Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Content -- Part I: Literature and Language -- Rewriting the Holocaust: An Israeli Case Study in the Sociology of the Novel -- Espionage and Cultural Mediation -- An Authentic Human Voice: The Poetry of Amnon Shamosh -- On The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew -- Part II: Culture and Society:Gender, Ethnicity, Community -- Does Gender Matter? -- Studies on Ethnicity -- The Search for Israeliness: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary Mainstream -- Part III: Social Analysis -- From Apparatus to Populus: The Political Sociology of Yonathan Shapiro -- Governing in a Turbulent National Policy Environment -- Part IV: History and Politics -- The Significance of Israeli Historical Revisionism -- The Utopian Crisis of the Israeli State -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Victory of Otherness -- The Intercommunal Dimension in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Intifada -- Back Matter -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- Back Cover.