Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics, and Culture: Books on Israel, Volume II

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Asher Arlan is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Professor of Political Science at Haifa University. He is the author of several books. including Ideological Change in Israel and The Choosing People: Voting Behavior in Israel and Politics in Israel. Myron J. Aronoffis Professor ofAnthropology and Political Science and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is author of Frontiertown: The Politics of Community Building in Israel. Power and Ritual in the Israel Labor Party. and the recently published Israeli Visions and Divisions (Transaction Books. 1989). He has edited six books including Cross-currents in Israeli Culture and Politics. Kevin Avruch is a Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University in Virginia. recipient of the 1988 Distinguished Faculty Award. He is the author of American 202 Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics. and Culture Immigrants in Israel: Social Identities and Change and has served as Book Review Editor for the Anthropological Quarterly since 1986. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Morocco and Israel. and has published in the fields of international migration. politics. religion. ethnic studies. conflict resolution. and the histoty of anthropology. Uri Ben-Eliezer is a political sociologist at Tel-Aviv University and spent the last two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University and at the University ofWashington. He is completing a book on the origins ofIsraeli militarism. He is the co-author ofElements ofSociology (Hebrew. Am-Oved Publishers. 1986.) His most recent works include "In Uniform /Without Uniform: Militarism as an Ideology in the Decade Preceding Statehood." (Studies in Zionism. volume 9 number 2. 1988); "The Politicization of Israeli Youth Movements during the Forties," (M. Naor. ed. Israeli Youth Movements 1920-1960. Ben-Zvi Publishers. 1989). Steven Heydemann received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in the summer of 1990, where he wrote a dissertation on "The Political Economy of Populist-Authoritarianism: Syria in Comparative Perspective ." He is currently Staff Associate at the Social Science Research Council in New York. with responsibility for the Committee on the Near and Middle East and the Committee on International Peace and Security. From 1983-1984 he served as Director ofPrograms and Research at the Middle East Institute in Washington. Eve Jacobson is ajournalist and essayist who writes widely on Middle Eastern affairs and Israeli literature. She is the editor of The Women's American ORT Reporter. Tamar Katriel teaches in the School of Education of Haifa University. She is the author ofTalking Straight (Cambridge University Press. 1986); and of Communal Webs: Communi- About the Contributors 203 cation, Culture and Enculturation in Contemporary Israel (forthcoming). Dan Peleg is professor and head of the Department of Government and law at Lafayette College in Easton. PA. He is the author of Begin's Foreign Policy, 1977-1983: Israel's Move to the Right (1987) and is currently working on a book on CampDavid: Diplomacy as Drama (with A. Paul How and David Noveh) and another on Civil and HumanRights on the West Bank and in Gaza. Dr. Peleg has also written numerous articles on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and on other aspects of International Politics. Stewart Reiser teaches Middle Eastern politics at Harvard University and is a faculty associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. His most recent publication is The Israeli Arms Industry: Foreign Policy. Arms Transjers, andMilitary Doctrine ojaSmall State (NewYork: Holmes and Meier. 1989). He is also author ofseveral articles on Israeli politics and foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Elie Rekhess is a Senior Research Associate at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel-Aviv University . From 1988 to 1990he has been a visiting scholar at the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University. He is the author ofBetween CommunismandArabNationalism: The Israeli Communist Party and the Arabs (Hebrew). to be published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad. Gershon Shafir completed his undergraduate degree at Tel Aviv University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His book Land, Labor, and the Origins oj the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 was published in 1989 by Cambridge University Press. Between 1980 and 1985 he taught at Tel Aviv University; currently. he is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California. San Diego. 204 Critical Essays on Israeli...