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Editors: Oded Haklai, Queen’s University (Ontario), Canada, Adia Mendelson-Maoz, The Open University of Israel, Israel

Volume 41, Issue 2 Articles House and Home in Mizrahi Theater Spatial Perspectives Naphtaly Shem-Tov Performative Returns to Haifa Rethinking Palestinian Theater in a “Wounded City” Dorit Yerushalmi Place-Naming in Jerusalem Change and Continuity in Israel’s Postcolonial Divided Capital Oren Barak and Enav Birnbaum Menachem Begin’s Independence Radio Address and the Principles of Israel’s Founding Neil Rogachevsky Through an African American Lens The Black Press and Palestine, 1947–1949 Ronny Regev Team Voting A Novel Paradigm for Primary Elections to Form the Party List Uri Kinrot, Ariel Rosenfeld, and Nimrod Talmon Book Review Book Review Noa Avron Barak

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