Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1 The Crystallization of the State and the Struggles Over Rulemaking: Israel in Comparative Perspective Joel S. Migdal Chapter 2 Before the State: Communal Politics in Palestine Under the Mandate Dan Horowitz Chapter 3 Citizenship, Nationality and Religion in Israel and Thailand Erik Cohen Chapter 4 Jewish Organized Labor and the Palestinians: A Study of State/Society Relations in Israel Michael Shalev Chapter 5 Children's Perceptions of Minority Rights: Israel in a Cross-National Perspective Charles W. Greenbaum, Leon Mann and Shoshana Harpaz Chapter 6 The Social Meaning of Alternative Systems: Some Exploratory Notes Nachman Ben-Yehuda Chapter 7 The State of Israel as a Theological Dilemma Menachem Friedman Chapter 8 The Structure and Dilemmas of Israeli Pluralism Judith T. Shuval Index

About the Author

Baruch Kimmerling is Professor at Hebrew University and Director of the Center for the Study and Documentation of Israeli Society.

Reviews

"It deals with exceedingly important issues scarcely touched by an earlier generation of Israeli social scientists. The topic is central to the study of Israeli society, and the book makes innovative contributions to sociological theory. It represents first-rate scholarship." - Robert J. Brym, University of Toronto "There are provocative and insightful notions, and readers will come away with an appreciation both of the complexities of Israeli society and of the difficulty of charting its boundaries and explaining their creation and evolution." - Mark Tessler, University of Wisconsin