Review Essays in Israel Studies
Review Essays in Israel Studies

Author: Laura Zittrain Eisenberg

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0791493318

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Representing a wide array of disciplines: economics, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and sociology, this book offers original examinations of the state of scholarship about Israel, as well as insightful assessments of contemporary Israeli society, politics, economy, and culture. The contributors review and analyze more than sixty recent publications, half of them in Hebrew or Arabic, showcasing important literature not readily accessible to European and North American readers. Continuing the tradition established by the preceding volumes, Review Essays in Israel Studies offers a rich and varied treatment of new scholarship and enhances our understanding of Israel studies today.

Review Essays in Israel Studies
Review Essays in Israel Studies

Author: Laura Zittrain Eisenberg

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-01-06

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780791444214

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Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Review Essays in Israel Studies
Review Essays in Israel Studies

Author: Laura Zittrain Eisenberg

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-01-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9780791444214

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Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government
Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government

Author: Kevin Avruch

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0791495450

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This book is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. It brings together original review essays commenting on issues in Israeli society, culture, politics, religion, literature, and film. The authors' evaluations of recently published books go beyond critical commentary on the works themselves to include the state of scholarship and social conditions. Among the issues addressed are the conflict over water resources, the human dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, local governance, and the court system. The book provides reviews and commentary, not only on scholarly works but also on memoirs of military leaders at the time of the Yom Kippur war, Sephardi novels on the shock of immigration and on Israeli orthodox Judaism, and politically oriented cinema and literature of the 1980s and 1990s.

Essential Israel
Essential Israel

Author: S. Ilan Troen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2017-02-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780253027115

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Most Americans are ill-prepared to engage thoughtfully in the increasingly serious debate 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. 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.

The New Jewish Canon
The New Jewish Canon

Author: Yehuda Kurtzer

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1644694700

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“Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal.” —Jewish Journal The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.

Israel's Past in Present Research
Israel's Past in Present Research

Author: V. Philips Long

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 1575060280

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Further, many of the most important names in late twentieth century biblical historiography appear as authors of various contributions: Hayes, Brettler, Van Seters, Miller, and de Vaux. In a work of more than 600 pages, Long finds room for thirty-two different writers. In addition to his concluding chapter, he also introduces each section and reprints an important essay of his own on history and literary technique.Every reader, including those already conversant with the subject, will gain much from reading this book. However, some will also recognize gaps or areas that they wished had been highlighted. Despite the word, 'Recent,' one wonders why no samples of the writings of Wellhausen, and especially of Alt, Noth, and Albright are included. Although most of the essays date from the 1990's, Hans Walter Wolff's contribution comes from a 1963 volume.

Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship
Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship

Author: Russell Stone

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1438421400

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Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies and published by SUNY Press that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. This book brings together review essays commenting on issues in Israeli culture, literature, politics, scholarship, and society. The authors identify a series of recently published books and provide critical commentary. In their examination, they go beyond the works themselves to comment on the state of scholarship and social conditions. Topics covered include Israeli writers' reactions to the Holocaust, critical analyses of the popular Israeli poet and novelist Amnon Shamosh, the linguistic relations between Yiddish and Modern Hebrew, ethnic relations, the emerging "mainstream" of Israeli culture, politics, Israeli historical revisionism, and social, psychological, and political aspects of the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict.