Review Essays in Israel Studies

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900–1948 and coauthor (with Neil Caplan) of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities. Neil Caplan is Coordinator of the Humanities Department and Jewish Studies Programme at Vanier College in Montreal. He is the author of Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917–1925; The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking; and Futile Diplomacy.

• Introduction 1. Ivory Tower and Embassy: Interview with Itamar Rabinovich Part I: History, Economics, and Politics2. The Yishuv's Early Capabilities: Organization, Leadership, and Policies Tobe Shanok3. The Transition to a Market Economy: The Road Half Taken Ofira Seliktar4. Israel as a Liberal Democracy: Civil Rights in the Jewish State Ilan Peleg5. "Normal" or "Special"? Israel's Relationships with America and Germany in Historical Perspective David RodmanPart II: Society and Culture6. Mythmaking and Commemoration in Israeli Culture David C. Jacobson7. Prophecy of Wrath: Israeli Society as Reflected in Satires for Children Yaakova Sacerdoti8. Women's Issues in the Literary Marketplace: Anthologies of Israeli Women Writers Hanita Brand9. Yemenite Jews on the Zionist Altar Nitza DruyanPart III: Israel in the Region10. Policy Transformation in the Middle East: Arms Control Regimes and National Security Reconciled Hemda Ben-Yehuda11. Palestinian Sovereignty and Israeli Security: Dilemmas of the Permanent-Status Negotiations Naomi Weinberger12. The Domestic-International Confluence: The Challenge of Israel's Water Problems Jeffrey SoslandPart IV: Views of Israel from the Arab World13. On Opposite Sides of the Hill: Syrian and Israeli Perspectives Eyal Zisser14. Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization? Deborah A. Starr15. Arab-Israeli Economic Relations and Relative Gains Concerns Maen F. Nsour16. The Debate over Normalization: Adonis and His Arab Critics Muhammad MuslihContributors

"Review Essays is a must for any library with a serious Israel or Middle East collection." — Jewish Book World"There are a variety of collections of articles about Israel currently available. Usually, these are not broad overviews, but rather collections of specialized articles on a particular topic, such as the crisis in democracy in Israel or religion or Israeli society. This volume is unique in two ways: it covers a variety of disciplines (political science, history, sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies), and it reviews the recent, mostly academic, literature in these areas." — James Armstrong, State University of New York at Plattsburgh