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Israel in History - The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
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Israel in History - The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
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The comparative dimension is, all too often, missing from writing
on Israeli history. Zionist ideology restricts comparisons between
Zionism and other forms of nationalism. Also, Zionist claims to
have initiated a radical rupture with the Jewish past mask
continuities between Israel and the experiences of modern diaspora
Jewry. Over the past two decades, Israeli historiography has become
more critical, and a number of books have presented Israel as a
variant of settler-colonialist societies such as the United States
and South Africa. The framework of continuity across space commands
attention, but it lacks nuance and is often built upon politicized
foundations. Moreover, this framework neglects areas of continuity
across time, between Israel and the Jewish past.
"Israel in History: The Jewish State in" "Comparative Perspective"
seeks to address these issues. The essays in this book combine a
variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish
civilization and extending throughout the world. These frameworks
include:
- modern Jewish society, politics and culture
- historical consciousness in the 20th-century western world, and
the matrix of Western colonialism,
- Third World anti-colonialism and post-colonial state-building.
The book's underlying theme is the need to study Israeli history
within multiple and overlapping comparative frameworks. The benefit
of comparison is not limited to a richer understanding of the
circumstances under which Israel was born and has developed.
Rather, an open-ended, comparative approach offers a useful means
of correcting the biases found in so much scholarship on Israel, be
it sympathetic or hostile. "Israel in History: The JewishState in
Comparative Perspective" will appeal to scholars and students with
research interests in Middle East studies and Israeli history.
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