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Multi-ethnic Israel

A Research Guide for CORE 174

Overview Sources · Finding  Books · Finding Articles

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Arts  · Atlases and Maps · Biographies · Culture

Economics · Ethnic Groups and Nationalities · Foreign Policy · History  

Human Rights · Language/Dictionaries · Law · Literature · Military

News · Politics and Government · Religion · Statistics

Web Resources ·  Women

Overview Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica
 ▫ CASE Ref.  DS102.8 .E496 1997

Israel from the World Factbook of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
 ▫ with separate entries for the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Israel - A Country Study from the Library of Congress

Israel yearbook and almanac
 ▫. DS101 .I68 2000

Israel section within Europa World Plus Online
also older in print
The Middle East and North Africa
   (back volumes LASR Main DS49 .M5 )

New encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel / Geoffrey Wigoder
 ▫ CASE Ref. DS149 .N56 1993

Countries & Their Cultures
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
CASE Ref. GN307 .C68 2001 vol. 1-4  also ONLINE

Encyclopedia of modern Asia  Online. Colgate Network  2004 ed

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (online) 2004 ed
- revision of Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East / edited by Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1996.
CASE Ref. DS43 .E53 1996 vol. 1-4

Finding Books

Search MONDO, the Colgate Libraries' Catalog, using the KEYWORD search function.  
You may want to search for the word ISRAEL and another topical word

 

Or, search MONDO by Exact Subject.  Some relevant Library of Congress subject headings might be:

Israel -- Ethnic relations
Israel -- Politics and government 
Jews -- History 
West Bank -- Economic conditions
Jewish-Arab relations
Arab-Israeli conflict

Search for Resources in Other Libraries

Connect NY union catalog of upstate NY academic libraries (2 to 4 day delivery)
Worldcat union catalog combining the holdings of thousands of libraries (10 day delivery)

 

Finding Articles

Search for Israel-focused articles and news reports in these research databases organized by discipline

Arts

Israel, by Marcus Breen, in The international movie industry / edited by Gorham Kindem
 ▫ CASE Ref. PN1993.5.A1 I54 2000

Israeli cinema : East/West and the politics of representation / by Ella Shohat
 ▫ LASR Main PN1993.5.I86 S56 1989

Israeli film : a reference guide / Amy Kronish and Costel
Safirman.
▫  CASE Ref.  PN1993.5.I86 K76 2003

The Grove dictionary of art.  Online  Colgate Network N31.D5
 

Atlases and Maps

Atlas of Israel : cartography, physical and human geography
 ▫ CASE Atlases G2235 .I77 1985

An atlas of Palestine : the West Bank and Gaza / Mahad al-Abhath al-Tatbiqiyah--al-Quds
 ▫ CASE Atlases G2237.W4 M34 2000

Atlas of the Arab-Israeli conflict / Martin Gilbert
 ▫ CASE Res 2hr. Map G2236.S1 G52 1993

Historical Atlas of Jerusalem / Meir Ben-Dov
 ▫ CASE Ref DS109.9 .B455 2002

The illustrated atlas of Jerusalem / Dan Bahat
 ▫ CASE Atlases G2239.J4 B34 1990

The West Bank and Gaza atlas / by Meron Benvenisti and Shlomo Khayat
 ▫ CASE Atlases G2237.W4 B4 1988

Israel.  Maps by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
 ▫ CASE Docs Pamphlet PREX 3.10/4:IS 7/15 

Israel Maps from the  Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Biographies

Who's who, Israel 
 ▫ LASR Main DS125.3.A2 W53 1968 (ceased with 1968 edition)

Culture

Encyclopedia of food and culture / Solomon H. Katz, editor
 ▫  Online GT2850 .E53 2003 vol. 1-3

In search of identity : Jewish aspects in Israeli culture / edited by Dan Urian and Efraim Karsh
 ▫ LASR Main DS113.3 .I5 1999

Economics

The Arab minority in Israel's economy : patterns of ethnic inequality / Noah Lewin-Epstein and Moshe Semyonov
 ▫ LASR Main HC415.25 .L48 1993

