Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies Vol. 6 : Books on Israel

by Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain; Caplan, Neil; Sokoloff, Naomi B.; Abu-Nimer, Mohammed; Association for Israel Studies

• ISBN13: 9780791455852
• ISBN10: 0791455858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This sixth volume in the Books on Israel series is an interdisciplinary compilation that encompasses contributions from both the social sciences and the humanities, and reflects the exciting integration of approaches that are on the cutting edge of Israel Studies. The contributors go beyond the review of recent books on Israel to offer original examinations of the state of scholarship about Israel within the various disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, literature, political science, and sociology. Recent trends in contemporary Israeli society, politics, economics, and culture are also explored.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
History and Memory
Reassessing Israel's Road to Sinai/Suez, 1956: A ``Trialogue''	3	(40)
Mordechai Bar-On
Benny Morris
Motti Golani
The Holocaust and Its Fifty-Year-Old Commemoration: Have We Reached the Limit?	43	(24)
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Israeli Society: The Jewish Community
Controlling Territory: Spatial Dimensions of Social and Political Change in Israel	67	(22)
David Newman
``A Nation that Dwelleth Alone'': Judaism as an Integrating and Divisive Factor in Israeli Society	89	(26)
Ephraim Tabory
Israeli Society: The Arab Community
Palestinians in Israel: Social and Educational Conditions in the 1990s	115	(20)
Ilham Nasser
Research on Welfare and Well-being in Israel: A Palestinian Perspective	135	(24)
Khawla Abu Baker
Whither Post-Zionism?
Does Post-Zionism Have a Future?	159	(22)
Deborah L. Wheeler
The Open Society and Its Enemies: Changing Public Discourse in Israel	181	(22)
Leah Rosen
Ruth Amir
Literature as a Response to Paradox: On Reading A.B. Yehoshua's A Journey to the End of the Millennium	203	(18)
Stephen Schecter
Peace Process
Anthologizing the Peace Process	221	(18)
Mira Sucharov
Power-Relations, Recognition, and Dialogue: The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Peace	239	(24)
Amal A. Jamal
Economics as a Security Tool in an Era of ``Peace'' in the Middle East	263	(22)
Maen F. Nsour
Israel Studies Around the World
Changing Italian Perspectives on Israel	285	(18)
Antonio Donno
Israel Turns Fifty: New Books Published in Germany	303	(18)
Angelika Timm
Israel in Chinese Scholarship	321	(20)
Xu Xin
Notes on the Contributors and Editors	341