Law and Identity in Israel
A Century of Debate
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- Author: Nir Kedar, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Date Published: June 2022
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- isbn: 9781108735780
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What makes Israeli law Israeli? Why is the word 'Jewish' almost entirely absent from Israeli legislation? How did Israel succeed in eluding a futile and dangerous debate over identity, and construct a progressive, independent, original and sophisticated legal system? Law and Identity in Israel attempts to answer these questions by looking at the complex bond between Zionism and the Jewish culture. Forging an original and 'authentic' Israeli law that would be an expression and encapsulation of Israeli-Jewish identity has been the goal of many Jewish and Zionist jurists as well as public leaders for the past century. This book chronicles and analyzes these efforts, and in the process tackles the complex meaning of Judaism in modern times as a religion, a culture, and a nationality. Nir Kedar examines the challenges and difficulties of expressing Judaism, or transplanting it into, the laws of the state of Israel.
Read more- Examines the attempts to forge an original and authentic Israeli law that embodies and expresses Israeli-Jewish identity
- Discusses the ways Israeli jurists have found to express Israeli-Jewish identity
- Investigates the Zionist and Israeli meta-cultural debate
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'Kedar's book stands as an important chapter in the study of the history of Israeli law. It provides a valuable overview both for readers who are familiar with this history and also those who are not.' Inbal Blau and Omer Aloni, Comparative Legal History
See more reviews'Kedar's wide-ranging and deeply thought-out book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the discourse concerning questions of national culture and identity within the legal sphere, in general, and the place of Jewish nationalism, Jewish law, and Jewish-Israeli culture in the development of Israeli law, in particular. … Kedar's coherent, clear, and thought-provoking analysis makes this book a significant milestone in the historical and legal research of the issues discussed.' Yehudit Dori Deston, Studies in Contemporary Jewry
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108735780
- length: 238 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.328kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: law as an expression of Jewish culture
Part I. Seeking to Fashion National Law:
1. Law and culture in early Zionist literature
2. The Hebrew peace courts: the Yishuv judicial system that failed
3. The Hebrew law society: an abortive attempt to fashion a Jewish-Hebrew national code of law
4. Why a Jewish-Hebrew system of law was not instituted at independence
5. A Hebrew constitution for the Jewish state: how did the cultural dispute prevent the promulgation of a written constitution
6. Jewish law and legislation in Israel
Part II. The Resurgence of Cultural Conflict:
7. Jewish heritage and a Jewish democratic state: the identity discourse returns to the legal debate
8. The identity turn and the Jewish and democratic state
Part III. Zionism, Democracy, Law, and Culture:
9. Zionism: making and preserving Hebrew culture
10. Israeli law as a lieu de mémoire of national identity and culture
Conclusion: list of legal cases.
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