Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics, and Culture is the second volume in a series devoted to imaginative and critical consideration of recent books on Israel. It is a forum allowing some of the most insightful students of Israeli affairs, both in Israel and in the United States, to examine trends in Israeli literature and in scholarship pertaining to all aspects of Israeli life. Each contributor approaches Israel from a different angle, offering anthropological, religious, political, literary, and historical perspectives.
Topics attracting particular attention in this volume include the psychological reactions of Israelis who emigrate from their country and the portrayal of the emigrant in Israeli literature; human rights; the role and content of the Jewish fundamentalist movement in Israel; changing relations to the Palestinian leadership in the occupied terrorists; the emerging issue of Israel as a binational society; psychoanalytic and political motifs in contemporary Israeli fiction; and the controversial findings of Israel’s newest wave of ‘revisionist’ historians.
Daftar Isi
Preface
History and Politics
Revisionism and the Reconstruction of Israeli History
Steven Heydemann
Ambiguities of a ‘Binational’ Israel
Myron J. Aronoff
Ideological Politics or the Politics of Demography: The Aftermath of the Six-Day-War
Gershon Shafir
Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Political Action
Stewart Reiser
Testing for Democracy in Israel
Uri Ben-Eliezer
Society, Culture, and Religion
Between the Promised Land and the Land of Promise: Israeli Emigration and Israeli Identity
Tamar Katriel
National Neurosis in Israeli Literature: A. B. Yehoshua
Aliza Shenhar
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
Kevin Avruch
Exploring Answers to Zionism’s Decay: Two Israeli Authors Discover Happiness
Eve Jacobson
Foreign Relations
Human Rights in Israel’s Territories: Politics and Law in Interaction
Ilan Peleg
American Public Opinion toward Israel and the Palestinians
Asher Arian
Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank
Elie Rikhess
About the Contributors
About the Editors
Tentang Penulis
Topics attracting particular attention in this volume include the psychological reactions of Israelis who emigrate from their country and the portrayal of the emigrant in Israeli literature; human rights; the role and content of the Jewish fundamentalist movement in Israel; changing relations to the Palestinian leadership in the occupied terrorists; the emerging issue of Israel as a binational society; psychoanalytic and political motifs in contemporary Israeli fiction; and the controversial findings of Israel’s newest wave of ‘revisionist’ historians.
Barry Rubin is a Senior Fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute.