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Israel : the first decade of independence
- Title
- Israel : the first decade of independence / edited by S. Ilan Troen and Noah Lucas.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
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- Description
- xv, 779 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Thirty-two authoritative essays expose the first decade of Israel's statehood to new analysis by historians and social scientists. Readers will develop a sharper understanding of change and continuity in society. The essays focus on 'social and economic transitions', 'literature and popular images', 'Israel and the diaspora', etc. This is a good choice for the leader/teacher of Israel courses of an academic nature.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in Israeli studies
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in Israeli studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- An introduction to research on Israel's first decade / S. Ilan Troen and Noah Lucas -- Israel's first decade : building a civic state / Alan Dowty -- The structural foundation for religio-political accommodation in Israel : fallacy and reality / Menachem Friedman -- The road not taken : constitutional non-decision making in 1948-1950 and its impact on civil liberties in the Israeli political culture / Philippa Strum -- New challenges to new authority : Israeli grassroots activism in the 1950s / Tamar Hermann -- The "Utopian leap" in David Ben-Gurion's social thought, 1920-1958 / Yosef Gorny -- Sharett's "Line", struggles, and legacy / Gabriel Sheffer -- Political religion in a new state : Ben-Gurion's Mamlachtiyut / Eliezer Don-Yehiya -- Mapai and the "Kastner Trial" / Yechiam Weitz -- The commander of the 'Yizkor' Order : Herut, Holocaust and survivors / Hannah Torok Yablonka -- The economic regime during Israel's first decade / Nachum T. Gross -- The crisis in the Kibbutz Movement, 1949-1961 / Henry Near -- The Kibbutz in the 1950s : a transformation of identity / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- The contribution of the labor economy to immigrant absorption and population dispersal during Israel's first decade / Yitzhak Greenberg -- Israeli nationalism and socialism before and after 1948 / Noah Lucas -- The fiction of the "Generation in the Land" / Ezra Spicehandler -- Israeli literature as an emerging national literature / Glenda Abramson -- War and religiosity : the Sinai campaign in public thought / Yona Hadari-Ramage -- Early social survey research in and on Israel / Russell A. Stone and S. Ilan Troen -- The transfer to Jewish control of abandoned Arab lands during the War of Independence / Arnon Golan -- New departures in Zionist planning : the development town / S. Ilan Troen -- Planning, housing, and land policy 1948-1952: the formation of concepts and governmental frameworks / Ruth Kark -- Creating homogeneous space : the evolution of Israel's Regional Councils / David Newman -- Styles of ethnic adaptation : interpreting Iraqi and Moroccan settlement in Israel / Alex Weingrod -- Mapam and the European and Oriental immigrations / Eli Tzur -- The silent partner : Holocause survivors in the IDF / Hanna Torok Yablonka -- The civilian components of Israel's security doctrine : the evolution of civil-military relations in the first decade / Moshe Lissak -- Utopia in uniform / Ze'ev Drori -- An uneasy coexistence : Arabs and Jews in the first decade of statehood / Ilan Pappé -- Crime and law enforcement in the Israeli Arab population under the military government, 1948-1966 / Alina Korn -- The Zionist Movement and the State of Israel, 1948-1952 : a formation of normal interrelations / Yosef Gorny -- Philanthropy and politics : modes of interaction between Israel and the Diaspora / Ernest Stock -- Defining relationships : the Joint Distribution Committee and Israel, 1948-1950 / Dalia Ofer -- American Jewry and Israel : the first decade and its implications for today / Melvin I. Urofsky.
- ISBN
- 0791422593
- 9780791422595
- 0791422607
- 9780791422601
- 0585045674
- 9780585045672
- LCCN
- 94006121
- OCLC
- ocm29912379
- 29912379
- SCSB-14424203
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library