SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 51) middle eastern studies DRORI SKETCH #2 08/09/08 FOUR-COLOR PANTONE 106C PANTONE Black 3C Typeface: Simoncini Garamond ITC Franklin Gothic FOREIGN WORKERS IN ISRAEL Global Perspectives Israel Drori Explores how the entry of migrant workers into Israel raises questions beyond just those of the labor market. In this account of a social experiment gone awry, Israel Drori exposes a littleknown and recent phenomenon: the importation of foreign workers from Third World economies to Israel. Focusing on Romanian, Thai, and Filipina migrants brought to Israel for specified periods of employment, Drori examines the effect of migrants on Israeli society, particularly the issue of national identity. What began as a political corrective—avoiding the danger of hiring Palestinians to do work that Jewish Israelis would not—has developed into a social and economic problem the state does not know how to handle. In addition to examining the work experiences and social lives of these workers, Drori also situates the Israeli case within a global context, where many affluent nations have significant populations of marginalized, undocumented workers. FOREIGN WORKERS IN ISRAEL GLOBAL •ISRAEL DRORI• PERSPECTIVES JEWISH FuNDAMENTALISM AND THE TEMpLE MOuNT Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount Who Will Build the Third Temple? Who Will Build the Third Temple? Motti Inbari Examines radical and messianic movements in Israel seeking to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem. Motti Inbari Israel Drori is Professor at the School of Business Administration, College of Management, Israel, and also teaches at the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry and coauthor (with Izhak Schnell and Michael Sofer) of Arab Industrialization in Israel: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Periphery. A volume in the SUNY series in Israeli Studies Russell Stone, editor JANuARy • 277 pp 5 tables, 1 figure $75.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7689-5 The Temple Mount, located in Jerusalem, is the most sacred site in Judaism and the third-most sacred site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The sacred nature of the site for both religions has made it one of the focal points of the ArabIsraeli conflict. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount is an original and provocative study of the theological roots and historical circumstances that have given rise to the movement of the Temple Builders. Motti Inbari points to the Six Day War in 1967 as the watershed event: the Israeli victory in the war resurrected and intensified Temple-oriented messianic beliefs. Initially confined to relatively limited circles, more recent “land for peace” negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors have created theological shock waves, enabling some of the ideas of Temple Mount activists to gain wider public acceptance. Inbari also examines cooperation between Third Temple groups in Israel and fundamentalist Christian circles in the United States, and explains how such cooperation is possible and in what ways it is manifested. “…The book adds enormously to our knowledge of Jewish religious thought and it should be required reading for anyone interested in the subject.” — Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina Motti Inbari is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. A volume in the SUNY series in Israeli Studies Russell Stone, editor MAy • 224 pp $24.95 pb 978-1-4384-2624-2 $65.00 hc 978-1-4384-2623-5 directtext dt e e www.sunypress.edu 51 P http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61742 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61815
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