Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship

Russell A. Stone is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at The American University. He is the author of Social Change in Israel: Attitudes and Events and editor of the SUNY Press series in Israeli Studies. Walter P. Zenner is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His works include Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience; and Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, both published by SUNY Press; and Jewish Societies in the Middle East. He is also the editor of the SUNY Press series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies.

• IntroductionWalter P. Zenner and Russell A. Stone I. Literature and Language Rewriting the Holocaust: An Israeli Case Study in the Sociology of the Novel Aviad E. Raz Espionage and Cultural Mediation Walter P. Zenner An Authentic Human Voice: The Poetry of Amnon Shamosh Abraham Marthan On The Schizoid Nature of Modem Hebrew Shmuel Bolozky II. Culture and Society: Gender, Ethnicity, Community Does Gender Matter? Madeleine Tress Studies on Ethnicity Walter F. Weiker The Search for Israeliness: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary Mainstream James Armstrong III. Social Analysis From Apparatus to Populus: The Political Sociology of Yonathan Shapiro Uri Ram Governing in a Turbulent National Policy Environment Giora Goldberg and Efraim Ben-Zadok IV. History and Politics The Significance of Israeli Historical Revisionism Jerome Slater The Utopian Crisis of the Israeli State Yagil Levy and Yoav Peled The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Victory of Otherness Ilan Peleg The Intercommunal Dimension in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Intifada Efraim Inbar List of Contributors

"The interdisciplinary nature of this book gives both breadth and depth to Israeli social issues and scholarship. The topics addressed are quite significant and central to local processes as well as global issues." — Nancy J. Black, Metropolitan State University