Joyce Dalsheim

Israel Has a Jewish Problem

Self-Determination as Self-Elimination

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Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern state of Israel? Israel Has a Jewish Problem is Joyce Dalsheim's argument that self-determination becomes a form of self-elimination as it produces the ethnos for the nation, inevitably narrowing the possible forms of personal and cultural identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780190680251
• ISBN-10: 0190680253
• Artikelnr.: 56755412

Autorenporträt

Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Israel/Palestine studying controversies over historical narratives, nationalism, religiosity, and the secular. Her previous publications include Unsettling Gaza: Secular Liberalism, Radical Religion, and the Israeli Settlement Project (OUP, 2011) and Producing Spoilers: Peacemaking and the Production of Enmity in a Secular Age (OUP 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Terms
Introduction
1. Before the Law
2. On Goat Surveillance
3. The False Promises of Sovereignty
4. Self-Elimination
5. Is Israel a Christian State?
6. The Jewish Question Again
Bibliography
Notes
Index