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Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922
Av Sara Reguer
Häftad, 2020
358 kr
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Can one individual influence the course of history? In the example of Churchill and the Middle East during post-World War I, the answer is an irrefutable yes. Winston S. Churchill, first as Secretary for War and Air, and then as Colonial Secretary, both formulated and enacted the British imperial …
Authority and Participation in a New Democracy
Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953
Av Avi Bareli
E-bok, 2014
2853 kr
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Authority and Participation in a New Democracy focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel’s first ruling party, during Israel’s first years of independence, then analyzes the effects of these changes in relation to Israeli political culture. Bareli’s main claim is that it was only during …
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Changing Women, Changing Society
Av Dahlia Moore
Häftad, 2013
285 kr
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In Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, Dahlia Moore explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing status of women. While delving into some of Israel’s unique and influential forces, such as the army, religious sects, and recent immigration, Moore …
Carnival in Tel Aviv
Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism
Av Hizky Shoham
Inbunden, 2014
1132 kr
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The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores …
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance
Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931–2013
Häftad, 2014
341 kr
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In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994–1996). The …
Struggle for Jerusalem and the Holy Land
A New Inquiry into the Qur’an and Classic Islamic Sources on the People of Israel, their Torah, and their links to the Holy Land
Av Nissim Dana
E-bok, 2014
2771 kr
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In recent generations, the Muslim and Arab world has been suffused with publications on the subject of the People of Israel, its Torah, and this people’s affinity to the Land of Israel. Most of these publications are tendentious, written with a hostile attitude toward Jews and Judaism; indeed, some …
Israeli Nation-State
Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges
Av Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yedidia Stern
Inbunden, 2014
1286 kr
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This volume of original essays, by some of Israel’s most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s ever-evolving theater of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its deep divisions and—more surprisingly, …
Israeli Nation-State: Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges
Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges
Av Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yedidia Z. Stern
E-bok, 2014
2771 kr
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This volume of original essays, by some of Israel’s most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s ever-evolving theater of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its deep divisions and—more surprisingly, …
Israeli Nation-State
Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges
Av Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yedidia Stern
Häftad, 2015
338 kr
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This volume of original essays, by some of Israel’s most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s ever-evolving theater of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its deep divisions and—more surprisingly, …
Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse
Inbunden, 2015
1132 kr
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Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, …
Liberal-Republican Quandary in Israel, Europe, and the United States
Early Modern Thought Meets Current Affairs
Av Thomas Maissen, Fania Oz-Salzberger
Häftad, 2015
2771 kr
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Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars, including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume offers a threefold intellectual juncture. Its contributors analyse the liberal- republican tension-field in a novel way, juxtaposing early modern …
Acco Festival
Between Celebration and Confrontation
Inbunden, 2016
1048 kr
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This research follows the history ofthe Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as confrontation. The Acco Festival is presented as a borderland that brings together established mainstream directors and actors, alternative artists from …
Charm of Wise Hesitancy
Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture
Inbunden, 2017
1286 kr
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In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This growing fascination with Talmudic stories has been inspired by contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware of the special qualities of these …
Charm of Wise Hesitancy
Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture
Inbunden, 2017
2771 kr
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In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This growing fascination with Talmudic stories has been inspired by contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware of the special qualities of these …
Kibbutz: Utopia and Politics
The Life and Times of Meir Yaari, 1897–1987
Inbunden, 2017
1314 kr
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Meir Yaari (1897-1987) was the leader of Hashomer Hatza’ir, a movement which took an active part in shaping the history of the Jewish people in the crucial decades of the twentieth century. Its Kibbutzim had a leading role in matters of aliyah, settlement, and defense in mandatory Palestine and …
