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Customer Reviews: Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0  New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel.: 
Just as Israel stands out from the rest of the Middle East in its basically Western orientation, so does scholarship about Israel differ from that about the rest of the region: unlike the fairly primitive state of research elsewhere, Israel studies can match those of any Western state�as the excellent New Encyclopedia proves. (It�s �new� because it builds on a 1971 edition, The Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, edited by the late Raphael Patai, adding about 30 percent more material).The... more info
Richard A. Macales, columnist, "Mac's Facts": 
This two-volume set is an update of an earlier work by the preeminent scholar and Herzl diaries translator Raphael Patai. It lists practically every event, every person of note and every place in modern Israeli history, religion and culture. It contains many rare photographs, including Orthodox leaders at the U.N. and in meetings with Zionists in the 1940s and '50s. Makes a nice companion to the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
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