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Author Rosenthal, Donna.

Title The Israelis : ordinary people in an extraordinary land / Donna Rosenthal.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  956.94 ROS    Storage
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  956.94 R72I    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  956.94 ROSENTHAL    Check Shelf
Description xi, 466 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-449) and index.
Contents Introduction Colliding worlds -- I -- Becoming Israeli -- One of the world's most volatile neighborhoods -- Dating and mating Iraeli-style -- A People's army -- Swords into stock shares -- II One nation, many tribes -- The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" -- The Mizrahim: the other Israelis -- The Russians: the new exodus -- Out of Africa: Ethipian Israelis in the promised land -- III Widening fault lines between Jews and Jews -- The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish -- The Orthodox: this land is your land? This land is my land! -- The Non-Orthodox: war of the cheeseburgers -- IV Schizophrenia: non-Jews in Jewish state -- The Muslims: Abraham's other children -- The Bedouins: tribes, tents and satellite dishes -- The Druze: between modernity and tradition -- The Christians: uneasy in the land of Jesus -- V The Sexual revolution -- Marriage, polygamy, adultery, and divorce Israeli-style -- Oy! Gay? -- Hookers and hash in the Holy Land -- Epilogue -- t Shalom/Salam.
Subject National characteristics, Israeli.
Orthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Nontraditional Jews.
Israel -- Social conditions.
Israel -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN 0684869721 hardcover
068486973X paperback
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