Israel Studies. Volume 5, Number I, Spring 2000. Special Issue: The Americanization of Israel.

Octavo, paper covers, xii, 372 pp., b/w photos, ads. Introduction by Abramson. Articles are "An Attempt to Americanize the Yishuv: Judah L. Magnes in the Mandatory Period," Daniel P. Kotzin, "California Dreaming: Adapting the "California Model" to the Citrus Industry in Palestine 1917-1939," Nahum Karlinsky, "The Golden Arches of McDonald's: On the Americanization" of Israel," Maoz Azaryahu, "The "Americanization of Israel: A Demographic, Cultural and Political Evaluation," Uzi Rebhun and Chaim I. Waxman, "The Americanization of Israeli Politics and the Realignment of the Party System," Myron J. Aronoff, "Israeli Activism American-Style: Civil Liberties, Environmental and Peace Organizations asPressure Groups for Social Change, 1970s-1990s," Michael M. Laskier, "Likud and the Christian Dispensationalists: A Symbiotic Relationship," Ephraim Tabory, "A Portion on Animosity: The Politics of the Disestablishment of Religion in Israel," Martin Edelman, "The Americanization of Israeli Education," Walter Ackerman, "Inniut ad Kooliut: Trends in Israeli Narrative Literature, 1995-1999," Mira Kubovy, "From 'The madwoman in the Attic' to 'The Women's Room': The American Roots of Israeli Literary Feminism," Yael S. Feldman, "American Literature and Israeli Culture: The Case of the Canaanites," Dan Laor, "Frontier Myths and Their Applications in America and Israel: A Transnational Perspective," I. Ilan Troen, "'And never the twain shall meet'? Reflections on the Americanization of Israeli Culture," James S. Diamond, "Separate and Unequal," Boaz Evron. Review Essays.…