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Israel's Quest for Recognition and Acceptance in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 58.95This title represents a comprehensive study of Israel's attempts to build diplomatic relations with countries on the Asian continent. The author argues that, despite the persistence of the Arab Israeli conflict, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was remarkably successful in gaining recognition in most Asian countries. He provides an overview of Israel's... more...
Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about... more...
Jewish Life In The Middle Ages
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95"Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" is a fascinating and well-known look at life in the middle ages for the Jewish community. The author also gives attention to how the European movements of the middle ages were affected by Jewish influences. Topics addressed include: social functions of the synagogue, decay of the sermon in the middle ages, the origin... more...
Facts on the Ground
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 27.50Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions... more...
Seeking Mandela
Temple University Press 2005; US$ 27.95The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis among Israelis and Palestinians resemble the gloomy period in South Africa during the late 1980s. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that these analogies with South Africa can be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two purposes: to showcase South Africa as an inspiring model for a negotiated... more...
Israel in the World
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel?s troubled attempts to balance its desire to be different from a world that it simultaneously genuinely needs and that it also wants... more...
Jewish People
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 160.00Contributors to this book include Anson F. Rainey, Shmuel Safrai, Haim Beinart, and Evyatar Friesel.This is the first atlas of its kind to document in such great detail the turbulent history of the Jewish people. A work of prodigious and meticulous scholarship by some of Israel's most brilliant scholars, this atlas portrays every aspect of Jewish... more...
Immigration and ethnic formation in a deeply divided society
BRILL 2004; US$ 74.00This work deals with the ethnic formation among the 1990s immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, in light of both domestic changes, and developments in the Israel-Arab conflict. It presents an analysis of identity patterns among these immigrants. more...
After Jews and Arabs
University of Minnesota Press 1992; US$ 108.00By exposing the rich and diverse textual and cultural legacy of this time and space, Alcalay reassesses the exclusion of Semitic culture in Europe from the perspective of contemporary Arabic culture and opposing images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book will compel a revision of Jewish studies by placing contemporary Israeli culture within... more...
Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987 and 1992. In particular the book discusses how the... more...









