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

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

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