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The Jewish State Yoram Hazony ISRAEL ZIONISM ZIONIST
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The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul is a powerful assessment of "post-Zionist" Israeli culture--the Jewish movement that seeks to overturn traditional n...Read more
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul by Yoram Hazony (2000, Hardcover)
Author: Yoram HazonyPublisher: Basic BooksLanguage: English
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Historian Hazony looks back at Zionism and its dreams and goals, and at the struggle to make a Jewish homeland a reality, and finds that contemporary Israeli leaders seem strangely uncomfortable with the very idea of a Jewish state.
Publisher's Note
Argues that Post-Zionism, a cultural and political revolt, is aiming to dismantle Israel's legal and moral standing as the Jewish state.
In what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays the cultural and political revolt against Israel's status as the Jewish state. Examining ideological trends in academia, literature, media, law, the armed forces, and the foreign policy establishment, Hazony contends that Israelis are preparing themselves for the final break with the Jewish past and the Jewish future. In a dramatic new reading of Israeli history, Hazony uncovers the story of how Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and other German-Jewish intellectuals bitterly fought against the establishment of Israel, and later used the Hebrew University as a base for deposing David Ben-Gurion and discrediting Labor Zionism. THE JEWISH STATE is a must-read for anyone concerned with Israel's present and future.
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"[T]he book contains much that is valuable and illuminating....[Hazony] takes the reader on an unusual journey through the intellectual and cultural landscape of Israel and the historical minefields of Zionism....Few people who read this book will be neutral about it."
New York Times Book Review - Walter Reich (06/18/2000)
Historian Hazony looks back at Zionism and its dreams and goals, and at the struggle to make a Jewish homeland a reality, and finds that contemporary Israeli leaders seem strangely uncomfortable with the very idea of a Jewish state.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | Yoram Hazony |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 0465029019 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780465029013 |
| Size | |
| Length: | 433 pages |
| Height: | 9.8 in |
| Width: | 7 in |
| Thickness: | 1.5 in |
| Weight: | 28 oz |
Publisher's Note
Argues that Post-Zionism, a cultural and political revolt, is aiming to dismantle Israel's legal and moral standing as the Jewish state.
In what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays the cultural and political revolt against Israel's status as the Jewish state. Examining ideological trends in academia, literature, media, law, the armed forces, and the foreign policy establishment, Hazony contends that Israelis are preparing themselves for the final break with the Jewish past and the Jewish future. In a dramatic new reading of Israeli history, Hazony uncovers the story of how Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and other German-Jewish intellectuals bitterly fought against the establishment of Israel, and later used the Hebrew University as a base for deposing David Ben-Gurion and discrediting Labor Zionism. THE JEWISH STATE is a must-read for anyone concerned with Israel's present and future.
Industry Reviews
New York Times Book Review - Walter Reich (06/18/2000)
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The Jewish State Yoram Hazony ISRAEL ZIONISM ZIONIST
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) The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul is a powerful assessment of "post-Zionist" Israeli culture--the Jewish movement that seeks to overturn traditional notions of Israel as a Jewish state. Author Yoram Hazony, who has been a participant in some of the most significant stages of the Middle East peace process, investigates the cultural and political history of post-Zionism, the extent of its current influence, and its potential effects in the future. The Jewish State includes a previously unknown story about some of this century's most important Jewish intellectuals--including Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, and Gershom Scholem--who opposed the establishment of Israel, and later leveraged the power of Hebrew University to depose David Ben-Gurion and defame the Labor Zionism that helped give birth to Israel. Hazony imagines that a few individuals with more sensible ideas, better attuned to the desires of Israel's people, might be able to reestablish that nation "as a guardian of the Jews and a source of strength to them.
Historian Hazony looks back at Zionism and its dreams and goals, and at the struggle to make a Jewish homeland a reality, and finds that contemporary Israeli leaders seem strangely uncomfortable with the very idea of a Jewish state. The reason being that the Zionist movements' present day leaders and thinkers are former socialists and leftists. They are trying to "modernize" Judaism by reinventing it into a quasi religion whose tennets of faith revolve around democracy, blindness to reality (that the arabs have no desire for peace, only "piece by piece") and western wishy washy relativism which when placed into the hands of people who believe that their version AND ONLY THEIR VERSION is right cause a government to institutionalize suicide for the state in slow stages. Such was the way of Rabin, barak, Peres, Sharon and now Olmert.
Hazony shows why these leaders are uncomfortable with classical Judaism and historical Zionism.
Historian Hazony looks back at Zionism and its dreams and goals, and at the struggle to make a Jewish homeland a reality, and finds that contemporary Israeli leaders seem strangely uncomfortable with the very idea of a Jewish state. The reason being that the Zionist movements' present day leaders and thinkers are former socialists and leftists. They are trying to "modernize" Judaism by reinventing it into a quasi religion whose tennets of faith revolve around democracy, blindness to reality (that the arabs have no desire for peace, only "piece by piece") and western wishy washy relativism which when placed into the hands of people who believe that their version AND ONLY THEIR VERSION is right cause a government to institutionalize suicide for the state in slow stages. Such was the way of Rabin, barak, Peres, Sharon and now Olmert.
Hazony shows why these leaders are uncomfortable with classical Judaism and historical Zionism.
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