Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture Edited by: Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman When a book like Narratives of Dissent appears, we realize that we have been waiting for it for years. This collection of essays explores not only the many obvious representations of war and conflict in Israel but also those that tend to fall under the radar of scholarly studies. In focusing on music, film, theatre, photography, monuments, internet sites, and other material artifacts of a culture of commemoration and dissent, as well as on the more canonic fiction and poetry, this volume demonstrates that nothing in Israeli society lies outside of the war culture. It also seeks to replace insularity and the dialectics of exclusion with a dialogue between the Israeli and Palestinian/Arab war narratives. While specific to the Israeli and Palestinian context, it also uncovers some of the internal contradictions within cultures fashioned as democracies and constituted and punctuated by wars and ethnic cleansing-from the Athenian Polis to the American Republic. Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Narratives of Dissent is a groundbreaking volume, unprecedented in its breadth and depth. It promises to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date multidisciplinary volume on this subject for now and in the foreseeable future. The fascinating, wide-ranging discussions assembled in the volume by the two editors are a real contribution to many fields of studies: Israeli history, politics, society, literature, film, theatre, and music. –Shachar Pinsker, associate professor of Hebrew literature and culture, University of Michigan.