Original review essays that provide critical commentary on recently published books and films on Israeli society, culture, politics, and religion.
This book is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. It brings together original review essays commenting on issues in Israeli society, culture, politics, religion, literature, and film. The authors’ evaluations of recently published books go beyond critical commentary on the works themselves to include the state of scholarship and social conditions. Among the issues addressed are the conflict over water resources, the human dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, local governance, and the court system. The book provides reviews and commentary, not only on scholarly works but also on memoirs of military leaders at the time of the Yom Kippur war, Sephardi novels on the shock of immigration and on Israeli orthodox Judaism, and politically oriented cinema and literature of the 1980s and 1990s.
Table of Content
Introduction
Walter P. Zenner and Kevin Avruch
PART I: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
1. Water in the Arab-Israeli Struggle: Conflict or Cooperation?
Ofira Seliktar
2. Dialogue and National Consensus in the Pre-Madrid Period: Dilemmas of Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
PART II: SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT
3. Neighborhood Renewal through the Establishment and through Protest
Efraim Ben-Zadok
4. Israeli Courts and Cultural Adaptation
Samuel Krislov
5. Modern Jerusalem: Politics, Planning, People
Jeff Halper
PART III: RELIGION
6. Sephardic Religious Thought in Israel: Aspects of the Theology of Rabbi Haim David Ha Levi
Zvi M. Zohar
7. Remembering the Sages of Aram Soba (Aleppo)
Walter P. Zenner
8. Localizing Israeli Judaism
Kevin Avruch
PART IV: LITERATURE AND CULTURE
9. Israeli Military Leadership During the Yom Kippur War: Reflections on the Art of Reflection
Pnina Lahav
10. Sifrut Ha Ma’abarah (Transit Camp Literature): Literature of Transition
Nancy E. Berg
11. Historical Memory: Israeli Cinema and Literature in the 1980s and 1990s
Nurith Gertz
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Walter P. Zenner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience, also published by SUNY Press
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