A combination of probing analysis and memoir describes Israel's transformation from a society held together by national liberation to a liberal democracy that must make room for individual Israelis, providing an insightful look at the politics, family, and community of a misunderstood nation.

Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel

History

Ezrahi, Yaron

Americas

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Among commentators on Israeli affairs, Yaron Ezrahi is distinguished by his analytical brilliance, his twin passions for Jewish traditions and the tradition of liberal democracy, and his ability to see behind current events to their causes, some of them three generations in the making, some three millennia. Here he offers an uncommonly insightful analysis of the ways that history, politics, and the national character of Israel come to bear on current affairs there. Ezrahi regards surprising and divisive events—such as the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Benjamin Netanyahu's defeat of Shimon Peres in the subsequent ministerial election—as signs of an ongoing, fundamental conflict in Israeli society. He explores ways in which the conflict is felt in diverse aspects of Israeli life and culture, from the social dimensions of military service and the development of the modern Hebrew language to Israelis' attitudes toward nature and the status of women. In chapters that blend probing analysis with stirring memoir, Ezrahi tells the story of Israel's transformation from a defensive, embattled society held together by a myth of national liberation to a prosperous liberal society that must make room for the many different stories of individual Israelis.

Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Isræl

Middle East

University of California Press

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The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Harvard University Press

This catalog was published in conjunction with a 1998-99 exhibition of the same name at the Jewish Museum of New York, organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of Israel. The introduction and two contributed essays discuss art in Israel today, in particular a change in culture that is particularly evident since the death of Prime Minister Rabin in 1995. Thirty-five plates display art works by as many artists. Brief bios with photos of the artists are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

After Rabin: New Art from Israel

Arts & Photography

Jewish Museum (New York, N. Y.)

Goodman, Susan Tumarkin

Baruch, Adam

Tamir, Tali

History & Criticism

Jewish Museum

Can Democracy Recover?: The Roots of a Crisis

"Responding to growing public anxiety about the current state of democracy, this book will appeal to scholars in political theory, history and anthropology, as well as to the wider educated public. It provides an analysis of changes in the deep structure of Western democracy offering new imaginaries of political order"--

Cambridge University Press

This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the past, political authority was grounded in fictions such as the divine right of kings, the laws of nature, historical determinism, and scientism, today the space of democratic politics is filled with multiple alternative social imaginaries of the desirable political order. Exposure to electronic mass media has made contemporary democratic publics more aware that credible popular fictions have greater impact on shaping our political realities than do rational social choices or moral arguments. The pressing political question in contemporary democracy is, therefore, how to select and enact political fictions that promote peace, not violence, and how to found the political order on checks and balances between alternative political imaginaries of freedom and justice.

Imagined Democracies: Necessary Political Fictions

Literature & Fiction

This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the past, political authority was grounded in fictions such as the divine right of kings, the laws of nature, historical determinism, and scientism, today the space of democratic politics is filled with multiple alternative social imaginaries of the desirable political order. Exposure to electronic mass media has made contemporary democratic publics more aware that credible popular fictions have greater impact on shaping our political realities than do rational social choices or moral arguments. The pressing political question in contemporary democracy is, therefore, how to select and enact political fictions that promote peace, not violence, and how to found the political order on checks and balances between alternative political imaginaries of freedom and justice.

Imagined Democracies

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Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel

Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Isræl

The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy

After Rabin: New Art from Israel

Can Democracy Recover?: The Roots of a Crisis

Can Democracy Recover?: The Roots of a Crisis

Imagined Democracies: Necessary Political Fictions

Imagined Democracies