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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974878003321

Titolo

Critical essays on Israeli society, politics, and culture / / editors, Ian S. Lustick and Barry Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1991

ISBN

9781438411460

1438411464

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Books on Israel ; ; v. 2

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Altri autori (Persone)

LustickIan <1949->

RubinBarry M

Disciplina

956.94 s

016.95694

Soggetti

Books

Israel Book reviews

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A publication from the Association for Israel Studies."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Part One: History and Politics""; ""Revisionism and the Reconstruction of Israeli History""; ""The Ambiguities of a 'Binational' Israel""; ""Ideological Politics or the Politics of Demography: The Aftermath of the Six-Day-War""; ""Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Political Action""; ""Testing for Democracy in Israel""; ""Part Two: Society, Culture, and Religion""; ""Between the Promised Land and the Land of Promise: Israeli Emigration and Israeli Identity""

""National Neurosis in Israeli Literature: A.B. Yehoshua""""Exploring Answers to Zionism's Decay: Two Israeli Authors Rediscover Happiness""; ""Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel""; ""Part Three: Foreign Relations""; ""Human Rights in Israel's Territories: Politics and Law in Interaction""; ""American Public Opinion toward Israel and the Palestinians""; ""Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank""; ""Back Matter""; ""About the Contributors""; ""About the Editors""; ""Back Cover ""

Sommario/riassunto

Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics, and Culture is the second



volume in a series devoted to imaginative and critical consideration of recent books on Israel. It is a forum allowing some of the most insightful students of Israeli affairs, both in Israel and in the United States, to examine trends in Israeli literature and in scholarship pertaining to all aspects of Israeli life. Each contributor approaches Israel from a different angle, offering anthropological, religious, political, literary, and historical perspectives.Topics attracting particular attention in this volume include the psychological reactions of Israelis who emigrate from their country and the portrayal of the emigrant in Israeli literature; human rights; the role and content of the Jewish fundamentalist movement in Israel; changing relations to the Palestinian leadership in the occupied terrorists; the emerging issue of Israel as a binational society; psychoanalytic and political motifs in contemporary Israeli fiction; and the controversial findings of Israel's newest wave of "revisionist" historians.