Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table Of Contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Contents -- An Introduction to Research on Israel's First Decade -- POLITICS IN THE NEW STATE -- Israel's First Decade: Building a Civic State -- The Structural Foundation for Religio-Political Accommodation in Israel: Fallacy and Reality -- The Road Not Taken: Constitutional Non-Decision Making in 1948-1950 and Its Impact on Civil Liberties in the Israeli Political Culture -- New Challenges to New Authority: Israeli Grassroots Activism in the 1950s -- POLITICAL THOUGHT: PROPENSITIES AND ALTERNATIVES -- The "Utopian Leap" in David Ben-Gurion's Social Thought, 1920-1958 -- Sharett's "Line", Struggles, and Legacy -- Political Religion in a New State: Ben-Gurion's Mamlachtiyut -- POLITICS OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Mapai and the "Kastner Trial" -- The Commander of the "Yizkor" Order: Herut, Holocaust, and Survivors -- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS -- The Economic Regime during Israel's First Decade -- The Crisis in the Kibbutz Movement, 1949-1961 -- The Kibbutz in the 1950s -- A Transformation of Identity -- The Contribution of the Labor Economy to Immigrant Absorption and Population Dispersalduring Israel's First Decade -- The Contribution of the Labor Economy to Immigrant Absorption and Population Dispersal during Israel's First Decade -- Israeli Nationalism and Socialismbefore and after 1948 -- LITERATURE AND POPULAR IMAGES -- The Fiction of the "Generation in the Land" -- Israeli Literature as an Emerging National Literature -- War and Religiosity:The Sinai Campaign in Public Thought -- Early Social Survey Research in and on Israel -- PHYSICAL PLANNING AND SETTLEMENT POLICY -- The Transfer to Jewish Control of Abandoned Arab Lands during the War of Independence.

New Departures in Zionist Planning: The Development Town -- Planning, Housing, and Land Policy 1948-1952: The Formation of Concepts and Governmental Frameworks -- Creating Homogeneous Space: The Evolution of Israel's Regional Councils -- IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATION -- Styles of Ethnic Adaptation: Interpreting Iraqi and Moroccan Settlement in Israel -- Mapam and the European and Oriental Immigrations -- The Silent Partner: Holocaust Survivors in the IDF -- THE ARMY -- The Civilian Components of Israel's Security Doctrine: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in the First Decade -- Utopia in Uniform -- THE ARAB MINORITY -- An Uneasy Coexistence: Arabs and Jews in the First Decade of Statehood -- Crime and Law Enforcement in the Israeli Arab Population under the Military Government, 1948-1966 -- ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA -- The Zionist Movement and the State of Israel, 1948-1952: A Formation of Normal Interre1ations* -- Philanthropy and Politics: Modes of Interaction between Israel and the Diaspora -- Defining Relationships: The Joint Distribution Committee and Israel, 1948-1950 -- American Jewry and Israel:The First Decade and Its Implications for Today -- American Jewry and Israel: The First Decade and Its Implications for Today -- Back Matter -- INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- Back Cover.