By Yaacov Yadgar
The query of Jewish sovereignty shapes Jewish id in Israel, the prestige of non-Jews, and family among Israeli and Diaspora Jews, but its effects stay enigmatic. In Sovereign Jews, Yaacov Yadgar highlights the shortcomings of mainstream discourse and gives a singular clarification of Zionist ideology and the Israeli polity. Yadgar argues that secularism’s presumed binary pitting faith opposed to politics is illusory. He exhibits that the main to knowing this alleged dichotomy is Israel’s curiosity in keeping its sovereignty because the countryside of Jews. This creates a necessity to mark a majority of the inhabitants as Jews and to tell apart them from non-Jews. Coupled with the failure to formulate a conceivable substitute nationwide identification (either “Hebrew” or “Israeli”), it leads the ostensibly secular country to use a slim interpretation of Jewish faith as a political instrument for preserving a Jewish majority.
Yaacov Yadgar is Senior Lecturer within the division of Political reviews at Bar-Ilan collage in Israel and the writer of Secularism and faith in Jewish-Israeli Politics: Traditionists and Modernity.
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