Normal view
MARC view
The Israelis : ordinary people in an extraordinary land / Donna Rosenthal.
Publication details: New York : Free Press, 2005, c2003.Edition: 1st Free Press trade pbk. edDescription: xi, 466 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0743270355 (pbk.)
- 0684869721 (hc)
- 068486973X (pbk.)
- DS113.3 .R67 2003
- DS113.3 .R67 2005
Contents:
Introduction: Colliding worlds -- I. Becoming Israeli -- One of the world's most volatile neighborhoods -- Dating and mating Iraeli-style -- A people's army -- Swords into stock shares -- II. One nation, many tribes -- The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" -- The Mizrahim: the other Israelis -- The Russians: the new exodus -- Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the promised land -- III. Widening fault lines between Jews and Jews -- The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish -- The Orthodox: this land is your land? This land is my land! -- The non-Orthodox: war of the cheeseburgers --IV. Schizophrenia: non-Jews in Jewish state -- The Muslims: Abraham's other children -- The Bedouin: tribes, tents and satellite dishes -- The Druze: between modernity and tradition -- The Christians: uneasy in the land of Jesus -- V. The Sexual revolution -- Marriage, polygamy, adultery, and divorce Israeli-style -- Oy! Gay? -- Hookers and hash in the Holy Land -- Epilogue -- Shalom/Salam.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-449) and index.
Introduction: Colliding worlds -- I. Becoming Israeli -- One of the world's most volatile neighborhoods -- Dating and mating Iraeli-style -- A people's army -- Swords into stock shares -- II. One nation, many tribes -- The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" -- The Mizrahim: the other Israelis -- The Russians: the new exodus -- Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the promised land -- III. Widening fault lines between Jews and Jews -- The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish -- The Orthodox: this land is your land? This land is my land! -- The non-Orthodox: war of the cheeseburgers --IV. Schizophrenia: non-Jews in Jewish state -- The Muslims: Abraham's other children -- The Bedouin: tribes, tents and satellite dishes -- The Druze: between modernity and tradition -- The Christians: uneasy in the land of Jesus -- V. The Sexual revolution -- Marriage, polygamy, adultery, and divorce Israeli-style -- Oy! Gay? -- Hookers and hash in the Holy Land -- Epilogue -- Shalom/Salam.
In memory of Sarah Betsy Fuller.
Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2003.
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