25 Facts About Emanuel Marx

Emanuel Marx was a German-born Israeli social anthropologist, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.

Emanuel Marx was a winner of the Israel Prize in 1998 for sociological research, and was an honorary member of the British Royal Anthropological Institute.

Emanuel Marx's father, Yitzhak, was a native of Germany and a clerk in an insurance company, while his mother, Rebecca, a native of Poland, grew up in Germany and ran a leather goods store.

Emanuel Marx attended a Jewish school in the city of Munich.

Emanuel Marx was in the "Moriah" battalion that took part in the battles in Jerusalem.

Emanuel Marx wrote a master's thesis on the Bedouin, under the guidance of Eisenstadt.

Emanuel Marx finally decided to train in the field, which in those days was not taught in the country.

Emanuel Marx did field work for a year and a half in the Abu Gwe'id tribe in the Negev.

Emanuel Marx taught at Tel Aviv University from 1964, when he was appointed a lecturer, and in 1979 he was appointed full professor.

In 1976, Emanuel Marx established an anthropological research department at the Ben-Gurion University Desert Research Institute in Sde Boker and headed it until 1989.

Emanuel Marx was a visiting professor at the universities of Manchester, Berkeley, Brandeis, Cape Town, Oxford, Aegean Islands, and Copenhagen.

Emanuel Marx was married to Dalia, a teacher and educational consultant, and they had three children and eight grandchildren.

Emanuel Marx died on 13 February 2022, at the age of 94.

Emanuel Marx's first book, Bedouin of the Negev, was an adaptation of his doctoral dissertation, published by the University of Manchester Press in 1967.

Emanuel Marx claimed in the book that the "closure" imposed by the military administration on the Bedouin did not serve security needs, but was intended to prevent them from entering the labour market, in order to make it easier for new Jewish immigrants to find employment.

The book deals with a particular type of violence that Emanuel Marx calls social violence.

Emanuel Marx dealt with the bureaucratic context of violence, in that bureaucracy was the cause of violence.

Emanuel Marx suggested that the people supported themselves by hunting and gathering.

Emanuel Marx observed upheavals in the labour markets following the Yom Kippur War and again following the peace negotiations between Egypt and Israel.

Emanuel Marx saw that the Bedouin were investing tireless efforts in building frameworks to ensure their survival, which included strict preservation of heritage, conservation of water resources, agricultural land and transit routes through tribal strengthening, conservation of orchards and herds as an economic alternative, and by stockpiling food supplies.

Emanuel Marx took a year's leave from university to mediate, along with a team of planners, between the Bedouin and the authorities.

Emanuel Marx summarized his experience in this area in an article.

Emanuel Marx explained that the anthropologist could, and perhaps must, assist and advise both study subjects and planning and execution teams, but could not succeed in direct political activity on behalf of the subjects.

Emanuel Marx has closely followed the developments in the Bedouin cities since then.

Emanuel Marx served as a consultant to the master plan of the Bedouin city of Rahat.