In search of identity : Jewish aspects in Israeli culture / edited by Dan Urian and Efraim Karsh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Judaism in Israeli culture / Eliezer Schweid -- Secular Judaism and its prospects / Charles S. Liebman -- Between hegemony and dormant Kulturkampf in Israel / Baruch Kimmerling -- Shall we find sufficient strength? On behalf of Israeli secularism / Gershon Shaked -- Between Rabbi Shach and modern Hebrew literature / Dan Miron -- Spiritual rootlessness and circumscription to the 'Here and now' in the Sabra world view / Avraham Shapira -- The Shdemot circle members in search of Jewish sources / Gad Ufaz -- Jewish education in the Jewish state / David Zisenwine -- Sisera's mother and the Trojan women: on universal aspects of the Jewish/Israeli theatre / Eli Rozik-Rosen -- From Jew to Hebrew: the 'Zionist narrative' in the Israeli cinema of the 1940s and 1950s / Nurit Geraz -- The theme of Jerusalem in the works of the Israeli fathers of conceptual arts / Mordechai Omer -- The Dybbuk revisited: images of religious Jews on the Israeli stage / Shimon Levy -- Baalei teshuva ('Returnees to the religious fold') in Israeli theatre / Dan Urian -- From rejection to recognition: Israeli art and the Holocaust / Dalia Manor.