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Blood Brothersby Elias Chacour; David Hazard
Baker Publishing Group 2003; US$ 12.99Riveting, true-life story of a Christian Palestinian from Galilee brings to life the history of modern Israel and offers insight into living at peace. more...
Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israelby Riad M. Nasser
Routledge 2004; US$ 148.00This study examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that national discourse are systems of meanings in which identities develop via difference. more...
Israeli Palestiniansby Alexander Bligh
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 61.95This edited collection offers a comprehensive analysis of the most significant factors to have contributed to the current relations between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. more...
The Sabraby Oz Almog
University of California Press 2000; US$ 12.95The Sabra were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialised and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labour movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer forebears into the reality of the new State of Israel. more...
The Invention and Decline of Israelinessby Baruch Kimmerling
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over, Baruch Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures. more...
Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflictby Daniel Bar-Tal; Yona Teichman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 44.00On the basis of knowledge accumulated in social, developmental, and political psychology, sociology, political science, cultural studies and communication, the book presents integrative conceptual frameworks, which are used to analyze the representation of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society. more...
Palestinian Diasporaby Helena Lindholm Schulz
Routledge 2003; US$ 59.95From the refugee camps in Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity as well as on nationalist politics tied to a particular territory. But The Palestinian Diaspora also sheds light on the possibilities opened up by a transnational existence, the possibility of new, less territorialized identities, even in a diaspora as bound to the idea of an idealized homeland as the Palestinian.... more...
Immigration and ethnic formation in a deeply divided societyby M. Al-Haj
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...
Encyclopedia of the Palestiniansby Philip Mattar
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 90.00Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, Revised Edition is the definitive source for high school students, undergraduates, and general readers who want an account of these people and their long history. Much has happened since the first edition was published, including the breakdown of negotiations at Camp David, the subsequent outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the death of Yasir Arafat, and the election of Mahmud Abbas, commonly known as Abu Mazen, as president of the Palestinian Authority. This comprehensive resource includes new entries on recent developments and personalities, updates of many of the existing entries, and approximately 50 black-and-white photographs and additional maps. A document section has been added to the end of the book,... more...
The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identityby Dov Waxman
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Offers an analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, this book reveals how a crisis of Israeli identity inflamed the debate in Israel over the Oslo peace process. more...









