Law and identity in Israel : a century of debate

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Law and identity in Israel : a century of debate

Title remainder

a century of debate

Statement of responsibility

Nir Kedar ; translated by Haim Watzman

Creator

• Kedar, Nir,

Contributor

• Watzman, Haim

Translator

• Watzman, Haim

Subject

• Constitutional law -- Israel
• Democracy -- Israel
• Jewish nationalism -- Israel
• Judaism and state -- Israel
• Law -- Israel
• Zionism and Judaism

Language

• eng
• heb
• eng

Summary

What makes Israeli law Israeli? Why is the word 'Jewish' almost entirely absent from Israeli legislation? How did Israel succeed in eluding a futile and dangerous debate over identity, and construct a progressive, independent, original and sophisticated legal system? Law and Identity in Israel attempts to answer these questions by looking at the complex bond between Zionism and the Jewish culture. Forging an original and 'authentic' Israeli law that would be an expression and encapsulation of Israeli-Jewish identity has been the goal of many Jewish and Zionist jurists as well as public leaders for the past century. This book chronicles and analyzes these efforts, and in the process tackles the complex meaning of Judaism in modern times as a religion, a culture, and a nationality. Nir Kedar examines the challenges and difficulties of expressing Judaism, or transplanting it into, the laws of the state of Israel.--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in law and Judaism
• Mishpaṭ kaḥol-lavan

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in law and Judaism
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks