Review Essays in Israel Studies Vol. V : Books on Israel

by Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain; Caplan, Neil

• ISBN13: 9780791444221
• ISBN10: 0791444228
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Representing a wide array of disciplines: economics, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and sociology, this book offers original examinations of the state of scholarship about Israel, as well as insightful assessments of contemporary Israeli society, politics, economy, and culture. The contributors review and analyze more than sixty recent publications, half of them in Hebrew or Arabic, showcasing important literature not readily accessible to European and North American readers. Continuing the tradition established by the preceding volumes, Review Essays in Israel Studies offers a rich and varied treatment of new scholarship and enhances our understanding of Israel studies today.

Author Biography

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is a Visiting Associate Professor in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University Neil Caplan teaches in the Humanities Department of Vanier College, Montreal, Canada Hemda Ben-Yehuda is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar Ilan University Hanita Brand is a Lecturer in Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Nitza Druyan is the Director of the Long Island Center for Jewish Studies and teaches in the Jewish Studies Program of Hofstra University David C. Jacobson is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University Muhammad Muslih is Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus Maen F. Nsour is the Director of the Economic Aid Coordination Department at the Ministry of Planning, Amman, Jordan. He is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University and an adjunct faculty member of the Political Science Department, University of Jordan Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College David Rodman is free-lance writer Yaakova Sacerdoti is a Lecturer in Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ofira Seliktar is Ann and Bernard Cohen Associate Professor of Israel Studies at Gratz College and a consultant on the Middle East Water Resources Project at the University of Pennsylvania Tobe Shanok is an independent scholar Jeffrey Sosland is a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia Deborah A. Starr is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Michigan Naomi Weinberger is an Associate Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute of Columbia University and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University Eyal Zisser is a Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and a Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Ivory Tower and Embassy	7	(22)
Itamar Rabinovich
Part I: History, Economics, and Politics
The Yishuv's Early Capabilities: Organization, Leadership, and Policies	29	(18)
Tobe Shanok
The Transition to a Market Economy: The Road Half Taken	47	(16)
Ofira Seliktar
Israel as a Liberal Democracy: Civil Rights in the Jewish State	63	(18)
Ilan Peleg
``Normal'' or ``Special''? Israel's Relationships with America and Germany in Historical Perspective	81	(18)
David Rodman
Part II: Society and Culture
Mythmaking and Commemoration in Israeli Culture	99	(20)
David C. Jacobson
Prophecy of Wrath: Israeli Society as Reflected in Satires for Children	119	(18)
Yaakova Sacerdoti
Women's Issues in the Literary Marketplace: Anthologies of Israeli Women Writers	137	(16)
Hanita Brand
Yemenite Jews on the Zionist Altar	153	(20)
Nitza Druyan
Part III: Israel in the Region
Policy Transformation in the Middle East: Arms Control Regimes and National Security Reconciled	173	(20)
Hemda Ben-Yehuda
Palestinian Sovereignty and Israeli Security: Dilemmas of the permanent-Status Negotiations	193	(28)
Naomi Weinberger
The Domestic-International Confluence: The Challenge of Israel's Water Problems	221	(20)
Jeffrey Sosland
Part IV: Views of Israel from the Arab World
On Opposite Sides of the Hill: Syrian and Israeli Perspectives	241	(22)
Eyal Zisser
Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization?	263	(20)
Deborah A. Starr
Arab-Israeli Economic Relations and Relative Gains Concerns	283	(26)
Maen F. Nsour
The Debate over Normalization: Adonis and His Arab Critics	309	(8)
Muhammad Muslih
Contributors	317