Sovereign Jews

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The question of Jewish sovereignty shapes Jewish identity in Israel, the status of non-Jews, and relations between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, yet its consequences remain enigmatic. In Sovereign Jews, Yaacov Yadgar highlights the shortcomings of mainstream discourse and offers a novel explanation of Zionist ideology and the Israeli polity. Yadgar argues that secularism's presumed binary pitting religion against politics is illusory. He shows that the key to understanding this alleged dichotomy is Israel's interest in maintaining its sovereignty as the nation-state of Jews. This creates a need to mark a majority of the population as Jews and to distinguish them from non-Jews. Coupled with the failure to formulate a viable alternative national identity (either "Hebrew" or "Israeli"), it leads the ostensibly secular state to apply a narrow interpretation of Jewish religion as a political tool for maintaining a Jewish majority.

العنوان Sovereign Jews : Israel, Zionism, and Judaism / by Yaacov Yadgar.
الناشر Albany, New York : SUNY Press
تاريخ الإصدار 2017
ملاحظات Includes bibliographical references and index.
الشكل 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations
اللغة الانكليزية
تأريخ حقوق الملكية الفكرية ©2017
رقم النظام 997010702286605171
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