Russell A. Stone is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at The American University. He is the author of Social Change in Israel: Attitudes and Events and editor of the SUNY Press series in Israeli Studies. Walter P. Zenner is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His works include Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience; and Minorities in the Middle: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, both published by SUNY Press; and Jewish Societies in the Middle East. He is also the editor of the SUNY Press series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies.

Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship is part of a series of review volumes sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies and published by SUNY Press that provides a framework for discussion of research and scholarship on all aspects of Israeli society. This book brings together review essays commenting on issues in Israeli culture, literature, politics, scholarship, and society. The authors identify a series of recently published books and provide critical commentary. In their examination, they go beyond the works themselves to comment on the state of scholarship and social conditions. Topics covered include Israeli writers' reactions to the Holocaust, critical analyses of the popular Israeli poet and novelist Amnon Shamosh, the linguistic relations between Yiddish and Modern Hebrew, ethnic relations, the emerging "mainstream" of Israeli culture, politics, Israeli historical revisionism, and social, psychological, and political aspects of the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict.