{"id":274,"date":"2023-03-29T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/nissimmizrachi\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:48:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/nissimmizrachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n
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Nissim Mizrachi is a full professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University and served as head of the department from 2013 to 2016. He holds a B.A. and M.A. (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation, and his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge, medicine, and culture, social boundaries, social identity and morality, liberalism, and the study of ethnicity and stigma. He is the author and co-author of eight books, edited volumes, and special issues as well as dozens of articles. His early research dealt with mind-body relations in the history and practice of modern medicine. Since the second decade of the 2000s, he has been studying the crisis of liberalism as a moral and political vision and as a critical research position. In addition to these issues, he has also conducted, along with Mich\u00e8le Lamont and an international team of researchers, a series of international studies on how people belonging to minority groups cope with stigma. Lamont and Mizrachi co-edited and co-authored in 2016 (with other international researchers) the book Getting Respect (Princeton University Press, 2016). Mizrachi has also published several articles in Hebrew and English proposing a new, \u201cpostliberal\u201d outline for research and critique. His new book, Beyond Suspicion: The Moral Clash Between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism (University of California Press, 2024), deals with the roots of the clash between the liberal-progressive vision, prevalent in the humanities and social sciences and in contemporary radical left circles, and the \u201crooted\u201d grammar that characterizes most communities in Israel and around the world. <\/p>\n Listen to the interview<\/a>\n

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Beyond Suspicion<\/h1>\n

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The Moral Clash between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/b> For more than four\ndecades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim\u2014descendants of Jews from\nMiddle Eastern and North African communities\u2014have continuously supported\nright-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists\ntend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more\ncrudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locates the\nsource of their so-called paradoxical behavior within the limitations of the\nliberal grammar by which their outlook and behavior are read. In Beyond\nSuspicion, Mizrachi turns the direction of inquiry back on itself, contrasting\nliberal grammar\u2014which values autonomy, equality, and universal reason and\nmorality as the only authentic human choice\u2014with the grammar of rootedness, in\nwhich the self is experienced through a web of relational commitments, temporal\nties, and codes of collective identity. Recognizing rootedness as a fundamental\nneed and desire for belonging is necessary to understand both scholarly and political\nrifts in Israel and throughout the world.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Reviews<\/b> \"With profound\nlessons for us all, this book excavates the rootedness at the heart of\nright-populist politics in Israel. In seeing his subjects fully, Nissim\nMizrachi turns the mirror on ourselves to show us how our constricted vision\nlimits the appeal of our ideas to the very people whose rights we claim to\nfight for. This book powerfully redefines our understanding of the illiberal\nworld we increasingly inhabit.\"\u2014Ann Swidler, Professor of the Graduate\nSchool, University of California, Berkeley
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\"In challenging\nsociological orthodoxy, Mizrachi dares us to conceptualize the social actor\nbeyond our own dominant liberal paradigms. His extensive research among Mizrahi\nJews calls into question prevalent ideas of individual autonomy, forcing us to\nrecognize the role of rootedness and belonging in the self-conception of\nmillions in Israel\u2014and beyond.\"\u2014Adam Seligman, Professor of Religion,\nBoston University\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
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Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective<\/h4>\n

Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to these developments. <\/p>\n Buy<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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