The Transformation Of Israeli Society

S. N. Eisenstadt

Preface -- The Historical Background -- The Emergence of Jewish Civilization -- The Second Commonwealth -- Beyond the Second Commonwealth — the Exilic Period and the Predominance of the Rabbinical Mould -- The Modern Times -- The Zionist Movement and the Settlement in the Land of Israel -- The Zionist Movement and Ideology -- The Settlement in the Land of Israel — the Yishuv -- The State of Israel — Crystallization of Institutional Moulds -- The State of Israel — Historical Setting -- The Political Mould -- Political Economy and Strata Formation -- Educational and Cultural Contours -- Absorption and Integration of Immigrants and the Emergence and Transformations of the ‘Ethnic’ Problem -- Israel and Minority Populations — the Arabs and Other Minorities in Israel -- Israeli Society in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s — the Six Day War and its Aftermath -- The State of Israel – Change and Transformation -- The Yom Kippur War and its Aftermath – Change and Transition -- The Conditions of the Disintegration of the Initial Institutional Mould of Israeli Society -- The New Historical Experience of Jewish Communities in the Diaspora and the Place of the State of Israel -- The Late 1970s and the 1980s — Change, Transition and Confrontation -- Israeli Society in the 1980s–Trends, Developments and Problems -- Concluding Reflections