Jews in Israel : contemporary social and cultural patterns / Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE IN ISRAEL -- Major trends in the development of Israeli Jews: a synthesis of the last century / Uzi Rebhun -- Demography in Israel at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Sergio DellaPergola -- PART II: IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ADAPTATION -- Jewish ethnicity in Israel: symbolic or real? / Sammy Smooha -- The soviet immigrant community in Israel / Elazar Leshem, Moshe Sicron -- Ethiopian Jews in Israel: a part of the people or apart from the people? / Steven Kaplan, Hagar Salamon -- PART III: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL ORIENTATION -- The Kibbutz's transformation: who leads it and where? / Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Menachem Topel -- Elections and voting patterns / Asher Arian -- Women in Israeli society / Hanna Herzog -- Religion in the Israeli public square / Chaim I. Waxman -- PART IV: MANIFESTATIONS OF JEWISH IDENTITY -- Judaism in Israeli culture / Eliezer Schweid -- The many faces of Jewishness in Israel / Shlomit Levy ... [et al.] -- The Israel reform and conservative movements and the market for liberal Judaism / Ephraim Tabory -- The quest for spirituality among secular Israelis / Elan Ezrachi -- PART V: CIVIL COMMITMENT AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- Civil-military relations in Israel at the outset of the twenty-first century / Gabriel Ben-Dor, Ami Pedahzur -- The cleavage between Jewish and Arab Israeli citizens / Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Ze'ev Shavit -- The sanctification of space in Israel: civil religion and folk Judaism / Yoram Bilu -- History, memory, and identity: perceptions of the Holocaust in Israel / Dalia Ofer -- PART IV: ISRAEL AND DIASPORA JEWS -- The Israelis and the Jewish Diaspora / Gabriel Sheffer -- The emigration of Jewish Israelis / Steven Gold -- PART VII: CONCLUSION -- Challenges for the twenty-first century / Uzi Rebhun, Chaim I. Waxman.

Systematically explores the challenges and contradictions of Israel as a modern, heterogeneous society. Focusing on the behaviors of people, rather than institutions and organizations, its approach is largely interdisciplinary, with an overiding sociological perspective.