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Understanding Non-State Actors

How Rebels Acquire Their Weapons

By: Eran Zohar

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Understanding Non-State Actors

How Rebels Acquire Their Weapons

By: Eran Zohar

Understanding Non-State Actors aims to reduce the scarcity of academic literature on armed non-state actors (NSAs) that have always been a part of world politics and wars. This monograph offers, possibly for the first time, a systematic historical review as well as a substantive theory of NSAs and their arming efforts. From the Jewish rebellions against Rome to the war between the Ukrainian separatists and the Ukrainian government, NSAs’ weapons acquisition has been vital for the build-up of their force, enabling both the employment of that force and its sustainability. While weapons are not necessarily the most important factor in military build-up, NSAs need weapons to fight, and revolts usually erupt after the organizers have acquired a certain number of weapons. Conversely, many revolts lose momentum and operations are not carried out, or turn ineffective, due to shortages of arms and ammunition. A major theme of this monograph is that in spite of dramatic political and technological changes, armed NSAs in different periods have employed similar methods to acquire weapons. Self-production, looting and stealing, external support, and the arms trade were always the major ways for NSAs to acquire weapons, though the importance of each method and the type of arms has changed remarkably over time. Understanding Non-State Actors discusses the factors – political, social, cultural, technological, and organizational – that have both facilitated and constrained the ability of NSAs to acquire arms. Especially, lecturers and students of Military, Terrorism, Conflict studies, War and peace studies will benefit from this study.

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Understanding Non-State Actors

How Rebels Acquire Their Weapons

By: Eran Zohar

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How Rebels Acquire Their Weapons

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Projecting the Nation

History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

By: Eran Kaplan

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Projecting the Nation

History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

By: Eran Kaplan

Pioneers, fighters and immigrants -- Looking inward -- Present absentees -- The post-Zionist condition -- The post-political turn in Israeli cinema -- Eros on the Israeli screen -- In the image of the divine -- Epilogue. Big screens, small screens.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978813384

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Freud in Zion

Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

By: Eran J. Rolnik

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Freud in Zion

Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

By: Eran J. Rolnik

Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building. Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated popular and intellectual discourse in the emerging Jewish state.

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Routledge

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0429914008

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9780429914003

Beyond Post-Zionism

By: Eran Kaplan

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Beyond Post-Zionism

By: Eran Kaplan

Post-Zionism emerged as an intellectual and cultural movement in the late 1980s when a growing number of people inside and outside academia felt that Zionism, as a political ideology, had outlived its usefulness. The post-Zionist critique attempted to expose the core tenets of Zionist ideology and the way this ideology was used, to justify a series of violent or unjust actions by the Zionist movement, making the ideology of Zionism obsolete. In Beyond Post-Zionism Eran Kaplan explores how this critique emerged from the important social and economic changes Israel had undergone in previous decades, primarily the transition from collectivism to individualism and from socialism to the free market. Kaplan looks critically at some of the key post-Zionist arguments (the orientalist and colonial nature of Zionism) and analyzes the impact of post-Zionist thought on various aspects (literary, cinematic) of Israeli culture. He also explores what might emerge, after the political and social turmoil of the last decade, as an alternative to post-Zionism and as a definition of Israeli and Zionist political thought in the twenty-first century.

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State University of New York Press

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1438454376

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

By: Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110200937

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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel

Building Social Pragmatism

By: Eran Neuman

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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel

Building Social Pragmatism

By: Eran Neuman

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A graduate of the Bauhaus, Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There, he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department, where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan, it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s, Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions, including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture, when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son, Eldar Sharon, joined the office in 1964. Thus, the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall. This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture, modern architecture, Israel studies, Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003800777

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9781003800774

Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust

By: Eran Neuman

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Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust

By: Eran Neuman

Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical case in a contemporary context and integrates the historical into actuality. By examining several cases, the book defines the issues faced by various architects who dealt with this topic and discusses their separate and distinctive approaches. In each case, it analyses the ways in which the cultural and political contexts of commemoration led to a different interpretation of the condition. Focusing on the Ghetto Fighters’ House, the world’s first Holocaust museum; Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem; the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the book discusses how the representation of history by architecture creates a dialectic process in which architecture mediates the past to the present, while at the same time creating a present saturated with historical contexts. It shows how, together, they are incorporated into one another and create a new reality: past and present intertwined.

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Routledge

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1317055233

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Projecting the Nation

History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

By: Eran Kaplan

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History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

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Rutgers University Press

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Book's by Eran Zohar

Understanding Non-State Actors

Understanding Non-State Actors

Understanding Non-State Actors

Understanding Non-State Actors

Projecting the Nation

Projecting the Nation

Freud in Zion

Freud in Zion

Beyond Post-Zionism

Beyond Post-Zionism

The Hebrew Bible Reborn

The Hebrew Bible Reborn

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel

Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust

Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust

Projecting the Nation

Projecting the Nation

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