Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises

by Akiva Orr

Overview

Are Judaism and Zionism inseparable? Not all Jews are Zionists; many Jews are anti-Zionists. Yet, for many other Jews, the very nature of being Jewish in the modern world is at the heart of being Zionist. Avika Orr examines the politics and ideology of Zionism and the sociology of Israel. Orr demystifies the concepts of the 'Jewish state' and the 'state of the Jews' and explores three key topics: Israeli politics, Jewish identity and socialist policy on the national question.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745307671
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	08/20/1994
Series:	Pluto Middle Eastern Series
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.46(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher Gair is a lecturer in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels (Edwin Mullen Press, 1997), of The American Counterculture (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and of numerous essays on American literature and culture. He is the editor of the journal Symbiosis.