Israel
The First Decade of Independence
Published on 19. May 1995
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Paperback/Softback
779 pages
978-0-7914-2260-1 (ISBN)
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Provides new interpretations and research findings, from a wide spectrum of viewpoints, on Israel's formative first decade of independence.
Israel presents a panoramic display of fresh interpretations and new research findings related to Israel's first decade of independence. Those years of rapid change are widely regarded as a formative period in the development of the state and the society. As new archival materials have become available for scrutiny, a new generation of historians and social scientists has begun to re-examine old issues and to raise new questions. In this context of academic ferment, scholars in diverse disciplines, of different generations and of opposing ideological orientations, have collaborated in this book in examining the period anew. Thirty-two authoritative essays offer new understandings from the diverse perspectives of history, political science, sociology, literary criticism, geography, anthropology, and law. The intention is to provide a wide-ranging reconsideration of post-independence Israel that will serve as a benchmark for future study and research.
Israel presents a panoramic display of fresh interpretations and new research findings related to Israel's first decade of independence. Those years of rapid change are widely regarded as a formative period in the development of the state and the society. As new archival materials have become available for scrutiny, a new generation of historians and social scientists has begun to re-examine old issues and to raise new questions. In this context of academic ferment, scholars in diverse disciplines, of different generations and of opposing ideological orientations, have collaborated in this book in examining the period anew. Thirty-two authoritative essays offer new understandings from the diverse perspectives of history, political science, sociology, literary criticism, geography, anthropology, and law. The intention is to provide a wide-ranging reconsideration of post-independence Israel that will serve as a benchmark for future study and research.
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"This is an impressive work. The authors bring new evidence, documents that simply weren't available when the earlier histories were written, and these new documents, or even simply new perspectives, contribute to the ongoing debates involved in discussion of Israeli political history. This book is a mammoth undertaking, and one of its real strong points is the sheer range of subjects that are included within one set of covers." - Gregory S. Mahler, University of MississippiMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1048 gr
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978-0-7914-2260-1 (9780791422601)
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Persons
S. Ilan Troen holds the Sam and Anna Lopin Chair in Modern History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and is Senior Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Noah Lucas is Fellow in Israeli Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Hebrew Centre Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, and Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Content
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
An Introduction to Research on Israel's First Decade
S. ILAN TROEN AND NOAH LUCAS
PART I POLITICS IN THE NEW STATE
1 Israel's First Decade: Building a Civic State
ALAN DOWTY
2 The Structural Foundation for Religio-Political Accommodation in Israel: Fallacy and Reality
MENACHEM FRIEDMAN
3 The Road Not Taken: Constitutional Non-Decision Making in 1948-1950 and Its Impact on Civil Liberties in the Israeli Political Culture
PHILIPPA STRUM
4 New Challenges to New Authority: Israeli Grassroots Activism in the 1950s
TAMAR HERMANN
PART II POLITICAL THOUGHT: PROPENSITIES AND ALTERNATIVES
5 The "Utopian Leap" in David Ben-Gurion's Social Thought, 1920-1958
YOSEF GORNY
6 Sharett's "Line", Struggles, and Legacy
GABRIEL SHEFFER
7 Political Religion in a New State: Ben-Gurion's Mamlachtiyut
ELIEZER DON-YEHIYA
PART III POLITICS OF THE HOLOCAUST
8 Mapai and the "Kastner Trial"
YECHIAM WEITZ
9 The Commander of the "Yizkor" Order; Herut, Holocaust, and Survivors
HANNAH TOROK YABLONKA
PART IV SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS
10 The Economic Regime during Israel's First Decade
NACHUM T. GROSS
11 The Crisis in the Kibbutz Movement, 1949-1961
HENRY NEAR
12 The Kibbutz in the 1950s; A Transformation of Identity
ELIEZER BEN-RAFAEL
13 The Contribution of the Labor Economy to Immigrant Absorption and Population Dispersal during Israel's First Decade
YITZHAK GREENBERG
14 Israeli Nationalism and Socialism before and after 1948
NOAH LUCAS
PART V LITERATURE AND POPULAR IMAGES
15 The Fiction of the "Generation in the Land"
EZRA SPICEHANDLER
16 Israeli Literature as an Emerging National Literature
GLENDA ABRAMSON
17 War and Religiosity: The Sinai Campaign in Public Thought
YONA HADARI-RAMAGE