Charm of Wise Hesitancy
Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture
Häftad, 2018
410 kr
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In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories. This growing fascination with Talmudic stories has been inspired by contemporary Israeli writers who have sought to make readers aware of the special qualities of these …
Kibbutz: Utopia and Politics
The Life and Times of Meir Yaari, 1897–1987
Häftad, 2018
552 kr
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Meir Yaari (1897-1987) was the leader of Hashomer Hatza’ir, a movement which took an active part in shaping the history of the Jewish people in the crucial decades of the twentieth century. Its Kibbutzim had a leading role in matters of aliyah, settlement, and defense in mandatory Palestine and …
Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922
Av Sara Reguer
Inbunden, 2020
1262 kr
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Can one individual influence the course of history? In the example of Churchill and the Middle East during post-World War I, the answer is an irrefutable yes. Winston S. Churchill, first as Secretary for War and Air, and then as Colonial Secretary, both formulated and enacted the British imperial …
Multicultural Challenge in Israel
Inbunden, 2009
1514 kr
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Delving into Israel’s multifaceted society, editors Avi Sagi and Ohad Nachtomy, along with their distinguished contributors, explore the many ethnic and religious communities that comprise modern Israel and the ways in which they interact and often misunderstand each other. Detailing both the …
Saints' Impresarios
Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery
Av Yoram Bilu
Inbunden, 2009
1470 kr
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The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s. The Saints' Impresarios charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, each established by Moroccan-born men and women in a peripheral …
Beyond Political Messianism
The Poetry of Second-Generation Religious Zionist Settlers
Inbunden, 2011
1478 kr
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In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self-expression. Based on interviews of eight key …
Zionist Arabesques
Modern Landscapes, Non-Modern Texts
Av Hadas Yaron
Inbunden, 2010
1400 kr
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Zionist Arabesques is an ethno-historical account of the landscape of the Jezreel Valley in Israel and explores how the modern landscape of the valley has been created, both physically and symbolically, from the perspective of both local and large-scale processes. It addresses not only the guiding …
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Changing Women, Changing Society
Av Dahlia Moore
Inbunden, 2011
1481 kr
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In Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, Dahlia Moore explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing status of women. While delving into some of Israel’s unique and influential forces, such as the army, religious sects, and recent immigration, Moore …
Who is Afraid of Historical Redress?
The Israeli Victim-Perpetrator Dichotomy
Av Ruth Amir
Inbunden, 2011
1559 kr
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With the Holocaust resonating as the "thick background," historical redress processes in Israel render a particularly challenging case. The simultaneous concern the Jewish community has with past, present and future redress campaigns, as both victim and perpetrator, is unique. Who is Afraid of …
Coat of Many Colors
Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel
Av Anat Helman
Inbunden, 2011
1258 kr
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A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a part …
Mysticism in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature
Inbunden, 2010
1432 kr
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Challenging the notion that Jewish mysticism ceased to exist in the Hassidic enclaves of early nineteenth century Europe, Hamutal Bar-Yosef delves into the mystical elements of twentieth-century Israeli literature. Exploring themes such as unity, death, and sex, Bar-Yosef traces the influence and …
Authority and Participation in a New Democracy
Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953
Av Avi Bareli
Inbunden, 2014
1510 kr
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Authority and Participation in a New Democracy focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel’s first ruling party, during Israel’s first years of independence, then analyzes the effects of these changes in relation to Israeli political culture. Bareli’s main claim is that it was only during …
Pale God
Israeli Secularism and Spinoza's Philosophy of Culture
Av Gideon Katz
Inbunden, 2011
1400 kr
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The Pale God examines the relationship between secularism and religious tradition. It begins with a description of the secular options as expressed by Israeli intellectuals, and describes how these options have led to a dead end. A new option must be sought, and one of the key sources for this …
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance
Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931–2013
Inbunden, 2014
1514 kr
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In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994–1996). The …
Liberal-Republican Quandary in Israel, Europe and the United States
Early Modern Thought Meets Current Affairs
Av Thomas Maissen, Fania Oz-Salzberger
Inbunden, 2012
1225 kr
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Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars, including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume offers a threefold intellectual juncture. Its contributors analyze the liberal- epublican tension-fi eld in a novel way, juxtaposing early modern …
