Eisenberg / Caplan Review Essays in Israel Studies

Books on Israel, Volume V
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9331-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 321 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Israeli Studies

Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain

Caplan, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.