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Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies and published by SUNY Press that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. This book brings together review essays commenting on issues in Israeli culture, literature, politics, scholarship, and society. The authors identify a series of recently published books and provide critical commentary. In their examination, they go beyond the works themselves to comment on the state of scholarship and social conditions. Topics covered include Israeli writers' reactions to the Holocaust, critical analyses of the popular Israeli poet and novelist Amnon Shamosh, the linguistic relations between Yiddish and Modern Hebrew, ethnic relations, the emerging "mainstream" of Israeli culture, politics, Israeli historical revisionism, and social, psychological, and political aspects of the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict.
"The interdisciplinary nature of this book gives both breadth and depth to Israeli social issues and scholarship. The topics addressed are quite significant and central to local processes as well as global issues." — Nancy J. Black, Metropolitan State University
Introduction
Walter P. Zenner and Russell A. Stone
I. Literature and Language
Rewriting the Holocaust: An Israeli Case Study in the Sociology of the Novel
Aviad E. Raz
Espionage and Cultural Mediation
Walter P. Zenner
An Authentic Human Voice: The Poetry of Amnon Shamosh
Abraham Marthan
On The Schizoid Nature of Modem Hebrew
Shmuel Bolozky
II. Culture and Society: Gender, Ethnicity, Community
Does Gender Matter?
Madeleine Tress
Studies on Ethnicity
Walter F. Weiker
The Search for Israeliness: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary Mainstream
James Armstrong
III. Social Analysis
From Apparatus to Populus: The Political Sociology of Yonathan Shapiro
Uri Ram
Governing in a Turbulent National Policy Environment
Giora Goldberg and Efraim Ben-Zadok
IV. History and Politics
The Significance of Israeli Historical Revisionism
Jerome Slater
The Utopian Crisis of the Israeli State
Yagil Levy and Yoav Peled
The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Victory of Otherness
Ilan Peleg
The Intercommunal Dimension in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Intifada
Efraim Inbar
List of Contributors