Jewish state or Israeli nation?
By: Boas Evron.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Zionism -- Philosophy.; Jews -- Israel -- Identity.; Israel -- Politics and government.
Description: Boas Evron traces the violent fissures in Israeli society to a basic incompatibility between the concept of a democratic, secular state, on the one hand, and an integral nation defined on a religious basis, on the other. Surveying the full sweep of Jewish history, Evron argues that the Jews were never a territorial nation. Judaism is instead a religious civilization for which the diaspora was not a historical coincidence but a necessary condition of its existence.

He concludes that Israel should become a territorial state accommodating its sizeable non-Jewish minority in a truly democratic way.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.