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The Jewish state : a century later / Alan Dowty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520927063
  • 0520927060
  • 0585273340
  • 9780585273341
  • 9780520209411
  • 0520209419
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish state.DDC classification:
  • 320.95694 21
LOC classification:
  • JQ1830.A58 D69 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Shaping of Israeli Democracy -- Democracy in Israel -- Jewish Politics -- The Zionist Revolution -- Building a Civic State -- The Filter of Security -- The Erosion of Ideology -- Challenges to Israeli Democracy -- The Communal Split -- Religion and Politics -- Arabs in Israel -- The Impact of the West Bank and Gaza.
Summary: The Jewish State is a comprehensive interpretative study of the historical roots and contemporary functioning of Israel. Nationhood and democracy have not unfolded in a social or political vacuum, but instead developed from pre-state Jewish traditions in Palestine and in Eastern Europe. Dowty elucidates a broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets that have come to comprise the infrastructure of the contemporary political system. His analysis provides a new interpretation of the formation and development of the Israeli nation. This book will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers looking for one book that will give them an intelligent overview of the Jewish state.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index.

The Shaping of Israeli Democracy -- Democracy in Israel -- Jewish Politics -- The Zionist Revolution -- Building a Civic State -- The Filter of Security -- The Erosion of Ideology -- Challenges to Israeli Democracy -- The Communal Split -- Religion and Politics -- Arabs in Israel -- The Impact of the West Bank and Gaza.

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English.

The Jewish State is a comprehensive interpretative study of the historical roots and contemporary functioning of Israel. Nationhood and democracy have not unfolded in a social or political vacuum, but instead developed from pre-state Jewish traditions in Palestine and in Eastern Europe. Dowty elucidates a broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets that have come to comprise the infrastructure of the contemporary political system. His analysis provides a new interpretation of the formation and development of the Israeli nation. This book will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers looking for one book that will give them an intelligent overview of the Jewish state.

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