Israel''s Jewish Identity Crisis - State and Politics in the Middle East

An innovative and provocative study tackling the main assumptions surrounding Israel's claim to Jewish identity.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction. Israel's Jewish identity crisis; 1. The politics of religious conversion and the limits of Zionist nationhood; 2. Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people?; 3. Two contemporary debates on Zionism and secularism; 4. Non-Jewish Israeli nationalism and the limits of Israeliness.

About the author

Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on matters of Jewish identity, nationalism, secularism, modernity and tradition in Israel. He is the author of Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism (2017).

Summary

Innovative, provocative, and timely; tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state, with far-reaching implications on politics, society and culture beyond the state of Israel. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, it is an important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies.

Product details

• Authors: Yaacov Yadgar, Yaacov (University of Oxford) Yadgar, Yadgar Yaacov
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108488945
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48894-5
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: The Global Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Middle East, Political science & theory, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Political science and theory, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Religious & theocratic ideologies