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| 1. |  | Title: Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti' . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century  Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Law | History Publisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Land, labor and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914 Author: Shafir, Gershon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Popular music and national culture in Israel Author: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Middle Eastern Studies | Popular Culture | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Intimate enemies: Jews and Arabs in a shared land Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Pales . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Jewish Studies | Ecology | Geography | Conservation Publisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in Israel Author: Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, nuan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the military Author: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This 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 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Christianity | Judaism | Islam | Christianity Publisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: From catastrophe to power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of Israel Author: Zertal, Idith Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Judaism | History Publisher's Description: In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | Social Theory Publisher's Description: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Palestinian politics after the Oslo Accords: resuming Arab Palestine Author: Brown, Nathan J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The poetics of military occupation: Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule Author: Lavie, Smadar Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Military History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The Arab world: society, culture, and state Author: Barakat, Halim Isber Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East s . . . [more] Similar Items |