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The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul Book

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 (They opposed the establishment of Israel, and later leveraged the power of Hebrew University to depose David Ben-Gurion and defame the Labour Zionism that helped give birth to Israel). Ironically, Hazony takes succour from this story because he says that it offers "the lesson of how a small fellowship of intellectuals, without the benefit of exceptionally sensible ideas or especially cogent means of expressing them, nonetheless succeeded in changing the life of a nation, against all odds". So, Hazony imagines that a few individuals with more sensible ideas, better attuned to the desires of Israel's people, might be able to re-establish that nation "as a guardian of the Jews and a source of strength to them". Hazony is a sturdy thinker and a persuasive polemicist, and The Jewish State may prove to be a very influential book. --Ali Perry-GallagherRead More

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  • 0465029019
  • 9780465029013
  • Yoram Hazony
  • 2 May 2000
  • HarperCollins (USA)
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 464
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