Israel: The First Decade of IndependenceS. Ilan Troen, Noah Lucas State University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 779 pages Israel presents a panoramic display of fresh interpretations and new research findings related to Israel's first decade of independence. Those years of rapid change are widely regarded as a formative period in the development of the state and the society. As new archival materials have become available for scrutiny, a new generation of historians and social scientists has begun to re-examine old issues and to raise new questions. In this context of academic ferment, scholars in diverse disciplines, of different generations and of opposing ideological orientations, have collaborated in this book in examining the period anew. Thirty-two authoritative essays offer new understandings from the diverse perspectives of history, political science, sociology, literary criticism, geography, anthropology, and law. The intention is to provide a wide-ranging reconsideration of post-independence Israel that will serve as a benchmark for future study and research. |
Contents
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Building a Civic State | 31 |
The Structural Foundation for ReligioPolitical Accommodation | 51 |
Constitutional NonDecision Making | 83 |
Israeli Grassroots Activism | 105 |
The Utopian Leap in David BenGurions | 125 |
Sharetts Line Struggles and Legacy | 143 |
Mapai and the Kastner Trial | 195 |
The Sinai Campaign in Public Thought | 355 |
Early Social Survey Research in and on Israel | 375 |
The Transfer to Jewish Control of Abandoned Arab Lands | 403 |
The Development Town | 441 |
Interpreting Iraqi and Moroccan | 523 |
Mapam and the European and Oriental Immigrations | 543 |
Holocaust Survivors in the IDF | 557 |
Utopia in Uniform | 593 |
The Commander of the Yizkor Order | 211 |
The Economic Regime during Israels First Decade | 231 |
The Crisis in the Kibbutz Movement 19491961 | 243 |
The Kibbutz in the 1950s A Transformation of Identity | 265 |
The Contribution of the Labor Economy to Immigrant | 279 |
Israeli Nationalism and Socialism before and after 1948 | 297 |
The Fiction of the Generation in the Land | 313 |
Israeli Literature as an Emerging National Literature | 331 |
Arabs and Jews in the First Decade | 617 |
Crime and Law Enforcement in the Israeli Arab Population | 659 |
The Zionist Movement and the State of Israel | 683 |
Modes of Interaction between | 699 |
The Joint Distribution Committee | 713 |
Information on Contributors | 751 |
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