This pioneering handbook is presenting Israel in its intellectual controversies regarding Zionism, the making of the State of Israel and contemporary Israeli society. In more than a dozen of thematic sections, a wide range of perspectives is covered. Among the debated key topics…
Irit Amit-Cohen explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus orchards and plantations from Israel's coastal scenery. The book reveals the biographies of entrepreneurs who came to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. Exposing the uniqueness of the plantation companies, describing …
This critique of Left Zionism argues a Jewish-only state cannot offer peace or justice for Palestinians.
Soviet Jews: making history -- Beginnings -- Context and strategies -- Developments and divisions -- Legalization and mass aliya
Between worlds -- From Prague to Jerusalem: Hugo Bergmann -- We can never be fully at home: Gershom Scholem in Eretz Yisrael -- Between exile and refuge: Gabriele Tergit in Palestine -- Else Laster- Schüler in Palestine: land of the Jews or "ugly Israel"? -- Arnold Zweig goes ho…
Challenges the nationalist and Zionist hegemony by discussing the hidden history of Communist and bi-national movements in Israel.
