Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2016

Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

Edited by: Eliezer Ben-Rafael , Julius H. Schoeps , Yitzhak Sternberg and Olaf Glöckner
Compiled by: Anne Weberling

In the series De Gruyter Reference

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110351637

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About this book

The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism, democracy and religion, (in)equality, colonialism, today’s criticism of Israel, Israel-Diaspora relations, and peace programs. Outstanding scholars face each other with unadulterated, divergent analyses. These historical, political and sociological texts from Israel and elsewhere make up a major reference book within academia and outside academia. About seventy contributions grouped in thirteen thematic sections present controversial and provocative approaches refl ecting, from different angles, on the present-day challenges of the State of Israel.

Other Major Works by the Editors:

Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Is Israel One? Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity Confounded, Brill (2005)
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel, Cambridge University Press (paperback) (2007)

Julius H. Schoeps
Begegnungen. Menschen, die meinen Lebensweg kreuzten. Suhrkamp (2016)
Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf. Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict. De Gruyter (2013)

Yitshak Sternberg
World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Relational Dialectic. Brill (2010).
Transnationalism. Brill (2009)

Olaf Glöckner
Being Jewish in 21st Century Germany. De Gruyter (2015, with Haim Fireberg)
Deutschland, die Juden und der Staat Israel. Olms (2016, with Julius H. Schoeps)

Author / Editor information

Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel-Aviv Univ.; Julius H. Schoeps, MMZ; Yitzhak Sternberg, Beit Berl Academic College; Olaf Glöckner, MMZ, Potsdam.

Reviews

“Bringing together 68 contributions organized in thirteen thematic sections, the Handbook of Israel enables readers to dive into an impressive overview of discussions and controversies around the complexities of Israeli society, its institutional matrices and multiple identities. (…) The editors have done a superb job, introducing each part and its subsections (‘topics’), describing accurately the major lines of discussion and debate (…). It is almost impossible to sum up the vast amount of knowledge and wisdom, as well as the diversity of subjects and contributions of this reference work.”

Luis Roniger in: the Israel Studies Review, Vol. 33/3, (2018)

“Usually, social scientists describe and analyze Israel in order to promote their own vision, and often to criticize other perspectives. These two solid and impressive volumes propose much more: they voice the debates that this complex, fascinating and important experience has provoked. The reader gets access to these debates, at the best level, and his or her own level of comprehension benefits from these texts that confront the challenges and trials faced by Israel.”
Michel Wieviorka, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

"[Die Beiträge] bieten klar formulierte Thesen, lassen sich als Narrative lesen und bilden mit ausführlichen Personen- und Sachregistern ein hilfreiches Nachschlagewerk. Die Autoren und Autorinnen – Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler, Juristen und Soziologen, Psychologen und Kulturwissenschaftler – sind, mit wenigen Ausnahmen, israelische Experten an führenden Universitäten und Akademien des Landes.”
Jakob Hessing in: Der Tagesspiegel 31. 05. 2017

“In der Zusammenschau der unterschiedlichen Problematiken geht das Buch über die Diskussionen der einzelnen Aspekte hinaus, die sich in verschiedenen partiellen Debatten vertiefen lassen. So könnte die MMZ-Publikation auch über die tagespolitischen Aspekte hinaus zu einem wichtigen Nachschlagewerk werden.”
Richard Rabensaat in: Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, 09.03.2017

“Neue Referenzgröße. WissenschaftlerInnen analysieren im „Handbook of Israel“ den israelischen Staat. Es hat das Zeug zu einem neuem Standardwerk. [...] diese [r] Bände [...] werden noch für mindestens zwei Jahrzehnte die unverzichtbare Referenzgröße, ja das herausragende Standardwerk in Israel, den USA und Deutschland sein.”
Micha Brumlik in: taz 20.06.2017

