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Description:In 1988, the Israeli journalist and intellectual Boas Evron dropped a bombshell of a book titled A National Reckoning (published in English in 1995 as Jewish State or Israeli Nation?) - a ranging critical reinterpretation of Jewish and Zionist history. 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, he 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 so he concludes that Israel should become a territorial state accommodating its sizeable non-Jewish minority in a truly democratic way. But Evron, who died in 2018, was an intellectual’s intellectual—a writer whose presence is felt everywhere in the writings of Israel’s leftist intelligentsia, still remains largely unknown outside that milieu. ____". . . an excellent book . . . provides valuable insights into a broad range of cutting-edge topics in the social sciences such as ethnic and identity politics, nation building, transnationalism and diasporas." ―Choice"This book will take its place as a classic in the field . . ." ―Journal of Church and State" . . . a lucid formulation of post-Zionist ideology for the generation of the 1980s and 1990s." ―International Journal of Middle East Studies"It is . . . a remarkable experience to read Evron's thoughtful book. He finds much to criticize in the conventional reading of Jewish history and argues that Israel should be thought of not as a state for the Jewish people but as a territorial state much like others, with full rights for all its inhabitants." ―Foreign Affairs" . . . an extremely erudite, brilliant and powerful book with a novel a sober secular conception of Judaism." ―Maariv"A provocative post-Zionist critique of the fundamental concepts of Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, and Israeli nationalism." ―Choice"This compelling book conveys the reader straight to the frontline of thebattle raging in Israel over the proper boundaries of the nationalidentity. Evron's radical post-Zionist critique of Israel's conceptualfoundations calls in question the core link between Israel and Judaism andbetween Israel and the Jewish diaspora. His penetrating analysischallenges the muddled ideological bearings of Israel's publicself-images and points the way toward what may be a more realisticadaptation to its Middle Eastern environment." ―Noah Lucas, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies"Boas Evron is one of the most important and innovative contemporary Jewish-Israeli thinkers and writers. . . . For the English-speaking reader, Evron's book is a unique opportunity to understand the new secular Israeli nationalism, written by one of its most critical yet optimistic representatives." ―Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew UniversityWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jewish State or Israeli Nation?. To get started finding Jewish State or Israeli Nation?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1988, the Israeli journalist and intellectual Boas Evron dropped a bombshell of a book titled A National Reckoning (published in English in 1995 as Jewish State or Israeli Nation?) - a ranging critical reinterpretation of Jewish and Zionist history. 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, he 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 so he concludes that Israel should become a territorial state accommodating its sizeable non-Jewish minority in a truly democratic way. But Evron, who died in 2018, was an intellectual’s intellectual—a writer whose presence is felt everywhere in the writings of Israel’s leftist intelligentsia, still remains largely unknown outside that milieu. ____". . . an excellent book . . . provides valuable insights into a broad range of cutting-edge topics in the social sciences such as ethnic and identity politics, nation building, transnationalism and diasporas." ―Choice"This book will take its place as a classic in the field . . ." ―Journal of Church and State" . . . a lucid formulation of post-Zionist ideology for the generation of the 1980s and 1990s." ―International Journal of Middle East Studies"It is . . . a remarkable experience to read Evron's thoughtful book. He finds much to criticize in the conventional reading of Jewish history and argues that Israel should be thought of not as a state for the Jewish people but as a territorial state much like others, with full rights for all its inhabitants." ―Foreign Affairs" . . . an extremely erudite, brilliant and powerful book with a novel a sober secular conception of Judaism." ―Maariv"A provocative post-Zionist critique of the fundamental concepts of Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, and Israeli nationalism." ―Choice"This compelling book conveys the reader straight to the frontline of thebattle raging in Israel over the proper boundaries of the nationalidentity. Evron's radical post-Zionist critique of Israel's conceptualfoundations calls in question the core link between Israel and Judaism andbetween Israel and the Jewish diaspora. His penetrating analysischallenges the muddled ideological bearings of Israel's publicself-images and points the way toward what may be a more realisticadaptation to its Middle Eastern environment." ―Noah Lucas, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies"Boas Evron is one of the most important and innovative contemporary Jewish-Israeli thinkers and writers. . . . For the English-speaking reader, Evron's book is a unique opportunity to understand the new secular Israeli nationalism, written by one of its most critical yet optimistic representatives." ―Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew UniversityWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jewish State or Israeli Nation?. To get started finding Jewish State or Israeli Nation?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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