The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.

Applies clinical pyschology to explain the dynamics of the Middle East peace process.

Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s.

Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.

Covers early Israeli education policy regarding immigrant populations.

A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer.

Traces the almost century-long struggle between Israel's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments.

Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.

Covers Israel's policy toward Islamic institutions within its borders, 1948-2000.

Examines the difficulties of Palestinian-Arab political life in Israel.

Explores the beliefs, attitudes, and values of ordinary Palestinians and Israeli Jews asking the question: Is it possible to reach a negotiated resolution to the Jerusalem question?

Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.

An interdisciplinary study discussing the impact of the national crisis in Mandatory Palestine on relations between Jewish and Arab workers and their respective labor movements.

Leading American and Israeli social scientists discuss the precedent-setting events of Israel’s 1996 elections.

Offers insights into the criminal justice system and the field of criminology in Israel.

Questions the commonly accepted view that Israel's military policies were formed in direct response to Arab states' hostility and argues for a historical linkage between Israel's changing military posture and the development of an inequitable Israeli social structure.

Analyzes a recent report on a survey of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews, and of the intense public debate that it produced.

Examines eight Jewish-American writers--Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich--who have "imagined" Israel in their work.

This first comprehensive study of the political life of Israeli women looks at political participation, political identity, women's political organizations, and public policy regarding women.

The first comprehensive analysis of the effect the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict has had on state and society in Israel.

The standard histories of Israeli literature limit the canon, virtually ignoring those who came to Israel from Jewish communities in the Middle East. By focusing on the work of Iraqi-born authors, this ...

Challenges the social-science image of Israel as a historical peculiarity by situating Israel's history in comparative context; by building bridges between Israel and other Middle Eastern states; and by using the Israeli case to reconsider existing social science theories and correct common misperceptions about the comparative method.

This book provides new interpretations and research findings, from a wide spectrum of viewpoints, on Israel's formative first decade of independence.

A collection of essays that examines the culture, politics, and social structure of Hasidic Jewish life.