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Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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.

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State University of New York Press

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1438465351

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Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

State and Politics in the Middle East

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

State and Politics in the Middle East

By: Yaacov Yadgar

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel's claim to Jewish identity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108488943

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Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

Traditionists and Modernity

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

Traditionists and Modernity

By: Yaacov Yadgar

Offering a fresh approach to the study of contemporary Jewish identity, the author explores the implications of this identity from the perspective of traditionism, covering issues of religion, tradition, modernity and secularisation within Jewish Israeli society and politics.

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Routledge

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1136939938

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To Be a Jewish State

Zionism as the New Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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To Be a Jewish State

Zionism as the New Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation “Jewish” amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to be identified as Jewish. The volume interrogates the tension between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state—one whose very character is informed by Judaism—and the notion of Israel as a “state of the Jews,” with the sole criterion the maintenance of a demographically Jewish majority, whatever the character of that majority’s Jewishness might or might not be. The volume also examines Zionism’s relationship to Judaism. It provocatively questions whether the Christian notion of supersessionism, the idea that the Christian Church has superseded the nation of Israel in God’s eyes and that Christians are now the true People of God, may now be applied to Zionism, with Zionism understood by some to have taken over the place of traditional Judaism, rendering the actual Jewish religion superfluous. To Be a Jewish State deeply informs the democratic crisis in Israel, discussing whether Jewish laws put into effect by the state or political moves made to ensure a Jewish majority can be seen as undermining democracy. In our current era, with nationalism resurging, To Be a Jewish State urges a critical re-assessment of the very meaning of modern Jewish identity.

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NYU Press

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1479832405

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To Be a Jewish State

Zionism as the New Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Zionism as the New Judaism

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1479832421

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Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

Traditionists and Modernity

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Traditionists and Modernity

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Sovereign Jews

Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

State and Politics in the Middle East

By: Yaacov Yadgar

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State and Politics in the Middle East

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An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel's claim to Jewish identity.

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Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Intersections and Prospects

By: Carsten Schapkow,Klaus Hödl

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Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Intersections and Prospects

By: Carsten Schapkow,Klaus Hödl

Jewish studies has been a vibrant academic discipline for many decades, and since the establishment of the Association for Israel Studies in 1985 to engage in research on the history, politics, society, and culture of the modern state of Israel, the two disciplines have worked along parallel tracks in universities. This book focuses on the vibrant academic field of Israel studies and its complex and dynamic relations and intersections with its “older sibling” Jewish studies. Scholarly contributions from around the globe illustrate that the ongoing and growing interest in Israel studies, in particular since the early 2000s, must be analyzed and understood in its relationship to Jewish studies. Only this will allow scholarship to reflect on not only the intersections between the two fields but also on the prospects of cross-pollination between the disciplines for research and teaching. This will become ever more vital in an increasingly globalized world with shifting concepts, borders, and identity concepts.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793605106

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Book's by Yaacov Yadgar

Sovereign Jews

Sovereign Jews

Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

To Be a Jewish State

To Be a Jewish State

To Be a Jewish State

To Be a Jewish State

Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics

Sovereign Jews

Sovereign Jews

Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

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