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The Jewish state : the struggle for Israel's soul

Author: Yoram Hazony
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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The author describes the cultural and political revolt by Israeli cultural leaders against Israel's legal and moral standing as the state of the Jewish people.
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Hazony, Yoram.
Jewish state.
New York : Basic Books, c2000
(OCoLC)681424114
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Yoram Hazony
ISBN: 0465029019 9780465029013
OCLC Number: 43323748
Notes: "An New Republic book."
Description: xxx, 433 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The Jewish State Doesn't Live Here Anymore xv --
Chapter 1 The Culture Makers Renounce the Idea of the Jewish State 3 --
Chapter 2 The Political Struggle for a Post-Jewish State 39 --
Chapter 3 An Introduction to the History of the Jewish State 77 --
Chapter 4 Theodor Herzl's "Jewish State" Versus Rousseu's Social Contract 81 --
Chapter 5 Herzl As Statesman: The Creation of a Jewish State of Mind 117 --
Chapter 6 The Desperados 157 --
Chapter 7 Martin Buber and the Rejection of the Jewish State 181 --
Chapter 8 The German Intellectuals and the Founding of the Hebrew University 195 --
Chapter 9 The Intellectuals' Assault and Ben-Gurion's Response, 1929-1939 209 --
Chapter 10 The Professors' Struggle Against the Jewish State, 1939-1948 235 --
Chapter 11 Ben-Gurion's Jewish State and Buber's Dissent, 1948-1961 267 --
Chapter 12 The Incubator: The Hebrew University, 1948-1961 285 --
Chapter 13 The Triumph of the Intellectuals 307 --
Epilogue: The Specter of David Ben-Gurion 323 --
Appendix Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 341 --
Archives Consulted 345.
Responsibility: Yoram Hazony.
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The author describes the cultural and political revolt by Israeli cultural leaders against Israel's legal and moral standing as the state of the Jewish people.

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