“Das Handbook of Israel ist ein aktuelles Standardwerk mit dem Potenzial, die Debatten über den jüdischen Staat zu qualifizieren und neue Sichtweisen auf das Land und seine Gesellschaft aufzuzeigen.”
Jérôme Lombard, Jüdische Allgemeine, 08.12.2016

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of Content Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
General Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part A: Cleavages
Topic I: Israel – West, East, or Global?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
1. Israeli Culture Today: How Jewish? How Israeli? Zohar Shavit and Yaacov Shavit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
2. To What Degree Is Israeli Culture Jewish, and to What Degree Israeli? David Ohana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Hebrew Culture in Israel: Between Europe, the Middle East, and America Uri Ram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4. Israeli Culture(s) Today: Globalized Archipelago of Isolated Communities Alek D. Epstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. Bauhaus Architecture in Israel: De-Constructing a Modernist Vernacular and the Myth of Tel Aviv’s “White City” Ines Sonder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. Yam Tikhoniut: Mediterraneanism as a Model for Identity Formation in between Alexandra Nocke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Topic II: A Theocracy?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. Religion and State, One and the Same Dov Halbertal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
8. The Haredi-Secular Debate and the Shas Approach Nissim Leon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
9. The Secular State in Rabbinic Thought Shalom Ratzabi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
10. Religion and State in Israel Avi Sagi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
11. The Non-Separation of Religion and State in Israel: Does It Support the Racism and Nationalism Wave? Mordechai Kremnitzer and Amir Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Topic III: One People? One Nation?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
12. Russian-Speaking Israelis in the Ethno-Social Tapestry of Israel Larissa Remennick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
13. Immigration and Conflict in a Deeply Divided Society: The Encounter between Russian Immigrants and the Indigenous Palestinian Minority in Israel Majid Al-Haj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
14. “About Miracles”: The Flourishing of the “Torah World” of Yeshivot and Kollelim in Israel Menachem Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
15. The Divided People Revisited Eva Etzioni-Halevy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Topic IV: Ethnic (In)Equality
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
16. Inequality in Israel: In the End, Israel Produced Its Own 1% Shlomo Swirski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
17. What Has Become of the Ethnic Devil? Reflections on the Current State of Israeli Ethnicity Alex Weingrod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
18. On the Cultural Distinction between East and West among Israeli Jews Ze’ev Shavit and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
19. We and the Others: Majority Attitudes toward Non-Jews in Israel Rebeca Raijman and Anastasia Gorodzeisky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Topic V: Social (In)Justice
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
20. Social Justice in Israel: Shifting Paradigm Yossi Yonah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
21. Israel’s Socioeconomic Debate: A New Perspective Danny Gutwein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
22. A Short Economic History of Israel Avi Simhon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
23. The Myth of Ethnic Inequality in Israel Steven Plaut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Topic VI: Feminism
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
24. Debates within Israeli Feminism Henriette Dahan Kalev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
25. Navigating Gender Inequality in Israel: The Challenges of Feminism Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
26. The Schizophrenic Reality of Israeli Women: A Cinematic Perspective, 2014 Orit Kamir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
27. Gender Policy in Family and Society among Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Outside and Inside Influences Khawla Abu-Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
Topic VII: Discontinuities
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
28. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahapach”: The 1977 Realignment from a Political Historical Perspective Michal Shamir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
29. The Likud as a Dominant Party and Israel’s Post-1977 Infrastructure Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
30. The 1977 Changeover: The Emergence of a New Discourse among Palestinians in Israel Mohanad Mustafa and Muhammad Amara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
31. The 1977 Paradox: Immediate Crises and Long- Range Economic and Political Restructuring Outcomes of the Changeover Lev Luis Grinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
32. Dialectics of Change through Continuity: The 1977 Political Upheaval Revisited Arye Naor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	540
Part B: The Challenge of Post-Zionism
Topic VIII: Militarism?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
33. Israel: A Militaristic Society? Moshe Lissak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
34. Are Israel’s Media Critical of the IDF and the Security Culture? Yoram Peri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
