Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Visiting Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author and editor of several books including Review Essays in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume V (with Neil Caplan), published by SUNY Press. Neil Caplan is Coordinator of the Humanities Department and Jewish Studies Programme at Vanier College. He is the author and editor of several books including The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking. Naomi B. Sokoloff is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. She is the author and editor of several books including Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction.

"The sheer number of contributors and the range of essays and topics discussed make this volume a rich source of information on Israeli society, politics, economics, and culture." — Journal of Palestine Studies"Without a doubt, this is the best volume in the series so far. The writing is superb, the analysis and criticism are cogent, the coverage is broad, and the points of view are varied. I really enjoyed this collection." — James D. Armstrong, coeditor of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture

• Introduction History and Memory 1. Reassessing Israel's Road to Sinai/Suez, 1956: A "Trialogue"Mordechai Bar-On, Benny Morris and Motti Golani 2. The Holocaust and Its Fifty-Year-Old Commemoration: Have We Reached the Limit?Rachel Feldhay Brenner Israeli Society: The Jewish Community 3. Controlling Territory: Spatial Dimensions of Social and Political Change in IsraelDavid Newman 4. "A Nation that Dwelleth Alone": Judaism as an Integrating and Divisive Factor in Israeli SocietyEphraim Tabory Israeli Society: The Arab Community 5. Palestinians in Israel: Social and Educational Conditions in the 1990sIlham Nasser 6. Research on Welfare and Well-being in Israel: A Palestinian PerspectiveKhawla Abu Baker Whither Post-Zionism? 7. Does Post-Zionism Have a Future?Deborah L. Wheeler 8. The Open Society and Its Enemies: Changing Public Discourse in IsraelLeah Rosen and Ruth Amir 9. Literature as a Response to Paradox: On Reading A.B. Yehoshua's A Journey to the End of the MillenniumStephen Schecter Peace Process 10. Anthologizing the Peace ProcessMira Sucharov 11. Power-Relations, Recognition, and Dialogue: The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian PeaceAmal A. Jamal 12. Economics as a Security Tool in an Era of "Peace" in the Middle EastMaen F. Nsour Israel Studies Around the World 13. Changing Italian Perspectives on IsraelAntonio Donno 14. Israel Turns Fifty: New Books Published in GermanyAngelika Timm 15. Israel in Chinese ScholarshipXu Xin Notes on the Contributors and Editors