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Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism

Yadgar, Yaacov

Hardcover

Religion General JudaismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1438465335
ISBN13: 9781438465333
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.

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. In Sovereign Jews, 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.

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