TY  - GEN
N2  - This text examines the struggles 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 Kafkaesque 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 work 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.
AB  - This text examines the struggles 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 Kafkaesque 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 work 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.
T1  - Israel has a Jewish problem :self-determination as self-elimination /
AU  - Dalsheim, Joyce,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - DS143
ID  - 915670
KW  - Jews
KW  - Jewish nationalism.
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - Jews
KW  - National characteristics, Israeli.
SN  - 9780190068943
TI  - Israel has a Jewish problem :self-determination as self-elimination /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680251.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680251.001.0001
ER  -