Handbook of Israel: Major Debates / / Julius H. Schoeps, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Olaf Glöckner, Yitzhak Sternberg, Anne Weberling.
The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 2 vols. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXVI, 1304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Handbook of Israel: Major Debates
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Table of Content
- General Introduction
- Part A: Cleavages
- Topic I: Israel – West, East, or Global?
- Introduction
- 1. Israeli Culture Today: How Jewish? How Israeli?
- 2. To What Degree Is Israeli Culture Jewish, and to What Degree Israeli?
- 3. Hebrew Culture in Israel: Between Europe, the Middle East, and America
- 4. Israeli Culture(s) Today: Globalized Archipelago of Isolated Communities
- 5. Bauhaus Architecture in Israel: De-Constructing a Modernist Vernacular and the Myth of Tel Aviv’s “White City”
- 6. Yam Tikhoniut: Mediterraneanism as a Model for Identity Formation in between
- Topic II: A Theocracy?
- Introduction
- 7. Religion and State, One and the Same
- 8. The Haredi-Secular Debate and the Shas Approach
- 9. The Secular State in Rabbinic Thought
- 10. Religion and State in Israel
- 11. The Non-Separation of Religion and State in Israel: Does It Support the Racism and Nationalism Wave?
- Topic III: One People? One Nation?
- Introduction
- 12. Russian-Speaking Israelis in the Ethno-Social Tapestry of Israel
- 13. Immigration and Conflict in a Deeply Divided Society: The Encounter between Russian Immigrants and the Indigenous Palestinian Minority in Israel
- 14. “About Miracles”: The Flourishing of the “Torah World” of Yeshivot and Kollelim in Israel
- 15. The Divided People Revisited
- Topic IV: Ethnic (In)Equality
- Introduction
- 16. Inequality in Israel: In the End, Israel Produced Its Own 1%
- 17. What Has Become of the Ethnic Devil? Reflections on the Current State of Israeli Ethnicity
- 18. On the Cultural Distinction between East and West among Israeli Jews
- 19. We and the Others: Majority Attitudes toward Non-Jews in Israel
- Topic V: Social (In)Justice
- Introduction
- 20. Social Justice in Israel: Shifting Paradigm
- 21. Israel’s Socioeconomic Debate: A New Perspective
- 22. A Short Economic History of Israel
- 23. The Myth of Ethnic Inequality in Israel
- Topic VI: Feminism
- Introduction
- 24. Debates within Israeli Feminism
- 25. Navigating Gender Inequality in Israel: The Challenges of Feminism
- 26. The Schizophrenic Reality of Israeli Women: A Cinematic Perspective, 2014
- 27. Gender Policy in Family and Society among Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Outside and Inside Influences
- Topic VII: Discontinuities
- Introduction
- 28. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahapach”: The 1977 Realignment from a Political Historical Perspective
- 29. The Likud as a Dominant Party and Israel’s Post-1977 Infrastructure
- 30. The 1977 Changeover: The Emergence of a New Discourse among Palestinians in Israel
- 31. The 1977 Paradox: Immediate Crises and Long- Range Economic and Political Restructuring Outcomes of the Changeover
- 32. Dialectics of Change through Continuity: The 1977 Political Upheaval Revisited
- Part B: The Challenge of Post-Zionism
- Topic VIII: Militarism?
- Introduction
- 33. Israel: A Militaristic Society?
- 34. Are Israel’s Media Critical of the IDF and the Security Culture?
- 35. Militarism and Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A New Approach
- 36. Patterns of Militarism in Israel
- Topic IX: A Democracy?
- Introduction
- 37. “Ethnocracy”: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/ Palestine
- 38. Israeli Democracy: Civic and Ethnonational Components
- 39. What Kind of Democracy Is Israel?
- 40. From Liberal Democracy to Ethnocracy: Different Conceptions of Israel’s Democracy
- 41. Israel’s Vision: Jewish and Democratic
- 42. Is Israel a Democracy?
- Topic X: Debating Post-Zionism
- Introduction
- 43. Understanding the Divide: Arabs and Jews in Israel
- 44. Is Israel a Colonial State?
- 45. Is There Still a Future for Settlements in Zionist Ideology?
- 46. The Colonialism/Colonization Perspective on Zionism/Israel
- 47. What Do Those Who Claim Zionism Is Colonialism Overlook?
- 48. Post-Zionism and Its Moral and Political Ramifications
- 49. The Debate over the “New Historians” in Israel
- Topic XI: Criticism of Israel – A Kind of Antisemitism?
- Introduction
- 50. Post-Zionists and Anti-Zionists: The “Otherjews’” Hour
- 51. Parallel Lines: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the 21st Century
- 52. Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment
- 53. Europe, Israel, the Jewish Communities, and Growing Antisemitism
- 54. Criticism of Israel: A New Antisemitism?
- Part C: Israel Outward
- Topic XII: Israel-Diaspora
- Introduction
- 55. The Changing Status of Zionism and Israel in Latin American Jewry
- 56. Ethnicity and State Policy: Israel in the Discourse of the Jewish Press in the USA during the Past Generation
- 57. The French State, the Vertical Alliance, and the State of Israel
- 58. French Jewry and the Israelization of Judaism
- 59. Israel and the Diaspora: Convergent and Divergent Markers
- 60. Israel-Diaspora Relations: “Transmission Belts” of Transnationalism
- 61. Negation of the Diaspora from an Israeli Perspective: The Case of A. B. Yehoshua
- Topic XIII: The Conflict
- Introduction
- 62. “They help to weave the veil”: Edgar Salin and the Israel Economic and Sociological Research Project
- 63. A Perspective on the Prospects of Settling the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict
- 64. Accords or Peace between Israel and the Palestinians
- 65. The Binational Dilemma
- 66. Why Is It So Difficult to Resolve the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict by Israeli Jews? A Socio- Psychological Approach
- 67. Perspectives of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 1917–2015
- 68. The Two-State Solution: A Way Out of the Impasse
- List of Contributors
- Glossary
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects