The Israeli Nation-State : : Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges /

The Israeli Nation-State : : Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges / / ed. by Yedidia Stern, Fania Oz-Salzberger.

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This volume of original essays, by some of Israel’s most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s ever-evolving theater of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its deep divisions and—more surprisingly, perhaps—i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Agbaria, Ayman K.,
Bakshi, Aviad,
Bendor, Ariel L.,
Gavison, Ruth,
Karayanni, Michael M.,
Oz-Salzberger, Fania,
Passig, David,
Sagi, Avi,
Sapir, Gideon,
Shapira, Anita,
Statman, Daniel,
Stern, Yedidia Z.,
Taub, Gadi,
Wolosky, Shira,
Yakobson, Alexander,
Zilbershats, Yaffa,
HerausgeberIn:
Oz-Salzberger, Fania,
Stern, Yedidia,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Israel: Society, Culture, and History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introductory Remarks
  • Part I. Revisiting the Basics
  • 1. The State of Israel and National Identity
  • 2. What is Zionism?
  • Part II. Historical and Philosophical Contexts
  • 3. Democratic First, Jewish Second: A Rationale
  • 4. Cosmopolitanism versus Normative Difference: From Habermas to Levinas–Is Israel an Exception?
  • 5. The Holocaust as the Zionist and Anti-Zionist Narrative of the State of Israel
  • Part III. State and Nation
  • 6. The Constitutional Significance of the Jewishness of Israel
  • 7. Reflections on the Meaning and Justification of “Jewish” in the Expression “A Jewish and Democratic State”
  • 8. Israel as a Nation-State in Supreme Court Rulings
  • 9. A Jewish Majority as the Leading Criterion for Shaping Immigration Policy to Israel
  • Part IV. State and Religions
  • 10. Religion and State: A Critical Analysis of Meanings in Public Discourse
  • 11. The Right to the Land: From Moral Justifications to Religious Justifications and Back Again
  • 12. The Liberal/Multicultural Nature of the Religious Accommodations for the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: A Curse or a Blessing?
  • Part V. Society, Culture, and Demography
  • 13. Is Israeli Society Disintegrating? Doomsday Prophecies and Facts on the Ground
  • 14. The Palestinian Israelis’ Attempt to Challenge the Jewish State in Education: A Citizenship Act or a Radical Shift?
  • 15. The Future of Nationhood in Israel
  • Index

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