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Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.
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.
"The sheer number of contributors and the range of essays and topics discussed make this volume a rich source of information on Israeli society, politics, economics, and culture." — Journal of Palestine Studies
"Without a doubt, this is the best volume in the series so far. The writing is superb, the analysis and criticism are cogent, the coverage is broad, and the points of view are varied. I really enjoyed this collection." — James D. Armstrong, coeditor of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture
Introduction
History and Memory
1. Reassessing Israel's Road to Sinai/Suez, 1956: A "Trialogue"
Mordechai Bar-On, Benny Morris and Motti Golani
2. The Holocaust and Its Fifty-Year-Old Commemoration: Have We Reached the Limit?
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Israeli Society: The Jewish Community
3. Controlling Territory: Spatial Dimensions of Social and Political Change in Israel
David Newman
4. "A Nation that Dwelleth Alone": Judaism as an Integrating and Divisive Factor in Israeli Society
Ephraim Tabory
Israeli Society: The Arab Community
5. Palestinians in Israel: Social and Educational Conditions in the 1990s
Ilham Nasser
6. Research on Welfare and Well-being in Israel: A Palestinian Perspective
Khawla Abu Baker
Whither Post-Zionism?
7. Does Post-Zionism Have a Future?
Deborah L. Wheeler
8. The Open Society and Its Enemies: Changing Public Discourse in Israel
Leah Rosen and Ruth Amir
9. Literature as a Response to Paradox: On Reading A.B. Yehoshua's A Journey to the End of the Millennium
Stephen Schecter
Peace Process
10. Anthologizing the Peace Process
Mira Sucharov
11. Power-Relations, Recognition, and Dialogue: The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Amal A. Jamal
12. Economics as a Security Tool in an Era of "Peace" in the Middle East
Maen F. Nsour
Israel Studies Around the World
13. Changing Italian Perspectives on Israel
Antonio Donno
14. Israel Turns Fifty: New Books Published in Germany
Angelika Timm
15. Israel in Chinese Scholarship
Xu Xin
Notes on the Contributors and Editors