Routledge handbook on contemporary Israel. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook on contemporary Israel; Contemporary Israel
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Guy Ben-Porat, Yariv Feniger, Dani Filc, Paula Kabalo, Julia Mirsky.
• Editors: Ben-Porat, Guy; Feniger, Yariv; Filc, Dani; Kabalo, Paula; Mirsky, Julia
• Contents: Introduction Part 1: Historical Overview 1. Zionism between Despair and Hope Arieh Saposnik 2. Mamlakhtiyut: The Zionist and Israeli version of Republicanism Avi Bareli and Nir Kedar 3. Melting Pot and Plurality of Cultures in Early Israel Paula Kabalo 4. The Palestinian National Movement: A Short History Mustafa Kabha 5. Israel's Foreign Policy: The Historical Mound Uri Bialer Part 2: Institutions 6. The Political System and Political Parties Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan 7. Israeli Organized Civil Society: Trends and Challenges of the Nonprofit Sector Michal Almog-Bar 8. Major Contemporary Trends in Civil-Military Relations in Israel Yagil Levy 9. Israel’s Legal System: Institutions, Principles and Challenges Tamar Hostovsky-Brandes 10. The Israeli Education System Yariv Feniger, Yossi Shavit and Shir Caller 11. How the people of the book became the people of the media: The Israeli media landscape Amit M. Schejter Part 3: Foreign Relations and Policy 12. Israel and the Palestinians Salim Brake 13. Israel and the Arab World – from War to Peacemaking Eyal Zisser 14. The Special Relationship between the United States and Israel Jonathan Rynhold 15. The Rubik’s cube of Israeli-European Union relations Sharon Pardo and Hila Zahavi 16. Israel-Russia Bilateral Relations: Market Rationality and Political Affinity Dina Zisserman-Brodsky 17. Better Late than Never: China-Israel Diplomatic Relations in Perspective Yitzhak Shichor Part 4: Divisions and Schisms 18. Leadership Legitimacy, Responsiveness and Representation in Palestinian Society in Israel Amal Jamal 19. Religious Zionism – Romantic Religious Nationalism in Israel Shlomo Fischer 20. Religion in Contemporary Israel: Haredi Varieties Lea Taragin-Zeller and Nurit Stadler 21. Israel: Between Religion and Secularism Guy Ben-Porat 22. Haredism vs. Traditionalism: A New Reading of Mizrahi Religious Politics at the Start of the 21st Century Nissim Leon 23. The Ethiopian Jews in Israel Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder 24. Acculturation as a two-way process: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel Evgeny Knaifel 25. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Gender Relations in Contemporary Israel Tair Karazi-Presler and Orna Sasson-Levy 26. Paradoxes of control: Incorporating precarious migrants in Tel Aviv in times of restrictive migration policies Adriana Kemp and Nora Meissner 27. Demographic Trends in Israel Ahmad Hleihel 28. Israel’s Economic Development – an overview Benjamin Bental and Avi Weiss 29. The Israeli Labor Market Tali Kristal and Alina Rozenfeld-Kiner 30. The Startup Nation: Myths and Reality Erez Maggor and Michal Frenkel 31. Neoliberalization of Welfare and Social Protest Dani Filc 32. Peripheralities Erez Tzfadia and Moti Gigi Part 5: Culture 33. Desert, Hill, and Sea: Cinematic Visions and Re-Visions of War Miri Talmon 34. Bass and Silsulim: Israeli Music after muzika Mizrahit Oded Erez 35. Who Killed Poetry? An Israeli Perspective Michael Gluzman 36. Large, Cheap and Mizrahi ("Oriental"): Israeli Cuisine Nir Avieli
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 956.94; Israel -- History; Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993-; Israel -- Foreign relations; Israel -- Economic conditions; Israel -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000591194; 9781000591149; 9780429281013
• Related ISBNs: 9780367236526
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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