18 Early Social Survey Research in and on Israel
RUSSELL A. STONE AND S. ILAN TROEN
PART VI PHYSICAL PLANNING AND SETTLEMENT POLICY
19 The Transfer to Jewish Control of Abandoned Arab Lands during the War of Independence
ARNON GOLAN
20 New Departures in Zionist Planning: The Development Town
S. ILAN TROEN
21 Planning, Housing, and Land Policy 1948-1952: The Formation of Concepts and Governmental Frameworks
RUTH KARK
22 Creating Homogeneous Space: The Evolution of Israel's Regional Councils
DAVID NEWMAN
PART VII IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATION
23 Styles of Ethnic Adaptation: Interpreting Iraqi and Moroccan Settlement in Israel
ALEX WEINGROD
24 Mapam and the European and Oriental Immigrations
ELI TZUR
25 The Silent Partner: Holocaust Survivors in the IDF
HANNA TOROK YABLONKA
PART VIII THE ARMY
26 The Civilian Components of Israel's Security Doctrine: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in the First Decade
MOSHE LISSAK
27 Utopia in Uniform
ZE'EV DRORI
PART IX THE ARAB MINORITY
28 An Uneasy Coexistence: Arabs and Jews in the First Decade of Statehood
ILAN PAPPE
29 Crime and Law Enforcement in the Israeli Arab Population under the Military Government, 1948-1966
ALINA KORN
PART X ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA
30 The Zionist Movement and the State of Israel, 1948-1952: A Formation of Normal Interrelations
YOSEF GORNY
31 Philanthropy and Politics: Modes of Interaction between Israel and the Diaspora
ERNEST STOCK
32 Defining Relationships: The Joint Distribution Committee and Israel, 1948-1950
DALIA OFER
33 American Jewry and Israel: The First Decade and Its Implications for Today
MELVIN I. UROFSKY
Information on Contributors
Index
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
An Introduction to Research on Israel's First Decade
S. ILAN TROEN AND NOAH LUCAS
PART I POLITICS IN THE NEW STATE
1 Israel's First Decade: Building a Civic State
ALAN DOWTY
2 The Structural Foundation for Religio-Political Accommodation in Israel: Fallacy and Reality
MENACHEM FRIEDMAN
3 The Road Not Taken: Constitutional Non-Decision Making in 1948-1950 and Its Impact on Civil Liberties in the Israeli Political Culture
PHILIPPA STRUM
4 New Challenges to New Authority: Israeli Grassroots Activism in the 1950s
TAMAR HERMANN
PART II POLITICAL THOUGHT: PROPENSITIES AND ALTERNATIVES
5 The "Utopian Leap" in David Ben-Gurion's Social Thought, 1920-1958
YOSEF GORNY
6 Sharett's "Line", Struggles, and Legacy
GABRIEL SHEFFER
7 Political Religion in a New State: Ben-Gurion's Mamlachtiyut
ELIEZER DON-YEHIYA
PART III POLITICS OF THE HOLOCAUST
8 Mapai and the "Kastner Trial"
YECHIAM WEITZ
9 The Commander of the "Yizkor" Order; Herut, Holocaust, and Survivors
HANNAH TOROK YABLONKA
PART IV SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS
10 The Economic Regime during Israel's First Decade
NACHUM T. GROSS
11 The Crisis in the Kibbutz Movement, 1949-1961
HENRY NEAR
12 The Kibbutz in the 1950s; A Transformation of Identity
ELIEZER BEN-RAFAEL
13 The Contribution of the Labor Economy to Immigrant Absorption and Population Dispersal during Israel's First Decade
YITZHAK GREENBERG
14 Israeli Nationalism and Socialism before and after 1948
NOAH LUCAS
PART V LITERATURE AND POPULAR IMAGES
15 The Fiction of the "Generation in the Land"
EZRA SPICEHANDLER
16 Israeli Literature as an Emerging National Literature
GLENDA ABRAMSON
17 War and Religiosity: The Sinai Campaign in Public Thought
YONA HADARI-RAMAGE
18 Early Social Survey Research in and on Israel
RUSSELL A. STONE AND S. ILAN TROEN
PART VI PHYSICAL PLANNING AND SETTLEMENT POLICY
19 The Transfer to Jewish Control of Abandoned Arab Lands during the War of Independence
ARNON GOLAN
20 New Departures in Zionist Planning: The Development Town
S. ILAN TROEN
21 Planning, Housing, and Land Policy 1948-1952: The Formation of Concepts and Governmental Frameworks
RUTH KARK
22 Creating Homogeneous Space: The Evolution of Israel's Regional Councils
DAVID NEWMAN
PART VII IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATION
23 Styles of Ethnic Adaptation: Interpreting Iraqi and Moroccan Settlement in Israel
ALEX WEINGROD
24 Mapam and the European and Oriental Immigrations
ELI TZUR
25 The Silent Partner: Holocaust Survivors in the IDF
HANNA TOROK YABLONKA
PART VIII THE ARMY
26 The Civilian Components of Israel's Security Doctrine: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in the First Decade
MOSHE LISSAK
27 Utopia in Uniform
ZE'EV DRORI
PART IX THE ARAB MINORITY
28 An Uneasy Coexistence: Arabs and Jews in the First Decade of Statehood
ILAN PAPPE
29 Crime and Law Enforcement in the Israeli Arab Population under the Military Government, 1948-1966
ALINA KORN
PART X ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA
30 The Zionist Movement and the State of Israel, 1948-1952: A Formation of Normal Interrelations
YOSEF GORNY
31 Philanthropy and Politics: Modes of Interaction between Israel and the Diaspora
ERNEST STOCK
32 Defining Relationships: The Joint Distribution Committee and Israel, 1948-1950
DALIA OFER
33 American Jewry and Israel: The First Decade and Its Implications for Today
MELVIN I. UROFSKY
Information on Contributors
Index