Essential Israel
Essays for the 21st Century
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 2020
438 pages
978-0-253-02719-1 (ISBN)
Description
"An excellent tool in Middle Eastern politics classes [and] an intellectual resource for experts who want to learn more about the complexities of Israel."-
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Americans debate constantly about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with an intimate sense of the dynamic society and culture that is Israel today, providing a broader and deeper understanding to inform the conversation.
The expert contributors to this volume address the Arab-Israeli conflict, the state of diplomatic efforts to bring about peace, Zionism and the impact of the Holocaust, the status of the Jewish state and Israeli democracy, foreign relations, immigration and Israeli identity, as well as literature, film, and the other arts. This unique and innovative volume provides solid grounding to understandings of Israel's history, politics, culture, and possibilities for the future.
Americans debate constantly about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with an intimate sense of the dynamic society and culture that is Israel today, providing a broader and deeper understanding to inform the conversation.
The expert contributors to this volume address the Arab-Israeli conflict, the state of diplomatic efforts to bring about peace, Zionism and the impact of the Holocaust, the status of the Jewish state and Israeli democracy, foreign relations, immigration and Israeli identity, as well as literature, film, and the other arts. This unique and innovative volume provides solid grounding to understandings of Israel's history, politics, culture, and possibilities for the future.
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Persons
Rachel Fish is Associate Director of the Schusterman Center.S. Ilan Troen is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies and founding Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He is founding editor of Israel Studies. His publications include Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement and (with Jacob Lassner) Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined.
Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1 An Invitation to Israel Literacy
- 2 Israel: Geography, Demography, and Economy
- 3 From Zionism to Zion
- 4 Zionist Settlement in the Land of Israel/Palestine
- 5 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- 6 History of the Peace Process
- 7 Israel in World Opinion
- 8 Israel: A Jewish Democracy
- 9 Citizenship and Democracy in Israel
- 10 Israel, American Jews, and Jewish Peoplehood
- 11 "Jewishness" in Israel: Israel as a Jewish State
- 12 Contemporary Christianity and Israel
- 13 Perceptions and Understandings of Israel within Islam
- 14 "Hebrewism" and Israeli Culture
- 15 Israeli and Hebrew Literature: from the Yishuv to the 21st Century
- GLOSSARY
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- l
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Y
- Z
- TIMELINE: A Century of Wars and Conflict and Peace Negotiations and Agreements 1917-2016
