TY - BOOK ID - 85479324 TI - Law and identity in Israel : a century of debate AU - Kedar, Nir AU - Watzman, Haim PY - 2019 SN - 1108638392 1108670229 1108484352 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Constitutional law KW - Democracy KW - Judaism and state KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Zionism and Judaism KW - Jews KW - Nationalism KW - Judaism and Zionism KW - Judaism KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85479324 AB - 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. ER -