Israel has a Jewish problem : self-determination as self-elimination / Joyce Dalsheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalsheim, Joyce, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Israel--Identity.

Jews.

Politics and government.

Self-determination, National.

Israel.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Jewish nationalism.

Self-determination, National--Israel.

Jews--Israel--Politics and government.

National characteristics, Israeli.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xviii, 223 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This book examines the struggle over Jewishness in Israel. Although the state was founded to liberate the Jews, some Israelis must leave the country to get married, while others are denigrated for trying to live the Torah life. The Kafaesque nature of such struggles illustrates how modern democratic nation-states, meant to liberate citizens through rule by "the people" and for "the people," instead create "a people" for the state and its projects. The book argues that self-determination becomes a form of self-elimination as it produces the ethnos for the nation, inevitably narrowing the possible forms of personal and cultural identity. Sovereignty, secularism, nationalism, citizenship, self-determination, assimilation, Israel, settler-colonialism, religion, Jewishness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Before the law

On goat surveillance

The false promises of sovereignty

Self-elimination

Is Israel a Christian state?

The Jewish question again.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780190680251

0190680253

9780190680268

0190680261

9780190680275

019068027X

9780190068943

0190068949

OCLC:

1098220087