Title: Jewish state or Israeli nation?
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Zionism, Philosophy, Jews, Identity, Israel, politics and government, Zionism--philosophy, Israelis--identity, Ds149 .e9313 1995, 320.5/4/095694, Israelis
Places: Israel
LC classification: DS149 .E9313 1995