Israeli Identity: Between Orient and Occident

by David Tal

For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membership of Israeli/Jewish society as it then existed was soon altered with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants from Middle Eastern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415820219
• ISBN13: 9780415820219
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"