Introduction 1. Ivory Tower and Embassy: Interview with Itamar Rabinovich Part I: History, Economics, and Politics 2. The Yishuv's Early Capabilities: Organization, Leadership, and Policies Tobe Shanok 3. The Transition to a Market Economy: The Road Half Taken Ofira Seliktar 4. Israel as a Liberal Democracy: Civil Rights in the Jewish State Ilan Peleg 5. "Normal" or "Special"? Israel's Relationships with America and Germany in Historical Perspective David Rodman Part II: Society and Culture 6. Mythmaking and Commemoration in Israeli Culture David C. Jacobson 7. Prophecy of Wrath: Israeli Society as Reflected in Satires for Children Yaakova Sacerdoti 8. Women's Issues in the Literary Marketplace: Anthologies of Israeli Women Writers Hanita Brand 9. Yemenite Jews on the Zionist Altar Nitza Druyan Part III: Israel in the Region 10. Policy Transformation in the Middle East: Arms Control Regimes and National Security Reconciled Hemda Ben-Yehuda 11. Palestinian Sovereignty and Israeli Security: Dilemmas of the Permanent-Status Negotiations Naomi Weinberger 12. The Domestic-International Confluence: The Challenge of Israel's Water Problems Jeffrey Sosland Part IV: Views of Israel from the Arab World 13. On Opposite Sides of the Hill: Syrian and Israeli Perspectives Eyal Zisser 14. Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization? Deborah A. Starr 15. Arab-Israeli Economic Relations and Relative Gains Concerns Maen F. Nsour 16. The Debate over Normalization: Adonis and His Arab Critics Muhammad Muslih Contributors
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.
"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
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