TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenthal,Donna
TI  - The Israelis: ordinary people in an extraordinary land 
SN  - 0743270355 (pbk.)
AV  - DS113.3 .R67 2003
PY  - 2005///, c2003
CY  - New York
PB  - Free Press
KW  - National characteristics, Israeli
KW  - Israel
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Orthodox Judaism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Nontraditional Jews
N1  - Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2003; 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
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