Jewish studies has been a vibrant academic discipline for many decades and since the establishment of the Association for Israel Studies in 1985 to engage in research on the history politics society and culture of the modern state of Israel the two disciplines have worked along parallel tracks in universities. This book focuses on the vibrant academic field of Israel studies and its complex and dynamic relations and intersections with its ampldquoolder siblingamprdquo Jewish studies. Scholarly contributions from around the globe illustrate that the ongoing and growing interest in Israel studies in particular since the early 2000s must be analyzed and understood in its relationship to Jewish studies. Only this will allow scholarship to reflect on not only the intersections between the two fields but also on the prospects of crosspollination between the disciplines for research and teaching. This will become ever more vital in an increasingly globalized world with shifting concepts borders and identity concepts.