Israeli identity between Orient and Occident
"For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a Western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membe...
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New York, NY
Routledge
2013.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Middle Eastern society
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Table of Contents:
- Israel in or of the Middle East / David Tal
- How it began: Europe vs. the Middle East in the orientation of the first Zionist settlers / Alan Dowty
- Israel and the Middle East: on the unresolved matter of Israel's foreign policy orientation / Aharon Klieman
- Unfortunate misplacement: Israeli-Jewish public perceptions of Israel in the Middle East / Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yaar-Yuchtman
- The Israeli party system in comparative perspective: a 'unique case' or part of the West European tradition? / Casba Nikolenyi
- Where East meets West / David Ohana
- The irresolvable geographies of Mediterranean-Israeli music / Amy Horowitz
- The architect and critic Leo Adler and the definition of Tel Aviv as a modern Mediterranean city / Yossi (Joseph) Klein
- Double exclusion and the search for inessential solidarities: the experience of Iraqi Jews as heralding a new concept of identity and belonging / Reuven Snir
- Remote participants: lessons about Israeli identity from the experience of Israeli parents in America / Udi Sommer and Michael Ben Zvi Sommer
- The Israeli triangle: (de)constructing the borders between Israeliness, Jewishness and migrant workers / Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida
- Israeli cinema's 'I'm in the East and my heart is in the West' / Igal Bursztyn
- Visions of East and West in contemporary Israeli cinema and television / Paul Kubicek
- MediterEastern blues: new discourses of locality in Israeli cinema / Miri Talmon
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the psychosocial and identity impact on Arab and Jewish adolescents in Israel / Alean al-Krenawi
- Paradoxes of identity: Jewish/Muslim interpenetration in Almog Behar and Sayed Kashua / Ranen Omer-Sherman
- Democracy and liberal-democratic values in Religious-Zionist discourse: the case of Halakhic Q&A websites / Oren Steinitz.