ISBN:
9780190922740
,
0190922745
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 264 Seiten
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2020
Parallel Title:
Online version Kaye, Alexander The invention of Jewish theocracy
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Theokratie
;
Zionismus
;
Orthodoxes Judentum
;
Israel
;
Religious Zionism / Israel / History
;
Religious Zionism / Philosophy
;
Jewish law
;
Religious Zionists / Israel / Attitudes
;
Judaism and state / Israel
;
Judaism and state
;
Religious Zionism
;
Religious Zionism / Philosophy
;
Religious Zionists / Attitudes
;
Israel
;
History
;
Israel
;
Orthodoxes Judentum
;
Zionismus
;
Theokratie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"This book is about the attempt of Orthodox Jewish Zionists to implement traditional Jewish law (halakha) as the law of the State of Israel. These religious Zionists began their quest for a halakhic sate immediately after Israel's establishment in 1948 and competed for legal supremacy with the majority of Israeli Jews who wanted Israel to be a secular democracy. Although Israel never became a halakhic state, the conflict over legal authority became the backdrop for a pervasive culture war, whose consequences are felt throughout Israeli society until today. The book traces the origins of the legal ideology of religious Zionists and shows how it emerged in the middle of the twentieth century. It further shows that the ideology, far from being endemic to Jewish religious tradition as its proponents claim, is a version of modern European jurisprudence, in which a centralized state asserts total control over the legal hierarchy within its borders. The book shows how the adoption (conscious or not) of modern jurisprudence has shaped religious attitudes to many aspects of Israeli society and politics, created an ongoing antagonism with the state's civil courts, and led to the creation of a new and increasingly powerful state rabbinate. This account is placed into wider conversations about the place of religion in democracies and the fate of secularism in the modern world. It concludes with suggestions about how a better knowledge of the history of religion and law in Israel may help ease tensions between its religious and secular citizens"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Halakhic state -- The pluralist roots of religious Zionism -- Isaac Herzog before Palestine -- A constitution for Israel according to the Torah -- Modernizing the Chief Rabbinate -- Failure an resistance -- "Gentile courts" in a Jewish state -- The persistence of Jewish theocracy
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