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

• MitwirkendeR: Aschkenasy, Nehama,; Birnbaum, Paula J.,; Bolozky, Shmuel,; Feige, Michael,; Goldscheider, Calvin,; Greenspahn, Frederick E.,; Rouhana, Nadim N.,; Russell, Raymond,; Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej,; Saposnik, Arieh,; Sasson, Theodore,; Troen, Ilan,; Woods, Patricia J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Greenspahn, Frederick E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. History
• 1. Contesting Israel: Narratives in Scholarship and Beyond
• 2. Palestinian Citizenship in Israel: A Settler Colonial Perspective
• Part II. Society
• 3. Immigration: Social Strains and the Challenge of Diversity
• 4. Kibbutzim: The Challenge of Transformation
• 5. The Women’s Movement: Mobilization and the State
• Part III. Religion
• 6. Modern Orthodox Feminism: Art, Jewish Law, and the Quest for Equality
• 7. Jewish Ideological Killers: Religious Fundamentalism or Ethnic Marginality?
• Part IV. Identity
• 8. Israeli Fiction: National Identity and Private Lives
• 9. Israeli Hebrew: National Identity and Language
• 10. The Politics of Israel: Relations with the American Jewish Community
• Conclusion: Imagination and Reality in Scenarios of Israel’s Future
• About the Contributors
• Index