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Product Identifiers
PublisherFree Press
ISBN-100684869721
ISBN-139780684869728
eBay Product ID (ePID)2415250
Product Key Features
Book TitleIsraelis : Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSociology / General, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Judaism / Orthodox
Publication Year2003
GenreReligion, Social Science, History
AuthorDonna Rosenthal
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight23.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-049229
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal956.94
Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Colliding Worlds I Becoming Israeli1. One of the World's Most Volatile Neighborhoods 2. Dating and Mating Israeli-style 3. A People's Army 4. Swords into Stock Shares II One Nation, Many Tribes5. The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" 6. The Mizrahim: The Other Israelis 7. The Russians: The New Exodus 8. Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the Promised Land III Widening Fault Lines Between Jews and Jews9. The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish 10. The Orthodox: This Land Is Your Land? This Land Is My Land! 11. The Non-Orthodox: War of the Cheeseburgers IV Schizophrenia: Non-Jews in a Jewish State12. The Muslims: Abraham's Other Children 13. The Bedouin: Tribes, Tents, and Satellite Dishes 14. The Druze: Between Modernity and Tradition 15. The Christians: Uneasy in the Land of Jesus V The Sexual Revolution16. Marriage, Polygamy, Adultery, and Divorce Israeli-style 17. Oy! Gay? 18. Hookers and Hash in the Holy Land Epilogue: Shalom/SalamNotes Bibliography Index