The economy of modern Israel : malaise and promise / Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka
 ▫ LASR Main HC415.25 .R38 1993

The Gaza Strip : the political economy of de-development / Sara Roy
 ▫ LASR Main HC415.25.Z7 G397 1995

The Israeli economy / Paul Rivlin
 ▫ LASR Main HC415.25 .R58 1992

Labour and the political economy in Israel / Michael Shalev
 ▫ LASR Main HD8660.A5 H584 1992

On the margins : the Arab population in the Israeli economy / Aziz Haidar
 ▫ LASR Main DS113.7 .H3146 1995

The Palestinian economy : between imposed integration and voluntary separation / by Arie Arnon
 ▫ LASR Main HC415.25 .P25 1997

Education

World education encyclopedia : a survey of educational systems worldwide [2nd ed.] / Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson
 ▫ Online. LB15 .W87 2001 vol. 1-3

Ethnic Groups and Nationalities

Hundreds of books on ethnic groups and nationalities in Israel can be accessed by a MONDO search for these Exact Subjects:

Israel -- Ethnic relations
Israel -- Emigration and immigration
Immigrants -- Israel
Group identity -- Israel
Ethnicity -- Israel

 

Foreign Policy

Between East and West : Israel's foreign policy orientation, 1948-1956 / Uri Bialer
 ▫ LASR  Main DS119.6 .B53 1990

Isolated states : a comparative analysis / Deon Geldenhuys
 ▫ LASR Main JX1391 .G45 1990

Israel and Europe : an appraisal in history / Howard M. Sachar
 ▫ LASR Main DS119.6 .S33 1999

Israel and the western powers, 1952-1960 / Zach Levey
 ▫ LASR Main DS119.6 .L49 1997

Israeli foreign policy : South Africa and Central America / by Jane Hunter
 ▫ LASR Main DS119.8.S6 H86 1987

A place among the nations : Israel and the world / Benjamin Netanyahu
 ▫ LASR Main DS119.6 .N48 1993

Zionism and the foundations of Israeli diplomacy / Sasson Sofer translated by Dorothea Shefet-Vanson
 ▫ LASR Main DS149 .S64 1998

Treaties and Agreements Library (Hein online)
*See reference librarian for search help

History

Encyclopedia of Jewish history : events and eras of the Jewish people / ed. Joseph Alpher
 ▫ CASE Ref. DS118 .E465 1986b

Historical dictionary of Israel / by Bernard Reich
 ▫ CASE Ref. DS126.5 .R38 1992

The New encyclopedia of archaeological excavations in the Holy Land / Ephraim Stern, editor 
 ▫ CASE Ref. DS111.A2 E5813 1993

Human Rights

Amnesty International reports on human rights in Israel and the occupied territories

Civilian pawns : laws of war violations and the use of weapons on the Israel-Lebanon border / Human Rights Watch Arms Project, Human Rights Watch/Middle East
 ▫ LASR Main JX5144 .C58 1996

Human Rights Watch reports on human rights in Israel and the occupied territories

Walking the red line : Israelis in search of justice for Palestine / edited by Deena Hurwitz
 ▫ LASR Main DS119.7 .W334 1992

Language / Dictionaries

A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language for readers of English / Ernest David Klein
 ▫ CASE Ref. PJ4833 .K54 1987

Diplomatic Hebrew : a glossary of current terminology / comp. by Lawrence Marwick, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division
 ▫ LASR Main JX1226 .M3

Modern Hebrew-English dictionary / Avraham Zilkha
 ▫ CASE Ref. PJ4833 .Z57 1989

Rav-milon : milon didakti du leshoni Ivri-Ivri-Angli / Liorah Vainbakh, Ednah Lauden
 ▫ CASE Ref. PJ4833 .V35 1993

Law

A Guide to the Israeli Legal System / Ruth Levush, at LLRX.com

Legal systems of the world : a political, social, and cultural encyclopedia / edited by Herbert M. Kritzer.
 ▫ CASE Ref. K48 .L44 2002 vol. 2 E-L

