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Jewish state or Israeli nation?
- Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Zionism--Philosophy
Jews--Israel--Identity
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9780253319630 and 9780585103020
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- Jewish state or Israeli nation?
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 11005