Israel category: 987 books
Shattered Hopes
Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is a hard slog to work through all of these issues.” Contrast this gloomy assessment with Obama’s...
Ethnographic Encounters in Israel
Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and methodological challenges. The first-person accounts by anthropologists engage contradictions of religion,...
When Peace Is Not Enough
How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland. Born in adversity but purportedly nurtured by liberal ideals, Israel has never known peace, experiencing instead a state of constant...
Erased from Space and Consciousness
Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war, their lands and property confiscated. Most of the villages were razed by the new State of Israel, but in dozens of others, communities of Jews were settled—many refugees in their...
Sustaining Conflict
Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Sustaining Conflict develops a groundbreaking theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. It examines how the status quo is maintained in Israel-Palestine, even by the activities of Jewish Israelis who are working...
Israeli Identity
Between Orient and Occident
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membership...
Zionism
The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
From serving as the Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker to penning articles for the New York Times, Milton Viorst has dedicated his career to studying the Middle East. Now, in this new book, Viorst examines the evolution of Zionism, from its roots by serving as a cultural refuge for Europe's...
by Alexander Bligh, Udi Lebel, Nissim Leon
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The 1973 Yom Kippur War did not only have external implications on Israel, but also some dramatic internal implications, particularly with regards to the civil-military relations as well as the fields of psychology and political sociology. To this day, the consequences of this war are still prevalent...
by Yitzhak Laor
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
One of Israel’s most controversial writers demystifies the “peace camp” liberals
Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel’s most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects the complex...
State Practices and Zionist Images
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It examines the role of Israeli airpower against terrorists in the intifada from 2000 to 2005. When asked to name one defining episode in the chronicles of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), historians...
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine
Religion and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity means that territorial disputes can often focus on the contestation of holy places and sacred territory. Looking at the case of Israel and Palestine,...
by Erez Bitton
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically...
Prelude to Israel
An Analysis of Zionist Diplomacy, 1897-1947
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1959, this book by eminent professor of Middle Eastern studies, Alan R. Taylor, traces the Zionist endeavors to establish a Jewish state in Palestine from the founding of the Zionist movement in 1897 to the creation of Israel, with special emphasis on the diplomatic methodology...