Jewish state or Israeli nation? /
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 nev...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1995.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index. |
ISBN: | 058510302X 9780585103020 |