is Law' in the Books Received 143, 260 Medieval Jewish Community, A Books Reviewed 3, 149 by Gerald Y. Bhidstein 213 Chronicle 133,256 Noteon Southern Rhodesian Jewry, Communal CohesionthroughPolit- S by batty A. itosmzn 205 ical Strife in an Israeli New Notes on Contributors 145,262 Town by Myron 3. Aronoff 79 Notice to Contributors 4, 150 Correspondence 131 Religious Change in Native Culture and Communication in Orthodoxy in London, 1870- Israel: The Transformation of 1914: Rabbinate and Clergy Tradition by Eli/ju Katz 5 by Stephen Sharot 167 Fertility of Jewish Families in Religious Change in Native Britain, 1971, The by 5.3. Prais Orthodoxy in London, 1870- and Marlena &hnwol 189 1914: The Synagogue Service Israel's Political Structure and by Stephen Sharot 57 Social Issues by David Lazar 23 AUTHORS OF ARTICLES Altshuler, M. 45 Lazar, D. 23 Aronoff, M. J. 79 Mayer, E. 151 Blidstein, G. J. 213 Pedorowitz, E. 107 Cohen, A. 107 Prais,S.J. 189 Helter, C. S. 221 Schmool, M. 18g Katz, E. 5 Sharot, S. 57, 167 Kosmin, B. A. 205 Weiner, E. C. 107 AUTHORS OF EOOK REVIEWS Albrow, M. C. 240, 244, 253 Glikson, P. 24' Aronoff, M. J. 248 Jam, R. K. 126 Banton, M. 120,243 Kochan, L. 246 BelofT, M. 120 Martin, D. 121, 125, 252 Epstein, S. 239 Parkes,J. 128 Freedman, M. 119, 122 Pear, R. H. 247 Geber, B. A. 129 BOOKS REVIEWED Baldwin, E., Djfferentiation and Klapp, 0. E., Heroes, Villains and Co-operation in an Israeli Moshav 239 Fools, Reflections of the American Barbu, Z., Society, Culture and Character 247 - Personality, An Introduction to Leslie, D. D., The Survival of the Social Science 240 Chinese Jews, The Jewish Corn- Cazeneuve, J., Lucien LIvy-Bruhl 119 'nunityofKa/èng 122 Dinnerstein, L., ed., Antisemitism Medding, P. Y., Mapai in Israel: in the United States 120 Political Organization and Govern- Eisenbach, A:, Kwestia ROwnou- ment in a New Society 248 prawn ienia Zyd3w w KrOlestwie O'Neill, J., ed., Modes of Individual- Pols/cim 241 ism and Collectivism 252 Eppel, E. M., ed., Education for Sahay, A., ed., Max 14/eber and Cultural Pluralism 243 Modern Sociology 253 Gainer, B., The Alien Invasion, Stark, W., The Sociology of Religion, The Origins of the Aliens Act of vol. V, Types of Religious Culture 125 1905 120 Strizower, S., The Children of Israel; Glaser, B. G. and Strauss, A. L., the Bent Israel of Bombay '26 Status Passage 244 Wcisgal, M., ed., The Letters and Habermas, J., Knowledge and Human Papers of Chaim Weizmonn 128 Interests 121 Wolins, M. and Gottesman, M., Katz,J., Out oft/it Ghetto, The Social eds., Group Care: an Israeli Background of Jewish Emancipation Approach. The Educational Path of 1770-1870 246 Tout/i Aliyah 129 THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY VOLUME XV NO. 1 JUNE 1973 CONTENTS Culture and Communication in Israel: The Transforma- tion of Tradition Eli/ui Katz, 5 Israel's Political Structure and Social Issues David Lazar 23 The Jews in the Scientific Elite of the Soviet Union Mora'echai Alts/tuler 45 Religious Change in Native Orthodoxy in London, 1870— 1914: The Synagogue Service ' Step/ten Sharol E' Communal Cohesion through Political Strife in an Israeli New Town Myron 7. Aronof 79 Adult Evaluation of the Young: The Case of Israel's Victorious Youth in the Six-Day War E. C. Weiner, A. Cohen, E. Pedorowitz 107 Book Reviews 119 Correspondence 131 Chronicle 133 Books Received 143 Notes on Contributors 145 PUBLISHED TWICE YEARLY on behalf of the World Jewish Congress by William Heincmann Ltd Annual Subscription ff40 (U.S. $4) post free Single Copies 75 ($2.25) Applications for subscriptions should be addressed to the Managing Editor, The Jewish Journal of Sociology, 55 New Cavendish Street, London WiM 8BT - EDITOR Maurice Freedman MANAGING EDITOR Judith Freedman ADVISORY BOARD R. Bachi (Israel) Eugene Minkowski (France) André Chouraqui (France & Israel) S. J. Prais (Britain) M. Davis (Israel) Louis Rosenberg (Canada) S. N. Eisenstadt (Israel) H. L. Shapiro (USA) Nathan Glazer (USA) A. Steinberg (Britain) J. Katz (Israel) A. Tartakower (Israel) 0. Klineberg (USA) (EJ THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS 1973 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER AND TANNER LTD PRONE AND LONDON BOOKS REVIEWED Author Title Reviewer Page Jean Cazeneuve Lucien Levy-Bruhl Maurice Freedman 119 Leonard Dinerstein, ed. Antise,nitis,n in the United Michael Banton 120 States Bernard Gainer The Alien Invasion, The Max Betoff 120 Origins of the Aliens Act of 1905 Jurgen Habermas Knowledge and Human David Martin 121 Interests Donald Daniel Leslie The Survival of