The Institute's English-language journal, Israel Studies, has been published since 1996 and is the leading international journal on Israel studies. In use around the world, it offers access to cuttingedge research on Israel. Israel Studies has been cosponsored by Brandeis University since 2006 and appears three times annually.
It presents multidisciplinary scholarship on Israeli history, politics, society, and culture. It is published three times a year. Each issue includes essays and documents on issues of broad interest reflecting diverse points of view. Temporal boundaries extend to the pre-state period, although emphasis is on the State of Israel. Due recognition is also given to events and phenomena in diaspora communities as they affect the Israeli State. In addition to articles, issues include documents and review essays of recent scholarly research on Israel.
Editors:
Arieh Saposnik and Natan Aridan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
istudies@bgu.ac.il
Search Websites:
1. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/is
2. https://iupress.org/journals/israelstudies/
Updates:
Recently published: Israel Studies (Indiana University Press)
Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2023
Israel Studies Index 1.1–28.2
Perspectives on Israel Studies
The book series, Perspectives on Israel Studies, is co-sponsored and published by Indiana University Press. Ilan Troen chairs the editorial committee that includes Jonathan Sarna and David Ellenson of Brandeis, Arieh Saposnik and Natan Aridan of BGU, and Donna Robinson Divine of Smith. The series has become an attractive venue for excellent monographs and includes:
Published:
S. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish, eds., Essential Israel - Essays for the 21st Century
Avshalom Rubin, The Limits of the Land: How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, Birthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity under the British Mandate
Moshe Shemesh, The Palestinian National Revival: In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1939-1967
Alan Dowty, Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide
Gerald Steinberg and Ziv Rubinovitz, Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism
Rachel Rojanski, Yiddish in Israel - A History
Neil Caplan and Yaakov Sharett, My Struggle for Peace: The Diary of Moshe Sharett, 1953-1956
Philip Hollander, From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature
Uri Bialer, Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone
Paula Kabalo, Israeli Community Action: Living Through the War of Independence
Michal Shaul, Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel
Nir Kedar, David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy
Forthcoming: 2022
Haim Sandberg, Land Law and Policy in Israel: A Prism of National Identity
Shay Rabineau, Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails
David Ohana, Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman
Motti Inbari, Ruth Blau: A Woman of Many Faces
The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism publishes two peer-reviewed journals. The Hebrew language journal, Iyunim (Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society), published annually for the past 20 years, provides a platform for the examination of Israeli history and society from a variety of perspectives. In addition to the annual volume, Iyunim publishes thematic volumes on topics such as Zionism, the economy, and controversial Zionist leaders. Future volumes will focus on gender, music, and secularism versus traditionalism in the modern age. Notably, this journal features on the syllabi of all Israel studies courses in the country.
Israelis is an academic journal published by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism. The journal is published once a year and serves as a bilingual publishing platform for research on Israel & Zionism by Ph.D. candidates and early-career researcher (up to 5 years from the submission date of the dissertation)
Studies in the History of Jewish Education in Israel and the Diaspora
Dor Ledor is a Hebrew language academic journal, published annually since 1982. The journal publishes original research as well as book reviews in the history of Jewish and Hebrew education. The journal welcomes articles that approach the topic from various philosophical and sociological angles. In addition to its annual volume, Dor Ledor publishes thematic volumes on issues related to its main theme. The journal appears in both printed and digital format.
