Israel Studies Review
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Aims & Scope
Editor: Yoram Peri, Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Israel Studies Forum is relaunched in 2011 as the Israel Studies Review, under the editorship of Yoram Peri, Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
The Israel Studies Review (ISR) is the journal of the Association for Israel Studies, an international and interdisciplinary scholarly organization dedicated to the study of all aspects of Israeli society, history, politics, and culture.
ISR explores modern and contemporary Israel from the perspective of the social sciences, history, the humanities, and cultural studies and welcomes submissions on these subjects. The journal also pays close attention to the relationships of Israel to the Middle East and to the wider world, and encourages scholarly articles with this broader theoretical or comparative approach provided the focus remains on modern Israel.
One of the main tasks of the ISR is to review in a timely manner recent books on Israel-related themes, published in English and Hebrew. Authors and publishers are invited to send us their books for review consideration.
The Israel Studies Review editors fully recognize the passions and controversies present in this field. They are dedicated to the mission of the ISR as a non-partisan journal publishing scholarship of the highest quality, and are proud to contribute to the growth and development of the emergent field of Israel Studies.
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Subjects: Israel Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Politics
Forthcoming Issue
Volume 26 • Issue 2 • 2011
EDITORS' NOTE
FORUM: Israeli Immigration/Emigration
When Scholarship Disturbs Narrative: Ian Lustick on Israel's Migration Balance
Comments by Sergio DellaPergola
Leaving the Villa and Touching a Raw Nerve
Response by Ian Lustick
SPECIAL ARTICLE
The Cultural Crisis of Contemporary Israel: A Jewish Theological Perspective on its Causes
Admiel Kosman
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN ISRAEL
The Sociology of Military Knowledge in the IDF: From “Forging” to “Deciphering”
Zeev Lerer and Sarit Amram Katz
From the Military as a Gendered Organization to Militarized Inequality Regimes: Research on Gender and the Military
Orna Sasson-Levy
RESEARCH NOTE
Looking Out From the Tent: Internal Social Research at the IDF
Research note by Yehudith Sher and Hadass Ben-Eliyahu
ARTICLES
Of Other Cinematic Spaces: Urban Zionism in Early Hebrew Cinema
Hizky Shoham
The Critical Role of Prenegotiations in Ethno-national Conflicts: Cyprus and the “Annapolis Process”
Amira Schiff
REVIEW ESSAY
Anthropology in Israel
Calvin Goldscheider
BOOK REVIEWS
Menachem Mautner, Law and the Culture of Israel
Review by Gad Barzilai
Nadav G. Shelef, Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity and Religion in Israel
Review by Ilan Peleg
Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff, eds., Boundaries of Jewish Identity
Review by Kirsten Fermaglich
Arieh Bruce Saposnik, Becoming Hebrew: The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine
Review by Nina S. Spiegel
King Abdullah II., Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
Review by Saliba Sarsar
Leslie Stein, The Making of Modern Israel
Review by Pierre M. Atlas
Joyce Dalsheim, Unsettling Gaza: Secular Liberalism, Radical Religion, and the Israeli Settlement Project
Review by Myron J. Aronoff
Beverley Milton-Edwards, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Review by Rafael Cohen-Almagor