ToC: Israel Studies Review 31.2 (2016)

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Aryeh

Israel Studies Review 31.2 (2016)

Table of Contents

Articles

The Puzzle of The University on Air: A Story of Media and Academia in Israel, 1977–2013 / Hagai Boas and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari (1–21)
Menachem Begin’s World Travels in the 1950s: A Road to Political Legitimacy / Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky (22–40)
The New Economic Policy of 1962: How Israeli Economists Almost Changed the Israeli Economy / Ronen Mandelkern (41–60)
War and Memory: The Israeli Communist Commemoration of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1986 / Amir Locker-Biletzki (61–79)
Israel Goes to the Polls: The Road to Elections for the Constituent Assembly, 1948–1949 / Meir Chazan (80–100)
Westernization and Israelization within Israel’s Extreme Orthodox Haredi Society / Menachem Keren-Kratz (101–129)
Turkish-Israeli Relations during the Cold War: The Myth of a Long ‘Special Relationship’ / Kilic Bugra Kanat (130–149)

Reviews

Uri Ram, The Return of Martin Buber: National and Social Thought in Israel from Buber to the Neo-Buberians [in Hebrew].
Christopher L. Schilling, Emotional State Theory: Friendship and Fear in Israeli Foreign Policy.
Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby, Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance.
Erella Grassiani, Soldiering under Occupation: Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
Assaf Meydani, The Anatomy of Human Rights in Israel: Constitutional Rhetoric and State Practice.
Yael Raviv, Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel.

ToC: Israel Studies 22.2 (2017)

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Aryeh

Israel Studies 22.2 (2017)

Table of Contents

Special Section: Religion And Ethnicity

Like a Phoenix: The Renaissance of Sephardic/Mizrahi Identity in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s / Avi Picard (pp. 1-25)
Philoumenos of Jacob’s Well: The Birth of a Contemporary Ritual Murder Narrative / David Gurevich and Yisca Harani (pp. 26-54)
William James in the Holy Land: Religious Experience and Secular-Believer Jewish Women in Israel / Hagar Lahav (pp. 55-77)
“Belfast Is Not Here”: The Israeli Press and the Good Friday Agreement / Aidan Beatty (pp. 78-95)

Articles

The Kibbutz and the Development Town: The Economic Dimension of Their Reciprocal Relations—The Case of the Hula Valley / Amir Goldstein (pp. 96-120)
Kibbutz Under Fire: Back to the Days of Sickle and Bayonet / Zeev Drory, Eyal Lewin and Eyal Ben-Ari (pp. 121-144)
The Fiscal Path to the State of Israel: Social Policy and State Building in the Yishuv during the Mandate / Michal Koreh and Daniel Béland (pp. 145-168)
What is Israeli in Israeli Art? A Psychoanalytic Solution / Efrat Biberman (pp. 169-187)

Bulletin: Israeli Music

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Aryeh

Journal ToC: Pe’imot 3 (2016):

כתב העת פעימות מהווה צוהר אל עולם המוזיקה והמחקר המוזיקולוגי בתוך הקשריו לשיח התרבותי העכשווי בארץ. המשתתפים בכתב העת קשורים בתחום המוזיקולוגיה – חוקרים וסטודנטים מתקדמים, מלחינים ומבצעים. המאמרים מכוונים לקהל מגוון: למוזיקאים, למוזיקולוגים ולכל שוחר מוזיקה, לאנשי ספרות, אמנות וקולנוע ולחוקרי חברה ותרבות.

ראובן סרוסי: כמה דברים על אריק שפירא
אסף שלג: לחשוב מחדש על דברי הימים של המוזיקה האמנותית הישראלית (וגם על יוסף טל)
יוסף גולדנברג: שתי רביעיות כלי קשת ישראליות מודרניות מוקדמות: “קשתות קיץ” מאת צבי אבני ו”תהלים” מאת עדן פרטוש
ענת רוזנשיין-ויקס: השאלות, שילובים ו”הלחנה מחדש” בשלוש יצירות מאת בטי אוליברו
הילה טמיר-אוסטרובר: התגלמות הטראומה באופרה “פנימה” מאת חיה צ׳רנובין
שושנה זאבי: הפואטיקה של חוויית הסף בשירה ובמוזיקה (“השער האפל” – דוד פוגל ואייל אדלר; “הכרמל האי-נראה” – זלדה וינעם ליף; “ציפור כלואה” – יאיר הורוביץ ומנחם ויזנברג)
אור שמש: שיחה עם ראובן סרוסי
אופיר אילזצקי: בקצה המדבר: שיחה עם אריק שפירא
מירה זכאי: שיחה עם עודד זהבי
ג’ונתן גולדמן: חיפוש אחר אינטראקציות: שיחה עם עופר פלץ

