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Summary:

"Evolving Nationalism examines how the idea of Israel as a nation-state has developed within Zionist and Israeli discourse over the past eight decades. Nadav G. Shelef focuses on the changing ways in which the main nationalist movements answered three distinct questions in their private and public ideological articulations between 1925 and 2005. Framed within broader debates about how and why changes in foundational definitions of the nation occur, Shelef's analysis centers on the mechanisms of ideological change and then subjects them to empirical scrutiny. He thus moves beyond the common but problematic assumptions that such transformations must be either a rare, rational adaptation to traumatic shock or a relatively constant product of manipulation by power-hungry elites. He finds that nationalist movements, including radical and religious fundamentalist ones, can and do change cardinal components of their ideological beliefs in both moderating and radicalizing directions"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Labor Zionist mapping of the homeland
• Religious Zionist mapping of the homeland
• Revisionist Zionist mapping of the homeland
• Transformations of the collective mission
• Arabs and diaspora Jews in Israeli national identity
• Ongoing transformations of Israeli nationalism
• Nationalism and the question of change.

Author/Creator:

Shelef, Nadav G. (Nadav Gershon), 1974- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Evolving nationalism: homeland, identity, and religion in Israel, 1925-2005 [by Shelef, N.G.]

Subjects:

Nationalism — Israel

Jews — Israel — Identity

National characteristics, Israeli

Judaism and state — Israel

Cartography — Israel

Israel — Boundaries

Israelis

Nationalism

Jews — Identity

Jews

Judaism and state

Cartography

Boundaries

Israel

Middle East — Palestine

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Donated from the Rene and Jimmy Wisch Jewish Studies Collection.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

DS113.3 .S57 2010

ISBNs:

0801476755 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780801476754 (pbk., alk. paper)
0801448700 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780801448706 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010005561

OCLC Numbers:

521753899