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

9780190068943 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource.

DS143 .D25 2019

956.9405

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.

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.

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