35. Militarism and Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A New Approach Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	590
36. Patterns of Militarism in Israel Baruch Kimmerling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609
Topic IX: A Democracy?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	639
37. “Ethnocracy”: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/ Palestine Oren Yiftachel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	643
38. Israeli Democracy: Civic and Ethnonational Components Sammy Smooha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	672
39. What Kind of Democracy Is Israel? Alain Dieckhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	691
40. From Liberal Democracy to Ethnocracy: Different Conceptions of Israel’s Democracy Benyamin Neuberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	705
41. Israel’s Vision: Jewish and Democratic Ruth Gavison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	741
42. Is Israel a Democracy? Alan Dowty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	758
Topic X: Debating Post-Zionism
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	777
43. Understanding the Divide: Arabs and Jews in Israel As’ad Ghanem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	779
44. Is Israel a Colonial State? Gershon Shafir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	794
45. Is There Still a Future for Settlements in Zionist Ideology? Julius H. Schoeps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	809
46. The Colonialism/Colonization Perspective on Zionism/Israel Yitzhak Sternberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	823
47. What Do Those Who Claim Zionism Is Colonialism Overlook? Tuvia Friling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	848
48. Post-Zionism and Its Moral and Political Ramifications Amal Jamal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	873
49. The Debate over the “New Historians” in Israel Anita Shapira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	888
Topic XI: Criticism of Israel – A Kind of Antisemitism?
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	911
50. Post-Zionists and Anti-Zionists: The “Otherjews’” Hour Shmuel Trigano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	914
51. Parallel Lines: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the 21st Century Robert S. Wistrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	924
52. Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment Leonardo Senkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	944
53. Europe, Israel, the Jewish Communities, and Growing Antisemitism Olaf Glöckner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	966
54. Criticism of Israel: A New Antisemitism? Moshe Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	982
Part C: Israel Outward
Topic XII: Israel-Diaspora
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	995
55. The Changing Status of Zionism and Israel in Latin American Jewry Judit Bokser Liwerant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	998
56. Ethnicity and State Policy: Israel in the Discourse of the Jewish Press in the USA during the Past Generation Yosef Gorny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1028
57. The French State, the Vertical Alliance, and the State of Israel Pierre Birnbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1046
58. French Jewry and the Israelization of Judaism Yossi Shain and Sarah Fainberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1058
59. Israel and the Diaspora: Convergent and Divergent Markers Sergio DellaPergola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1080
60. Israel-Diaspora Relations: “Transmission Belts” of Transnationalism Eliezer Ben-Rafael Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1102
61. Negation of the Diaspora from an Israeli Perspective: The Case of A. B. Yehoshua Gideon Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1116
Topic XIII: The Conflict
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1131
62. “They help to weave the veil”: Edgar Salin and the Israel Economic and Sociological Research Project Karin Wilhelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1134
63. A Perspective on the Prospects of Settling the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict Mustafa Kabha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1161
64. Accords or Peace between Israel and the Palestinians Yoel Bin-Nun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1176
65. The Binational Dilemma Meron Benvenisti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1190
66. Why Is It So Difficult to Resolve the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict by Israeli Jews? A Socio- Psychological Approach Tamir Magal, Daniel Bar-Tal and Eran Halperin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1211
67. Perspectives of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 1917–2015 Shlomo Aronson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1240
68. The Two-State Solution: A Way Out of the Impasse Asher Susser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1260
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1275
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1281
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1285
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1293

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Edition: 2 vols.
Audience: Scholars and students of Israel studies, sociologists, political scientists; teachers and journalists.
Pages
- Front matter: 26
- Main content: 1304
Keywords: Israel; Zionismus; Demokratie; Ethnokratie; israelische Identität

eBook

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110351637

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Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110351606

Paperback

Published: June 11, 2018
ISBN: 9783110607727