The Israeli nation-state : political, constitutional, and cultural challenges / edited by Fania Oz-Salzberger and Yedidia Z. Stern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oz-Salzberger, Fania, editor.

Stern, Yedidia Z., editor.

Series:

Israel (Boston, Mass.)

Israel: Society, Culture and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Israel.

Multiculturalism.

Israel.

Local Subjects:

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-its internal affinities and common denominators. Contributors: Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yedidia Z. Stern, Ayman K. Agbaria, Aviad Bakshi, Ariel L. Bendor, Ruth Gavison, Michael M. Karayanni, David Passig, Avi Sagi, Gideon Sapir, Anita Shapira, Daniel Statman, Gadi Taub, Shira Wolosky, Alexander Yakobson, Yaffa Zilbershats.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introductory Remarks / Oz-Salzberger, Fania / Stern, Yedidia Z.

Part I. Revisiting the Basics

1. The State of Israel and National Identity / Stern, Yedidia Z.

2. What is Zionism? / Taub, Gadi

Part II. Historical and Philosophical Contexts

3. Democratic First, Jewish Second: A Rationale / Oz-Salzberger, Fania

4. Cosmopolitanism versus Normative Difference: From Habermas to Levinas-Is Israel an Exception? / Wolosky, Shira

5. The Holocaust as the Zionist and Anti-Zionist Narrative of the State of Israel / Shapira, Anita

Part III. State and Nation

6. The Constitutional Significance of the Jewishness of Israel / Bendor, Ariel L.

7. Reflections on the Meaning and Justification of "Jewish" in the Expression "A Jewish and Democratic State" / Gavison, Ruth

8. Israel as a Nation-State in Supreme Court Rulings / Bakshi, Aviad / Sapir, Gideon

9. A Jewish Majority as the Leading Criterion for Shaping Immigration Policy to Israel / Zilbershats, Yaffa

Part IV. State and Religions

10. Religion and State: A Critical Analysis of Meanings in Public Discourse / Sagi, Avi

11. The Right to the Land: From Moral Justifications to Religious Justifications and Back Again / Statman, Daniel

12. The Liberal/Multicultural Nature of the Religious Accommodations for the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: A Curse or a Blessing? / Karayanni, Michael M.

Part V. Society, Culture, and Demography

13. Is Israeli Society Disintegrating? Doomsday Prophecies and Facts on the Ground / Yakobson, Alexander

14. The Palestinian Israelis' Attempt to Challenge the Jewish State in Education: A Citizenship Act or a Radical Shift? / Agbaria, Ayman K.

15. The Future of Nationhood in Israel / Passig, David

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-61811-390-9

OCLC:

883133086