State of Israel:  Guide to Law Online / U.S. Library of Congress

Literature

The Arab in Israeli literature / Gila Ramras-Rauch
 ▫ LASR Main PJ5030.A7 R36 1989

Hebrew literature in the wake of the Holocaust / edited by Leon I. Yudkin
 ▫ LASR Main PJ5012.H65 H43 1993

Israeli and Palestinian identities in history and literature / edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek and David C. Jacobson
 ▫ LASR Main DS113.7 .I86 1999

Oral world and written word : ancient Israelite literature / Susan Niditch
 ▫ LASR Main BS535 .N53 1996

What is Jewish literature? / edited with an introduction by Hana Wirth-Nesher
 ▫ CASE Main PN842 .W48 1994

Military

Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Online) 2005 ed.

Hundreds of books on military issues in Israel and the wider Middle East can be accessed by a MONDO search for these Exact Subjects:

Israel -- Armed Forces
Israel -- Defenses
Israel -- History, Military
Israel -- Military policy

Civil-military relations -- Israel 
Militarism -- Israel
National security -- Israel
Nationalism -- Israel
Nuclear weapons -- Israel

Arab countries -- Armed Forces
Arab countries -- Defenses
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-
Middle East -- Armed Forces
National security -- Middle East

 

News

Case Periodical Indexes and Abstracts: Newspapers & Media, for subject searching in news databases

Ha'aretz.com, an English language version of the newspaper of record in Israel

Jerusalem Post, an English language newspaper

Live radio and audio streams from Israeli radio and television are accessible from the Radio Amichai site and Kolisrael.com

Yahoo directory of Israeli news sites

World press encyclopedia : a survey of press systems worldwide /
Amanda C. Quick, project editor. Detroit : Gale, c2003.
 ▫ Online PN4728 .Q53 2003 vol. 1-2

Primary Sources

Treaties and Agreements Library (Hein online)
*See reference librarian for search help
 

Politics and Government

Elections in Asia and the Pacific : a data handbook / edited by Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz and Christof Hartmann
 ▫ CASE Ref. JQ38 .E44 2001 vol. 1

Governments of the WWW: Israel (Gunnar Anzinger)

Political dictionary of the state of Israel / Susan Hattis Rolef, editor, 2nd ed
 ▫ CASE Ref. DS126.5 .P62 1993

Profiles in terror : the guide to Middle East terrorist organizations / Aaron Mannes
▫ CASE Ref. HV6433.M5 M35  2004

Public policy in Israel / edited by David Nachmias and Gila Menahem
 ▫ LASR Main JQ1830.A56 P645 2002

The West Bank handbook : a political lexicon / Meron Benvenisti
 ▫ CASE Ref. DS110.W47 B46 1986

Religion

Debating Islam in the Jewish state : the development of policy toward Islamic institutions in Israel / Alisa Rubin Peled
 ▫ LASR Main DS113.7 .P42 2001

Religions of the world : a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices / J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann
 ▫ CASE Ref  BL80.3 .R45 2002 vol 1-4

Statistics

World development indicators
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
CASE Ref. HC59.15 .W656 2005 or Online
older eds. in LASR Main

Statistical yearbook = Annuaire statistique / Unesco.
 ▫ CASE Ref. AY64.U53 2001 (older vol. LASR Main)

International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell
 ▫ CASE Ref. HA4675 .M552 2003

United Nations Statistics Division

Web Resources

Selected Internet Resources. Israel. Portals to the World (Library of Congress)

Women

The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide. The
Middle East and North Africa / editor-in-chief, Lynn Walter ; volume editor, Bahira Sherif-Trask.
 ▫  CASE Ref. HQ1726.5 .G74 2003
 

Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Israel: the myth of gender equality in Women's rights : a global view / edited by Lynn Walter
 ▫ LASR Main HQ1236 .W6527 2001

The World's women, 2000 : trends and statistics [3rd edition]
 ▫ CASE Ref. HQ1154 .W675 2000 

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