Sovereign Jews : Israel, Zionism, and Judaism /

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Author / Creator:	Yadgar, Yaacov, author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Description:	vii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Zionism. Zionism and Judaism. Jews -- Identity -- History. Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Israel -- Identity -- History. National characteristics, Israeli. Sovereignty. Civilization. Jews -- Identity. Jews -- Politics and government. National characteristics, Israeli. Sovereignty. Zionism. Zionism and Judaism. Israel -- Civilization. Israel. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11006159

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ISBN:	9781438465333 1438465335
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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. 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.
Other form:	Online version: Yadgar, Yaacov, author. Sovereign Jews. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017] 9781438465357

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Jewish Sovereignty?
Part 1. Religion, Judaism, Tradition
Chapter 1. Religion-The History and Politics of an Ahistorical Concept
Chapter 2. Are Jewish Traditions a Religion?
Chapter 3. Tradition as Language and Narrative
Part 2. Zionism and Jewish Traditions
Chapter 4. Zionism, Jewish "Religion," and Secularism
Chapter 5. Zionism and Jewish Traditions
Chapter 6. Main Zionist Streams and Jewish Traditions
Part 3. The Israeli Nation-State and Jewish Traditions
Chapter 7. Israeliness vs. Jewishness: National Identity in Israel and Jewish Traditions
Chapter 8. Statist Jews: Secularity, Sovereignty, Zionism-and Judaism
Chapter 9. Who Needs the Status Quo? Statist Jews and "Religious Coercion"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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