Articles

Uri Dorchin, Authorship, subjectivity and resistance in the mainstream: A lesson from Israeli rap
Al-Salim Farid, Music and Politics: Popular Music in Palestine and Israel Since 1967

Events

Ilana Webster-Kogen (SOAS), “Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv: Performing Otherness along Levinski Street,” Feb 9, 2017, 4pm. Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

Bulletin: ToC for Israel Studies, Israel Affairs, Journal of Israeli History, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Aryeh

Israel Studies 22.1 (2017): https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35431

George Brown and British Policy Towards Israel in the Aftermath of the Six-day War / Arieh Kochavi
Foreign News on US Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of News Coverage of Israel / Amnon Cavari, Moran Yarchi, Shira Pindyck
Not So “Special Relationship”?: US-Israel Relations During Barack Obama’s Presidency / Ilai Z. Saltzman
Israel’s Relations with the East African States of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania—From Independence to the Present / Michael B. Bishku
“Can It Be That Our Dormant Language Has Been Wholly Revived?”: Vision, Propaganda, and Linguistic Reality in the Yishuv Under the British Mandate / Zohar Shavit
Hierarchy, Representation, and Inclusion in a Reflective Democratic Culture: Conflicting Perspectives in Israel’s Nascent Years / Avi Bareli
Rhetoric of Decline in a Neo-liberal Context: Workers’ Committees and the Decline of Labor in Contemporary Israel / Gadi Nissim, David De Vries
Choosing One’s Life: Identity-swapping Plots in Popular Fiction by Israeli Haredi Women / Yael Shenker

Israel Affairs 23.1 (2017): http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fisa20/23/1

Can China–Taiwan ‘Cross-Straits’ relations serve as a model for Israeli–Palestinian cooperation? A proposal / Shoujun Cui, Joshua Teitelbaum & Meron Medzini
Turkey’s Islamist movement and the Palestinian cause: the 1980 ‘Liberation of Jerusalem’ demonstration and the 1997 ‘Jerusalem Night’ as case studies / Umut Uzer
Elon Moreh as a symbol / Elona Hornstein & Yossi Goldstein
Sources of media bias in coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid in German, British, and US newspapers / Michael Neureiter
Reading between the lines: questionable medical and journalistic ethics in Israeli newspaper coverage of medications / Anat Klin & Yovav Eshet
The policy of non-decision: the case of the dying patient law and the vegetative state patients in Israel / Shlomit Flint-Ashery, Michal Neubauer-Shani & Efraim Jaul
The impact of unguided rocket firings on the Israeli capital market / Tchai Tavor
The effect of changes in life expectancy on pension plans in Israel / Idit Sohlberg & Shaul Yutav
Audience gestures and horizon of expectations in Israeli theatre / Naphtaly Shem-Tov
The gap between knowledge and the ability to apply it: the case of adult Jewish-Israeli physical activity / Sima Zach, Sabina Lissitsa & Yair Galily
The political psychology of Israeli prime ministers: when hard-liners opt for peace / Valentina Morselli
Producing spoilers: peacemaking and the production of enmity in a secular age / Brian Callan
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism: representation, cognition and everyday talk / Umut Uzer

Journal of Israeli History 35.2 (2016): http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjih20/35/2

