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What is Modern Israel?

Categorie	Israël & Judaica
Boeknummer	#258409
Titel	What is Modern Israel?
Auteur	Rabkin, Yakov M.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Pluto Press
Jaar van uitgave	2016
ISBN10	0745335810
ISBN13	9780745335810
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, Yakov Rabkin points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, in order to explain the particular support Israel musters in the United States. Drawing on many overlooked pages of history, including English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian sources, Yakov Rabkin shows that Zionism was conceived as a sharp break with Judaism and Jewish continuity. Israel's past and present must be seen in the context of European ethnic nationalism, colonial expansion and geopolitical interests, rather th... (Lees verder)an as an incarnation of Biblical prophecies or a culmination of Jewish history.
Pagina's	228
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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