Contemporary Israel : : New Insights and Scholarship / / ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn, Frederick E. Greenspahn.

For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. History
  • 1. Contesting Israel
  • 2. Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
  • Part II. Society
  • 3. Immigration
  • 4. Kibbutzim
  • 5. The Women’s Movement
  • Part III. Religion
  • 6. Modern Orthodox Feminism
  • 7. Jewish Ideological Killers
  • Part IV. Identity
  • 8. Israeli Fiction
  • 9. Israeli Hebrew
  • 10. The Politics of Israel
  • Conclusion. Imagination and Reality in Scenarios of Israel’s Future
  • About the Contributors
  • Index