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Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has their version, The New York Times theirs. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied, and they have been brought together here in one of the most original books about Israel in decades. From battlefields to bedrooms to boardrooms, discover the colliding worlds in which an astounding mix of 7.2 million devoutly traditional and radically modern people live. You'll meet "Arab Jews" who fled Islamic countries, dreadlock-wearing Ethiopian immigrants who sing reggae in Hebrew, Christians in Nazareth who publish an Arabic-style Cosmo, young Israeli Muslims who know more about Judaism than most Jews of the Diaspora, ultra-Orthodox Jews on "Modesty Patrols," and more. Interweaving hundreds of personal stories with intriguing new research, The Israelis is lively, irreverent, and always fascinating.
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About the Author

Donna Rosenthal has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Th
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Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Colliding Worlds

I Becoming Israeli

1. 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 Tribes

5. 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 Jews

9. 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 State

12. 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 Revolution

16. Marriage, Polygamy, Adultery, and Divorce Israeli-style

17. Oy! Gay?

18. Hookers and Hash in the Holy Land

Epilogue: Shalom/Salam

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780743270359
Subtitle:
Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008)
Author:
Rosenthal, Donna
Author:
Ros
Author:
enthal, Donna
Publisher:
Free Press
Subject:
Middle East - Israel
Subject:
Israel
Subject:
Jewish studies
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - General
Subject:
General Current Events
Subject:
Sociology-Jewish Studies
Copyright:
2005
Edition Description:
B102
Publication Date:
February 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
480
Dimensions:
8.44 x 5.5 in 15.47 oz
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