Israel Studies Bulletin Board

Lecture: Cohen, Jerusalem in Palestinian-Arab and Israeli-Jewish Identities

January 28, 2012 by Aryeh

Taube Center for Jewish Studies – Stanford University

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:00pm

Building 360 (CCSRE) – Conference Room

Hillel Cohen

Professor of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University

Jerusalem in Palestinian-Arab and Israeli-Jewish Identities

Co-sponsored with Mediterranean Studies Forum and Department of History

Posted in Lecture / Public Talk, Public Events | Tagged Identity, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem, Jerusalem: Palestinians, Jewish Identity, Sacred Space | Leave a Comment »

CFP: Framing Ethnicity in Israel, Temple U (Deadline Feb 15)

January 28, 2012 by Aryeh

The Mirowski Family Foundation, Jewish Studies and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University invite submissions for a one and a half day workshop, April 19-20, at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

Israeli society is punctuated by a variety of sectors and social identities. The aim of the workshop is to examine trends since the 1980s of framing identity, "race" and ethnicity in Israel in the light of neo-liberalism, globalization and domestic politics.

We are interested in groups that have been underexamined in Israeli society and those which have undergone interesting quantitative and qualitative changes in the last few decades. We encourage proposals from a variety of disciplines-Sociology, Demography, History, Political Science, Anthropology, etc. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

· New identities-political, cultural, religious

· Racism, chauvinism, discrimination

· Subcultures and cultural hybridity

· Orientalism and its critics

· Migration and absorption

Please submit a 1 page proposals by February 15, 2012 to

Posted in CFP, Public Events | Tagged Aliyah / Immigration to Israel, Ethnic Divide, Gender, Israel: Society, Orientalism, Racism, Sex Roles, Sexism | Leave a Comment »

Reviews: Mautner, Law and the Culture of Israel

January 22, 2012 by Aryeh

Menachem Mautner, Law and the Culture of Israel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Reviews

Hofri-Winogradow, Adam. “Review.” Edinburgh Law Review 16 (2012): 125-126.

Posted in Bibliography, Book Review | Tagged Constitution, Democracy, Israel: Culture, Israel: Law, Israel: Religion, Israeli Palestinians, Multiculturalism, Religious-Secular Divide, Supreme Court | Leave a Comment »

Fellowship: Israel Studies at U Maryland (Postdoc)

January 19, 2012 by Aryeh

The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for the 2012-13 academic year. Appointments will be one or two semester positions. Full health benefits are included.

Eligibility

Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. by August, 2012. We are less interested in the Israel-Palestinian conflict and more in other aspects of Israel Studies.

Responsibilities

Fellows will be expected to be at College Parl full-time, teach two courses each semester, and participate in the Institute’s activities. Some teaching may be at the post-graduate level.

Applications

Applicants should submit a detailed letter of interest, C.V. (including publications – with links if possible – and teaching experience), the names and emails of 3 references, and at least 3 descriptions (2-3 sentences each) of courses they would be qualified to teach. A sample syllabus is welcome but not required.

Applications are due by February 15, 2012. All materials should be emailed to Jennifer Kilberg at jkilberg@umd.edu. For more information about Israel Studies at UMD visit www.israelstudies.umd.edu.

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Reviews: Gelber, Nation and History

January 16, 2012 by Aryeh

Yoav Gelber. Nation and History: Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post-Zionism. London and Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.

Reviews

Ilan Fuchs, “Old v. New? On Historiography and Israeli History.” H-Net Reviews, January 2012.

Posted in Bibliography, Book Review | Tagged Historiography, History, Post-Zionism, Zionism | Leave a Comment »

Reviews: Chetrit, Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel

January 14, 2012 by Aryeh

Sami Shalom Chetrit, Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel. White Jews, Black Jews. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. London / New York: Routledge, 2009.

Reviews:

Orit Bashkin, “Review.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 43.2 (2011): 331-333.

Posted in Bibliography, Book Review | Tagged Ashkenazi Israelis, Economy, Ethnic Divide, Identity, Israel: Society, Mizrahi Israelis, Mizrahim / Ashkenazim Rift | Leave a Comment »

Cite: Weitz, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan

January 14, 2012 by Aryeh

Weitz, Yechiam. “The Founding Father and the General: David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan.” Middle Eastern Studies 47.6 (2011): 845-861.

URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/mes/2011/00000047/00000006/art00001

Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged David Ben-Gurion, History, Israel: Politics, Moshe Dayan | Leave a Comment »

Cite: Koldas, Nakba in Palestinian Memory in Israel

January 14, 2012 by Aryeh

Koldas, Umut. “The Nakba in Palestinian Memory in Israel.” Middle Eastern Studies 47.6 (2011): 947-959.

URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/mes/2011/00000047/00000006/art00006

Abstract

Changes in the international, regional and domestic arenas in the late 1990s resulted in discursive change with regard to interpretation of the Al Nakba in the political and civil societies of the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. Apart from fuelling a discursive challenge to the Israeli dominant discourse about the 1948 events, this reinterpretation allowed the Palestinian Arab citizens to discuss the historical roots of the problems they experienced within the Israeli political and civil societal spheres. This article analyses the nature and significance of discursive change of the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel on the Nakba by referring to its impact on their identity politics as well as their political and civil societal activities.

Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Israeli Palestinians, Nakbah | Leave a Comment »

Cite: Gunneflo, The Targeted Killing Judgment of the Israeli Supreme Court

January 14, 2012 by Aryeh

Gunneflo, Markus. "The Targeted Killing Judgment of the Israeli Supreme Court and the Critique of Legal Violence." Law and Critique 2012 (online first; final publication details n/a)

URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j762431w1767056v/

Abstract

The targeted killing judgment of the Israeli Supreme Court has, since it was handed down in December 2006, received a significant amount of attention: praise as well as criticism. Offering neither praise nor criticism, the present article is instead an attempt at a ‘critique’ of the judgment drawing on the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin’s famous essay from 1921, ‘Critique of Violence’. The article focuses on a key aspect of Benjamin’s critique: the distinction between the two modalities of ‘legal violence’—lawmaking or foundational violence and law-preserving or administrative violence. Analysing the fact that the Court exercises jurisdiction over these killings in the first place, the decision on the applicable law as well as the interpretation of that law, the article finds that the targeted killing judgment collapses this distinction in a different way from that foreseen by Benjamin. Hence, the article argues, the targeted killing judgment is best understood as a form of administrative foundational violence. In conclusion Judith Butler’s reading of Benjamin’s notion of ‘divine violence’ is considered, particularly his use of the commandment, ‘thou shalt not kill’, as a non-violent violence that must be waged against the kind of legal violence of which the targeted killing judgment is exemplary.

Posted in Bibliography, Journal article | Tagged Aharon Barak, Israel: Law, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Judith Butler, Occupation, Supreme Court, Violence | Leave a Comment »