Jewish state or Israeli nation?
Başlık:
Jewish state or Israeli nation?
ISBN:
9780585103020
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Uniform Title:
Ḥeshbon ha-leʼumi. English
Yayın Bilgileri:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages)
Contents:
Foreword / James S. Diamon -- Prologue: the victory of the rabbinical establishment and the decline of the nation -- Zionist theory and its problems -- Zionism: the product of a unique historical situation -- Anti-semitism: the European background -- The transition to continental systems and the decline of zionism -- Creating a new people -- Holy Land versus homeland -- The Hebrew people versus the Palestinian people -- Zionism without mercy -- The maturation of power and the emergence of a nation -- The national aim blurred -- Canaanism: solutions and problems -- The Messianic farce -- Conclusion: Israel and the Jewish people.
Abstract:
Boas Evron traces the violent fissures in Israeli society to a basic incompatibility between the concept of a democratic, secular state, on the one hand, and an integral nation defined on a religious basis, on the other. Surveying the full sweep of Jewish history, Evron argues that the Jews were never a territorial nation. Judaism is instead a religious civilization for which the diaspora was not a historical coincidence but a necessary condition of its existence. He concludes that Israel should become a territorial state accommodating its sizeable non-Jewish minority in a truly democratic way.
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Dil:
English