4 “A Nation that Dwelleth Alone”: Judaism as an Integrating and Divisive Factor in Israeli Society

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. History and Memory
5. Reassessing Israel’s Road to Sinai/Suez, 1956: A “Trialogue” 3
6. The Holocaust and Its Fifty-Year-Old Commemoration: Have We Reached the Limit? 43
7. Israeli Society: The Jewish Community
8. Controlling Territory: Spatial Dimensions of Social and Political Change in Israel 67
9. “A Nation that Dwelleth Alone”: Judaism as an Integrating and Divisive Factor in Israeli Society 89
10. Israeli Society: The Arab Community
11. Palestinians in Israel: Social and Educational Conditions in the 1990s 115
12. Research on Welfare and Well-being in Israel: A Palestinian Perspective 135
13. Whither Post-Zionism?
14. Does Post-Zionism Have a Future? 159
15. The Open Society and Its Enemies: Changing Public Discourse in Israel 181
16. Literature as a Response to Paradox: On Reading A. B. Yehoshua’s A Journey to the End of the Millennium 203
17. Peace Process
18. Anthologizing the Peace Process 221
19. Power-Relations, Recognition, and Dialogue: The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Peace 239
20. Economics as a Security Tool in an Era of “Peace” in the Middle East 263
21. Israel Studies Around the World
22. Changing Italian Perspectives on Israel 285
23. Israel Turns Fifty: New Books Published in Germany 303
24. Israel in Chinese Scholarship 321
25. Notes on the Contributors and the Editors 341