the Chinese Maurice Freedman 122 Jews, The Jewish Community of Kajfeng Werner Stark The Sociology of Religion David Martin 125 Schifra Strizower The Children of Israel; the R. K. Jain 126 Bene Israel of Bombay Meyer Wcisgal, ed. The Letters and Papers of James Parkes 128 Chaim Weizmann Martin Wolins and Group Care: an Israeli Beryl A. Geber 129 Meir Gottesman, eds. Approach. The Educational Path of Youth Alyah 3 NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS Papers submitted to The Jewish Journal of Sociology should be addressed to the Managing Editor at 55 New Cavendish Street, London WiM 8BT. The papers must be original. They should not have been published previously, or be committed to publication elsewhere, in any language. When a paper has been accepted for publication, the author may not publish it elsewhere, in any language, without the written consent of the Editor of the J.J.S. MSS. should be typewritten on one side only and double-spaced with ample margins. Pages (including those containing illustrations, diagrams, or tables) should be numbered consecutively. All quotations should be within single inverted commas; quotation marks within quotations should be double inverted commas. Notes should follow the style of this Journal and should be given at the end of the article in numerical sequence according to the order of their citation in the text. Bibliographical Details: Books Give author, title, place of publication, year, and page reference. Underline all titles of books. Articles Place titles of articles within single inverted commas. Underline the title of the book or journal in which the article appears. In the case of a journal, cite numbers of volume and part, and year of publication. PROOFS. Authors making major revisions in proof will be required to bear the cost. Unless proofs are returned to the Managing Editor promptly, authors' corrections cannot be incorporated. OFFPRINTS. Each contributor receives thirty free offprints of his article. CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN ISRAEL: THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITION Elihu Katz HIS paper is an introduction to a study of what 4,000 Israelis had to say about their leisure, culture, and communication. TIn a national survey conducted during the spring of 1970, we gathered data on a large variety of cultural activities.' With respect to each of them, an effort was made to measure both supply and demand. Thus, we know—for cultural events taking place outside the home— which events were advertised where, and we know who attends which activities. Likewise, we studied the cultural activities that take place inside the home, paying particular attention to the effect of the intro- duction of television, and to the fate of the book—the newest and oldest media in Israel. We try to do this within two broader contexts. One is behavioural: using the method of time-budget analysis, we have re- constructed the way in which Israelis invest time, that most scarce of human resources, over the 24-hour period of a weekday, a Friday, and a Saturday. The other context is that of attitudes and values: we discuss the functions of cultural activities and communications within the framework of attitudes towards work, leisure, the Sabbath, and holidays, and more generally, in terms of the social and psychological 'needs' that are experienced as salient by Israeli Jews, in their several social roles. Since facts never speak for themselves, we sought to find a way of presenting this huge array of detailed data as a meaningful whole. Three quite different approaches suggested themselves, of which we rejected two and adopted the third. Three approaches to ordering the data One approach would have been to report on Israel as a small state with modest but essentially modern patterns of leisure and culture. We ELIHU KATZ can demonstrate that Israelis are not very different from the British, for example, in the proportion of the population who are outside their homes on a weekday evening, or in the number of books they read; and not so different from the French in the time they spend caring for child- ren. A good case can be made for the contention that modern societies are becoming homogeneous in their patterns of spending leisure, and that Israel—for all its ostensible difference—is moving in the same general direction.2 Another way in which these findings might have been summed up is in terms of changes which are believed by some to be taking place in Israeli society today.
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