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Contemporary Israel: New Insights and Scholarship

Frederick E. Greenspahn

Abstract

Over the past generation, modern Israel has evolved in ways that often differ from both what its founders envisioned and how it is popularly perceived. In this volume, experts draw on recent scholarship from both the humanities and the social sciences to explore subjects that illustrate these insights. Topics discussed include the changing composition of Israel’s population, feminist trends in its Orthodox community, and transformations in its culture and social identity, as well as the country’s Palestinian citizens and the development of Israel’s relationship to the American Jewish community ... More

Keywords: image, reality, Israel, Palestinians, kibbutzim, fundamentalism, women, literature, art, language

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9781479896806
Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479896806.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Frederick E. Greenspahn, editor
Florida Atlantic University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Introduction

Frederick E. Greenspahn

Part I History

1 Contesting Israel

Arieh Saposnik

2 Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

Nadim N. Rouhana and Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

Part II Society

3 Immigration

Calvin Goldscheider

4 Kibbutzim

Raymond Russell

5 The Women’s Movement

Patricia J. Woods

Part III Religion

6 Modern Orthodox Feminism

Paula J. Birnbaum

7 Jewish Ideological Killers

Michael Feige

Part IV Identity

8 Israeli Fiction

Nehama Aschkenasy

9 Israeli Hebrew

Shmuel Bolozky

10 The Politics of Israel

Theodore Sasson

Conclusion

Ilan Troen

End Matter

About the Contributors

Index