The politics of the Balfour Declaration: Nationalism, imperialism and the limits of Zionist-British cooperation / Danny Gutwein
Protecting the Jewish throat: Hebrew accent and hygiene in the Yishuv / Marco Di Giulio
Notes on the Zionist passage to India, or: The analogical imagination and its boundaries / Arie M. Dubnov
The Development Authority and the formative years of the Israeli land regime / Ella Trachtenberg, Alexandre Kedar & Deborah Shmueli
Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and Activity in the Jewish Community at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Joel D. Parker
The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron / Jan Zouplna
Ralph Bunche and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Mediation and the UN, 1947–1949 / Simon A. Waldman
Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives / Elana Gomel

Israeli journal of foreign affairs: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rifa20/10/2

The EU, UK, and Israel: What to “Brexpect” / Arie Reich
Turkish–Israeli Relations in Historical Perspective / David Kushner
The Arab Spring and Israel’s Relations with Egypt: A View from Turkey / Murat Agdemir
A Decade after Disengagement: Where Do We Go from Here? / Shany Mor
The Struggle against Hizbullah and Hamas: Israel’s Next Hybrid War / Ehud Eilam
The Obama Administration and the Peace Process / Zaki Shalom
Saudi Arabia, US Middle East Policy, and the Consequences of Retrenchment / Robert J. Lieber
The Fight against Daesh: A Challenge for Europe and the Middle East / Didier Reynders
Combating Antisemitism in the European Union / Katharina von Schnurbein
Foreign Policy Cooperation between Croatia and Israel / Miro Kovač
Nepal–Israel Relations: Close Friendship and Future Opportunities / Kamal Thapa
Mordechai Arbell (1929–2016) / Gavriel Strasman
Doomed to Succeed: The US–Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama / Aharon Klieman
Normative Power Europe Meets Israel: Perceptions and Realities / Anders Persson
Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel / Jonathan Rynhold
Abba Eban: A Biography / Meron Medzini
Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman / Noam Kochavi
The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse / David Rodman
Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations: The Importance of Being Sorry / Lior Alperovitch
The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint / Dina Porat
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945 / Moshe Zimmermann
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 1932–1943 / Alexander J. Groth
In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond / Juliana Geran Pilon

Also of Interest

Shofar 34.3 (2016): https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33935

Jewish Social Studies 21.3 (2016): http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jewisocistud.21.issue-3

Jewish Social Studies 22.1 (2016): https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35262

Naharaim: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2016.10.issue-1/issue-files/naha.2016.10.issue-1.xml

Bulletin: Journal ToCs, Israel Studies, Israel Affairs, Constellations

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Aryeh

Journal ToCs:

Israel Studies, 21.3 (2016): https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/34103

Pnina Lahav, “Zivotofsky v. Kerry: The Supreme Court of the United States, the Politics of American Jewry and the Biblical Balaam“
Michael Zank, “The Jerusalem Basic Law (1980) and the Jerusalem Embassy Act (1995): A Comparative Investigation of Israeli and US Legislation on the Status of Jerusalem“
Arye Naor, “Menachem Begin and “Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel”
Ben Herzog, “The American Diaspora in Israel: Intersecting Identity, Ideology and Politics“
Kobi Peled, ““Germany in Jerusalem” The Inauguration of the Augusta Victoria Church and Hospice on the Mount of Olives in 1910“
Ofira Gruweis-Kovalsky, “Between Ideology and Reality: The Right Wing Organizations, the Jerusalem Question, and the Role of Menachem Begin 1948–1949“
Kobi Cohen-Hattab, “Designing Holiness: Architectural Plans for the Design of the Western Wall Plaza After the Six-day War, 1967–1977“
Hila Zaban, “In the Name of Pluralism: Fighting the (Perceived) Ultraorthodox Penetration in the Baka Neighborhood of Jerusalem“
Lior Lehrs, “Jerusalem on the Negotiating Table: Analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks on Jerusalem (1993–2015)“
Anat Zanger, “City and Memory: Jerusalem in Israeli Cinema“
Miriam Fendius Elman, “Jerusalem Studies: The State of the Field“

Israel Affairs 22.3-4 (2016): http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fisa20/22/3-4

