This book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and
originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his …

Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight.
This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different …

A unique Israeli national culture—indeed, the very nature of" Israeliness"—remains a matter
of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills …

Describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social
movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. Gush Emunim …

The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which
the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers …

Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts
and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor …

The article explores the meaning of the terms home, identity, and belonging for Israeli and
Japanese immigrants to Canada. It also investigates identity formation, management, and …

Focusing upon donations to monasteries in the medieval Western world, this paper expands
upon extant discussions of religious gift-giving in the 'great traditions', and of its relation to …

We consider single-round two prover proof systems, as introduced by Ben-Or et ai.[9]. In
these proof systems, V generates a pair of questions(ql, qz) based on the input z and his …

This study examines conditions of peace and war to find whether the “rallyround the flag”
effect is indeed attributed to rising levels of social collectivism. Reserve service motivation in …