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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evron, Boas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.