Eithan Orkibi, “Israel at the polls 2015: a moment of transformative stability“
Manfred Gerstenfeld, “The run up to Israel’s 2015 elections: a political history“
Nir Atmor & Chen Friedberg, “Who turned out at the polls? Socioeconomic and geographic perspectives on 2015 voter turnouts in Israel“
Dganit Ofek & Assaf Meydani, “A new integrated model of the formation of coalitions: perspectives on the Twentieth Knesset“
Doron Navot & Aviad Rubin, “Likud’s success in the 2015 elections: Netanyahu’s Hobbesian moment“
Udi Lebel & Guy Hatuka, “De-militarization as political self-marginalization: Israeli Labor Party and the MISEs (members of Israeli security elite) 1977–2015“
Nissim Leon, “The covert political ethnicity of the Kulanu party“
Arik Rudnitzky, “Back to the Knesset? Israeli Arab vote in the 20th Knesset elections“
Michal Alon-Tirosh & Dorit Hadar-Shoval, “Leadership and identity politics on the eve of the Israeli 2015 elections: children’s perspectives“
Sharon Haleva-Amir, “Not all about that Facebook: political campaigns and civic engagement in the 2015 elections”
Dana Weimann-Saks, Yaron Ariel, Vered Malka & Ruth Avidar, “Trends in public and media agenda-setting during the 2015 Israeli elections“
Nili Steinfeld, “The F-campaign: a discourse network analysis of party leaders’ campaign statements on Facebook
Mira Moshe, “The enemy within us: emotional politics in the 2015 Israeli elections“
David Kleczewski & Ruth Amossy, “Pragmatic and value-based argumentation in the 2015 Israeli elections“
Rafi Mann, “The Bibi Sitter and the Hipster: the new comical political discourse“
Editorial Board

Constellations 23.3 (2016): Special Section: Israel and Palestine: Thinking the “One State Solution” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.2016.23.issue-3/issuetoc

Uri Ram and Andrew Arato, “Israel and Palestine: Thinking the “One State Solution” (pages 327–328)”
As’ad Ghanem and Dan A. Bavly, “Seeking an Egalitarian State in Palestine/Israel: The Recent Debate about Binationalism (pages 329–339)”
Honaida Ghanim, “Between Two “One-State” Solutions: The Dialectics of Liberation and Defeat in the Palestinian National Enterprise (pages 340–350)“
Raef Zreik, “When Does a Settler Become a Native? (With Apologies to Mamdani) (pages 351–364)”
Amal Jamal, “Conflict Theory, Temporality, and Transformative Temporariness: Lessons from Israel and Palestine (pages 365–377)”

ToC: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (May 2016): Israel’s Influence: Good or Bad for America?

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Aryeh

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
May 2016
Israel’s Influence: Good or Bad for America?

ON THE COVER: Haaretz columnist and keynote speaker Gideon Levy addresses the conference, “Israel’s Influence: Good or Bad for America?”

5 Introduction

6 Welcoming Remarks Dale Sprusansky

7 PANEL 1: Israel’s Influence on Congress and Government Agencies — Moderator Grant F. Smith

7 Ten Ways the Israel Lobby “Moves” America — Grant F. Smith

11 Did Israel Steal U.S. Weapons-Grade Uranium and Did It Have Help From U.S. Citizens? — Dr. Roger Mattson

15 How Congress Shapes Middle East Policy, and How the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Shapes Congress — Prof. Kirk J. Beattie

20 Questions & Answers

22 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: What I Would Tell a Visiting Congressional Delegation — Gideon Levy

27 Questions & Answers

30 PANEL 2: Israel’s Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy — Moderator Dale Sprusansky

30 A Diplomatic and Military Perspective — Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

35 American Neoconservatives: A History and Overview — Jim Lobe

39 Israel and Foreign Policy Issues in the Presidential Campaign — Justin Raimondo

42 Questions & Answers

44 PANEL 3: Responding to Israel’s Influence on Campus and in Court — Moderator Janet McMahon

44 The Birth of Palestine Solidarity Activism at George Mason University — Tareq Radi

49 Concerted Attempts to Silence Criticism of Israel in the U.S. — Maria LaHood

53 Why We’re Suing the U.S. Treasury Department — Susan Abulhawa

57 Holding Israel Accountable for the Gaza Flotilla Raid — Huwaida Arraf

62 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Voices Prohibited by Mainstream Media and Its Role Spreading Islamophobia — Rula Jebreal

