Laura Zittrain Eisenberg & Neil Caplan 
Review Essays in Israel Studies [PDF ebook] 
Books on Israel, Volume V

Representing a wide array of disciplines: economics, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and sociology, this book offers original examinations of the state of scholarship about Israel, as well as insightful assessments of contemporary Israeli society, politics, economy, and culture. The contributors review and analyze more than sixty recent publications, half of them in Hebrew or Arabic, showcasing important literature not readily accessible to European and North American readers. Continuing the tradition established by the preceding volumes, Review Essays in Israel Studies offers a rich and varied treatment of new scholarship and enhances our understanding of Israel studies today.

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Introduction




1. Ivory Tower and Embassy: Interview with Itamar Rabinovich




Part I:

History, Economics, and Politics




2. The Yishuv’s Early Capabilities: Organization, Leadership, and Policies




Tobe Shanok




3. The Transition to a Market Economy: The Road Half Taken




Ofira Seliktar




4. Israel as a Liberal Democracy: Civil Rights in the Jewish State




Ilan Peleg




5. ‘Normal’ or ‘Special’? Israel’s Relationships with America and Germany in Historical Perspective




David Rodman




Part II:

Society and Culture




6. Mythmaking and Commemoration in Israeli Culture




David C. Jacobson




7. Prophecy of Wrath: Israeli Society as Reflected in Satires for Children




Yaakova Sacerdoti




8. Women’s Issues in the Literary Marketplace: Anthologies of Israeli Women Writers




Hanita Brand




9. Yemenite Jews on the Zionist Altar




Nitza Druyan




Part III:

Israel in the Region




10. Policy Transformation in the Middle East: Arms Control Regimes and National Security Reconciled




Hemda Ben-Yehuda




11. Palestinian Sovereignty and Israeli Security: Dilemmas of the Permanent-Status Negotiations




Naomi Weinberger




12. The Domestic-International Confluence: The Challenge of Israel’s Water Problems




Jeffrey Sosland




Part IV:

Views of Israel from the Arab World




13. On Opposite Sides of the Hill: Syrian and Israeli Perspectives




Eyal Zisser




14. Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization?




Deborah A. Starr




15. Arab-Israeli Economic Relations and Relative Gains Concerns




Maen F. Nsour




16. The Debate over Normalization: Adonis and His Arab Critics




Muhammad Muslih




Contributors

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Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of
My Enemy’s Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900–1948 and coauthor (with Neil Caplan) of
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities. Neil Caplan is Coordinator of the Humanities Department and Jewish Studies Programme at Vanier College in Montreal. He is the author of
Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917–1925; The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking; and Futile Diplomacy.