VISION AND CHANGE IN INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Transformation from Science to Commercialization

“This book is a pleasure to read. It is a highly unusual ethnography that provides a window into an institutional space (nuclear research) that is virtually invisible to the public eye. Given the obvious security issues involved, it is even more remarkable that the work was done. The ethnography itself is brilliantly written, showing ‘Gamma’ during a major transition in organizational ethics and activities.”  •  Benson Honig, Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, MacMaster University

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CARING FOR THE 'HOLY LAND'

Filipina Domestic Workers in

Israel

The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the ‘Holy Land’ for the predominantly devout Christian Filipina women and is at the center of an often violent conflict, which affects Filipinos in many ways. The author provides a more nuanced account and shows how Filipina caregivers in Israel have succeeded in creating their own collective spaces, as well as negotiating rights and belonging.

DYNAMIC BELONGING

Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities

While research in Israel on Judaism has stressed orthodox or “extreme” versions of religiosity, linked to institutional life and politics, moderate and less systematized expressions of Jewish belonging are overlooked. An important contribution to scholarship on contemporary Jewry, this volume reveals the often unrecognized dynamism in new forms of Jewish identification and affiliation in Israel and in the Diaspora.

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HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Resettlement, Memories,

Identities

“…an important contribution to the evolving field of research on Jewish life in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Almost every chapter introduces new research on unexamined areas of postwar Jewish history… By framing the study in a broad comparative manner, the book is one of the first of its kind and will make for essential reading in the field.”  •  Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford

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DIAMONDS AND WAR

State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

“The book will be useful for any collection devoted to industrial development, labor relations, and the social history of state-building in mandatory Palestine, and will be an essential reference book on how the Israeli diamond industry became established."  • Israel Studies Review

STATE PRACTICES AND ZIONIST IMAGES

Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel

"This is a book by an Israeli anthropologist of major importance. Wesley shows how these policies were implemented in such a way that the Jewish population benefited and the Arabs did not.[The author], appalled by the systematic discriminatory results of state practices, takes a moral stand, but allows the reader to draw his own conclusions."  •  Shofar

SETTLING FOR LESS

The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev

Bedouin

"This is an excellent study of an important and timely topic that is of relevance not only for the people involved but for the wider areas of Israel and the Arab world. It is a comprehensive detailed description and analysis of a process of change and transformation that started in 1948 and continues until the present."  •  Donald AbdAllah Cole, The American University in Cairo

THE MEN WE LOVED

Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture

"Against conventional popular and academic views, the author interprets friendship as a unique social form bordering the personal and political, the intimate and the collective, and the secular and the sacred. This fascinating and original volume argues for the central symbolic role of male friendships in constructing an Israeli national identity. This important book deserves a wide audience".   •  Steven Seidman, SUNY University at Albany

KIN, GENE, COMMUNITY

Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations.

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Israel Studies Review

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Volume 26, Issue 1

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.

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