The Saints' Impresarios

Yoram Bilu

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1... Lees meer

Mysticism in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature

Hamutal Bar-Yosef

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Challenging the notion that Jewish mysticism ceased to exist in the Hassidic enclaves of early nineteenth century Europe, Hamutal Bar-Yosef delves int... Lees meer

Alternative and Bio-Medicine in Israel

Judith T Shuval, Emma Averbuch

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• This book explores the macro and micro social contexts in which alternative and bio-medicine co-exist in Israel. It includes a history of alternative ... Lees meer

The Multicultural Challenge in Israel

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Delving into Israel's multifaceted society, editors Avi Sagi and Ohad Nachtomy, along with their distinguished contributors, explore the many ethnic a... Lees meer

Acco Festival

Naphtaly Shem-Tov

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Explores the history of Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012 as a site of celebration and confrontation. Acco Festival is a borderla... Lees meer

Hebrew Classics

Dvir Abramovich

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• In this book, Dvir Abramovich brings together a batch of timeless classical Hebrew novels, short stories, and poems, and furnishes readers with commen... Lees meer

A Coat of Many Colors

Anat Helman

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the... Lees meer

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Dahlia Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• In Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, Dahlia Moore explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing... Lees meer

The Charm of Wise Hesitancy

David C Jacobson

• Paperback | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• This volume explores the growing fascination with Talmudic stories among secular and religious Israelis in recent decades, inspired by contemporary Is... Lees meer

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Dahlia Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• In Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, Dahlia Moore explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing... Lees meer

Carnival in Tel Aviv

Hizky Shoham

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban... Lees meer

Eros and Tragedy

Ofer Nordheimer Nur

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Between 1920 and 1922, hundreds of members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement left the defunct Habsburg Monarchy and sailed to Palestine, where a ... Lees meer

The Liberal-Republican Quandary in Israel, Europe and the United States

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars, including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume ... Lees meer

The Israeli Nation-State

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• This volume of original essays, by some of Israel's most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analys... Lees meer

The Pale God

Gideon Katz

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• The Pale God examines the relationship between secularism and religious tradition. It begins with a description of the secular options as expressed by... Lees meer

Beyond Political Messianism

David C Jacobson

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideolo... Lees meer

The Charm of Wise Hesitancy

David C Jacobson

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• This volume explores the growing fascination with Talmudic stories among secular and religious Israelis in recent decades, inspired by contemporary Is... Lees meer

Who Is Afraid of Historical Redress?

Ruth Amir

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• With the Holocaust resonating as the "thick background," historical redress processes in Israel render a particularly challenging case. The simultaneo... Lees meer

Authority and Participation in a New Democracy

Avi Bareli

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Authority and Participation in a New Democracy focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel's first ruling party, during Israel's first years of ... Lees meer

Mo(ve)Ments of Resistance

Lev Luis Grinberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative ... Lees meer

The Israeli Nation-State

• Paperback | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• This volume of original essays, by some of Israel's most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analys... Lees meer

Mo(ve)Ments of Resistance

Lev Luis Grinberg

• Paperback | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative ... Lees meer

Kibbutz: Utopia and Politics

Aviva Halamish

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• This biography of Meir Yaari, the leader of Hashomer Hatza'ir and its Kibbutz movement, discusses pivotal issues in the history of the Jewish people a... Lees meer

Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse

Yakir Englander, Avi Sagi

• Hardcover | Engels | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
• Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily re... Lees meer