Jewish State or Israeli Nation?

<p>. . . an excellent book . . . provides valuable insights into a broad range of cutting-edge topics in the social sciences such as ethnic and identity politics nation building transnationalism and diasporas. --Choice<br /><br />This book will take its place as a classic in the field . . . --Journal of Church and State<br /><br /> . . . a lucid formulation of post-Zionist ideology for the generation of the 1980s and 1990s. --International Journal of Middle East Studies<br /><br />It is . . . a remarkable experience to read Evron's thoughtful book. He finds much to criticize in the conventional reading of Jewish history and argues that Israel should be thought of not as a state for the Jewish people but as a territorial state much like others with full rights for all its inhabitants. --Foreign Affairs<br /><br /> . . . an extremely erudite brilliant and powerful book with a novel approach: a sober secular conception of Judaism. --Maariv<br /><br />A provocative post-Zionist critique of the fundamental concepts of Jewish peoplehood Zionism and Israeli nationalism. --Choice<br /><br />This compelling book conveys the reader straight to the frontline of the<br />battle raging in Israel over the proper boundaries of the national<br />identity. Evron's radical post-Zionist critique of Israel's conceptual<br />foundations calls in question the core link between Israel and Judaism and<br />between Israel and the Jewish diaspora. His penetrating analysis<br />challenges the muddled ideological bearings of Israel's public<br />self-images and points the way toward what may be a more realistic<br />adaptation to its Middle Eastern environment. --Noah Lucas Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies<br /><br />Boas Evron is one of the most important and innovative contemporary Jewish-Israeli thinkers and writers. . . . For the English-speaking reader Evron's book is a unique opportunity to understand the new secular Israeli nationalism written by one of its most critical yet optimistic representatives. --Baruch Kimmerling The Hebrew University<br /><br />Boas Evron concludes that Israel should become a territorial state that would accommodate its sizeable non-Jewish minority in a truly democratic way.</p>