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1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Zionism -- Philosophy.
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Zionism -- Philosophy. |
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Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
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Jews. |
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Israel. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Israel -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Electronic books.
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Ḥeshbon ha-leʼumi. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94051695
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Print version: Evron, Boas. Ḥeshbon ha-leʼumi. English. Jewish state or Israeli nation?. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995 0253319633 (DLC) 94024878 (OCoLC)30624228 |
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058510302X (electronic book) |
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9780585103020 (electronic book) |
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0253319633 |
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9780253319630 (alkaline paper) |
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