Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity The Secular-Religious Impasse

Name: Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity The Secular-Religious Impasse
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ISBN: 9780801863455

ISBN-10: 0801863457

ISBN-13: 9780801863455

Edition: 2000

Authors: Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser

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Since the 1980s, relationships between secular and religious Israelis have gone from bad to worse. What was formerly a politics of accommodation, one whose main objective was the avoidance of strife through "arrangements" and compromises, has become a winner-take-all, zero-sum game. The conflict is not over who gets what. Rather, it is a conflict over the very character of the polity, a struggle to define Israel's collective character. In Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser show how this transformation has been caused by structural changes in Israel's public sphere. Surveying many different levels of public life, they explore the change of Israel's…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/24/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: From Compromise to Crisis



Religion and State in Israel: A Historical and Conceptual Framework



Consociational Democracy in the First Generation



Old Issues, New Politics: The Second Generation



The Judicial and Constitutional Dimension



Demographic, Cultural, and Religious Changes: Consociationalism under Pressure



The Future of Consociationalism


Notes


Index