Handbook of Israel : Major Debates.

Intro -- Foreword -- Table of Content -- General Introduction -- Part A: Cleavages -- Topic I: Israel - West, East, or Global? -- Introduction -- 1. Israeli Culture Today: How Jewish? How Israeli? -- 2. To What Degree Is Israeli Culture Jewish, and to What Degree Israeli? -- 3. Hebrew Culture in Israel: Between Europe, the Middle East, and America -- 4. Israeli Culture(s) Today: Globalized Archipelago of Isolated Communities -- 5. Bauhaus Architecture in Israel: De-Constructing a Modernist Vernacular and the Myth of Tel Aviv's "White City" -- 6. Yam Tikhoniut: Mediterraneanism as a Model for Identity Formation in between -- Topic II: A Theocracy? -- Introduction -- 7. Religion and State, One and the Same -- 8. The Haredi-Secular Debate and the Shas Approach -- 9. The Secular State in Rabbinic Thought -- 10. Religion and State in Israel -- 11. The Non-Separation of Religion and State in Israel: Does It Support the Racism and Nationalism Wave? -- Topic III: One People? One Nation? -- Introduction -- 12. Russian-Speaking Israelis in the Ethno-Social Tapestry of Israel -- 13. Immigration and Conflict in a Deeply Divided Society: The Encounter between Russian Immigrants and the Indigenous Palestinian Minority in Israel -- 14. "About Miracles": The Flourishing of the "Torah World" of Yeshivot and Kollelim in Israel -- 15. The Divided People Revisited -- Topic IV: Ethnic (In)Equality -- Introduction -- 16. Inequality in Israel: In the End, Israel Produced Its Own 1% -- 17. What Has Become of the Ethnic Devil? Reflections on the Current State of Israeli Ethnicity -- 18. On the Cultural Distinction between East and West among Israeli Jews -- 19. We and the Others: Majority Attitudes toward Non-Jews in Israel -- Topic V: Social (In)Justice -- Introduction -- 20. Social Justice in Israel: Shifting Paradigm.

21. Israel's Socioeconomic Debate: A New Perspective -- 22. A Short Economic History of Israel -- 23. The Myth of Ethnic Inequality in Israel -- Topic VI: Feminism -- Introduction -- 24. Debates within Israeli Feminism -- 25. Navigating Gender Inequality in Israel: The Challenges of Feminism -- 26. The Schizophrenic Reality of Israeli Women: A Cinematic Perspective,2014 -- 27. Gender Policy in Family and Society among Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Outside and Inside Influences -- Topic VII: Discontinuities -- Introduction -- 28. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahapach": The 1977 Realignment from a Political Historical Perspective -- 29. The Likud as a Dominant Party and Israel's Post-1977 Infrastructure -- 30. The 1977 Changeover: The Emergence of a New Discourse among Palestinians in Israel -- 31. The 1977 Paradox: Immediate Crises and Long-Range Economic and Political Restructuring Outcomes of the Changeover -- 32. Dialectics of Change through Continuity: The 1977 Political Upheaval Revisited -- Part B: The Challenge of Post-Zionism -- Topic VIII: Militarism? -- Introduction -- 33. Israel: A Militaristic Society? -- 34. Are Israel's Media Critical of the IDF and the Security Culture? -- 35. Militarism and Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A New Approach -- 36. Patterns of Militarism in Israel -- Topic IX: A Democracy? -- Introduction -- 37. "Ethnocracy": The Politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine -- 38. Israeli Democracy: Civic and Ethnonational Components -- 39. What Kind of Democracy Is Israel? -- 40. From Liberal Democracy to Ethnocracy: Different Conceptions of Israel's Democracy -- 41. Israel's Vision: Jewish and Democratic -- 42. Is Israel a Democracy? -- Topic X: Debating Post-Zionism -- Introduction -- 43. Understanding the Divide: Arabs and Jews in Israel -- 44. Is Israel a Colonial State?.

45. Is There Still a Future for Settlements in Zionist Ideology?s -- 46. The Colonialism/Colonization Perspective on Zionism/Israel -- 47. What Do Those Who Claim Zionism Is Colonialism Overlook? -- 48. Post-Zionism and Its Moral and Political Ramifications -- 49. The Debate over the "New Historians" in Israel -- Topic XI: Criticism of Israel - A Kind of Antisemitism? -- Introduction -- 50. Post-Zionists and Anti-Zionists: The "Otherjews'" Hour -- 51. Parallel Lines: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the 21st Century -- 52. Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment -- 53. Europe, Israel, the Jewish Communities, and Growing Antisemitism -- 54. Criticism of Israel: A New Antisemitism? -- Part C: Israel Outward -- Topic XII: Israel-Diaspora -- Introduction -- 55. The Changing Status of Zionism and Israel in Latin American Jewry -- 56. Ethnicity and State Policy: Israel in the Discourse of the Jewish Press in the USA during the Past Generation -- 57. The French State, the Vertical Alliance, and the State of Israel -- 58. French Jewry and the Israelization of Judaism -- 59. Israel and the Diaspora: Convergent and Divergent Markers -- 60. Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Belts" of Transnationalism -- 61. Negation of the Diaspora from an Israeli Perspective: The Case of A. B. Yehoshua -- Topic XIII: The Conflict -- Introduction -- 62. "They help to weave the veil": Edgar Salin and the Israel Economic and Sociological Research Project -- 63. A Perspective on the Prospects of Settling the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict -- 64. Accords or Peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- 65. The Binational Dilemma -- 66. Why Is It So Difficult to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Israeli Jews? A Socio-Psychological Approach -- 67. Perspectives of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 1917-2015.

68. The Two-State Solution: A Way Out of the Impasse -- List of Contributors -- Glossary -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.

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