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Michael Keren
This book details on the important segment of Jewish society, focusing on the role of intellectuals in the formation and growth of the state of Israel. It examines the relationship…
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Michael Keren,Shlomit Keren
This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of…
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Based on Shimon Peres’s private papers, investigates the role of professionals–attorneys, strategic experts, and economists–in Israel’s national unity government of 1984-1986 and assesses their impact on government policy.
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Examining the web logs, or blogs, of individuals from a variety of continents and cultures, this book highlights the nature of ‘blogosphere,’ the virtual public arena of the early 21st…
Shows how insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the millennium can be derived from…
This study looks at the problems created by international intervention, and the sovereignty versus responsibility dilemma, which lies at the core of the emerging international order.
Online discourse has created a new media environment forcontributions to public life, one that challenges the socialsignificance of the role of public intellectuals-intellectualswho, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer…
Presents a collection of essays that investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. This work explores…
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While investigating endangered languages, many researchers become interested in developing literacy for these languages. However, often their linguistic training has not provided practical guidance in this area. This book, with…
This volume offers an interdisciplinary re-thinking about what it means to be "the marginal" within society. Using a supple notion of liminality as its framework, this book concurrently challenges Turner's…
