MER Article Peleg, Israeli Culture Between the Two Intifadas Yaron Peleg, Israeli Culture Between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008). Rebecca L. Stein • 4 min read
MER Article Pappe Faces Down Prosecution On May 19, 2002, Ilan Pappé received word that an order for him to stand trial at Haifa University, where he teaches political science, had been rescinded. The prosecution, represented by Haifa’s dean of humanities, had demanded Pappé’s expulsion from the university due to positions he has taken on Rebecca L. Stein • 2 min read
MER Article Spatial Fantasies Rivka, the tragic protagonist of Amos Gitai's new film Kadosh, is unable to conceive a child. Her anxiety is acute. The ultra-Orthodox community of Me'ah She'arim in West Jerusalem, in which Rivka lives with her husband Meir, is known to ostracize its barren women. Seeking spiritual guidance, she le Rebecca L. Stein • 10 min read
MER Article From Schmaltz to Sacrilege Yaron Ezrahi, Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997). Rebecca L. Stein • 8 min read
MER Article The Limits of Revisionist Imagination Michael Shalev, Labor and the Political Economy in Israel (Oxford, 1992). Anita Shapira, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (Oxford, 1992). Benny Morris, Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War (Clarendon Press, Rebecca L. Stein • 6 min read
MER Article Itineraries of Peace In Near East Travel’s East Jerusalem office, a satellite photograph of the Middle East is framed under glass, inscribed with the names of countries and major cities. National borders are unmarked. The Holy Land -- so the map is labeled -- appears as a single, seamless territory. A full-page adverti Rebecca L. Stein • 12 min read
MER Article Friedman, Zealots for Zion Robert I. Friedman, Zealots for Zion (Random House, 1992). Palestinians and Israeli leftists shared high hopes at the time of Yitzhak Rabin’s inauguration, but optimism quickly began to fade. Robert Friedman’s new book, published shortly after Rabin took office, participates in that early, post-Lik Rebecca L. Stein • 4 min read
