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 Content
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
About the author
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Visiting Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author and editor of several books including
Review Essays in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume V (with Neil Caplan), published by SUNY Press.
Neil Caplan is Coordinator of the Humanities Department and Jewish Studies Programme at Vanier College. He is the author and editor of several books including
The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking.
Naomi B. Sokoloff is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. She is the author and editor of several books including
Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction.
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