66 PANEL 4: Israel’s Influence on Mainstream Media — Moderator Delinda Hanley

66 Mainstream Media Coverage of Israel and Palestine — Philip Weiss

70 “Valentino’s Ghost: Why We Hate Arabs” — Catherine Jordan

72 Questions & Answers

74 CLOSING REMARKS

75 CONCLUSION

78 ELECTION WATCH: Party Loyalty, Party Schmoyalty — Israel Comes First — Janet McMahon

79 Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2016 Congressional Candidates — Compiled by Hugh Galford

ToC: Jewish Film & New Media 4.1 (2016; special issue on genres)

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Aryeh

Jewish Film & New Media

Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2016

SPECIAL ISSUE: GENRES IN JEWISH AND ISRAELI CINEMA

Guest Editors: Yaron Peleg and Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan

Introduction to the Special Issue

Genres in Jewish and Israeli Cinema

pp. 1-2

Yaron Peleg, Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan

Articles

A Body in Every Cellar: The “New Violence” Movement in Israeli Cinema

pp. 4-24

Neta Alexander

Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat: Holocaust Memory, Film Noir, and the Pain of Others

pp. 25-42

Yael Munk

The “New Psyche”: A Model of Different Femininity in Film: Viviane Amsalem, Heroine of the Trilogy by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz

pp. 43-67

Macabit Abramson

Frum with Benefits: Israeli Television, Globalization, and Srugim’s American Appeal

pp. 68-89

Shayna Weiss

Adapting Masculinities: Israeli and American Genres Redefining Mizrahi Masculinity in the TV Series Haborer

pp. 90-108

Ronen Gil

DIY: How to (Not So) Safely Dismantle the Bomb of On-Screen Jewish-Israeli Identity: The Synergies with Art and Television in the Representation of Jewish-Israeli Identity and What Can Be Learned from Them

pp. 109-138

Lee Weinberg

ToC: Israel Affairs 22.2 (2016)

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Aryeh

Israel Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2016 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles
Writing Jewish history
David Vital
Pages: 257-269 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140346

How do states die: lessons for Israel
Steven R. David
Pages: 270-290 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140358Towards a biblical psychology for modern Israel: 10 guides for healthy living
Kalman J. Kaplan
Pages: 291-317 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140349

The past as a yardstick: Europeans, Muslim migrants and the onus of European-Jewish histories
Amikam Nachmani
Pages: 318-354 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140355

The mental cleavage of Israeli politics
Eyal Lewin
Pages: 355-378 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140352

Framing policy paradigms: population dispersal and the Gaza withdrawal
Matt Evans
Pages: 379-400 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140353

National party strategies in local elections: a theory and some evidence from the Israeli case
David Nachmias, Maoz Rosenthal & Hani Zubida
Pages: 401-422 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140356

‘I have two homelands’: constructing and managing Iranian Jewish and Persian Israeli identities
Rusi Jaspal
Pages: 423-443 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140348

Avoiding longing: the case of ‘hidden children’ in the Holocaust
Galiya Rabinovitch & Efrat Kass
Pages: 444-458 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140350

‘Are you being served?’ The Jewish Agency and the absorption of Ethiopian immigration |
Adi Binhas
Pages: 459-478 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140345

The danger of Israel according to Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi
Shaul Bartal
Pages: 479-491 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140343

Leisure in the twenty-first century: the case of Israel
Nitza Davidovitch & Dan Soen
Pages: 492-511 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140347

Limits to cooperation: why Israel does not want to become a member of the International Energy Agency
Elai Rettig
Pages: 512-527 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140357

The attitude of the local press to marginal groups: between solidarity and alienation
Smadar Ben-Asher & Ella Ben-Atar
Pages: 528-548 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140344

The construction of Israeli ‘masculinity’ in the sports arena
Moshe Levy, Einat Hollander & Smadar Noy-Canyon
Pages: 549-567 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140351
Book Reviews
From empathy to denial: Arab responses to the Holocaust
Alice A. Butler-Smith
Pages: 568-570 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140354

Holocaust images and picturing catastrophe: the cultural politics of seeing
Alice A. Butler-Smith
Pages: 570-572 | DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2016.1140342s