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For over half a century, the legitimacy of Israel's existence has been questioned, and Zionism has been the subject of an immense array of objections and criticism. Chaim Gans considers the objections and presents an in-depth philosophical analysis of the justice of Zionism as realized by the state of Israel.

Zionism. --- Jewish nationalism --- Zionism --- Jews --- History. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Identity. --- Israel --- Politics and government. --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Zionist movement --- Nationalism --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Politics and government --- Restoration

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The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European, as opposed to medieval-ghetto-Jewish. In short order, however, the Jewish religious legacy was redefined retrospectively as a historical "culture," with fateful consequences for the conception of Judaism as a humanly- and not only divinely-mandated regime. The conception of Judaism-as-culture took two main forms: an integrative, vernacular Jewish culture that developed in tandem with the integration of Jews into the various nations of western-central Europe and America, and a national Hebrew culture which, though open to the inputs of modern European society, sought to develop a revitalized Jewish national identity that ultimately found expression in the revival of the Jewish homeland and the State of Israel.

Judaism --- Jews --- Zionism --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Identity. --- Philosophy. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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This book is a cumulative analysis of an international, longitudinal study of a tour program which brings Jewish youth from around the world to Israel. It is a case study of the longest running and most thoroughly documented, intentionally organized heritage tour program in existence, including a wealth of data never previously published. Issues central to Jewish studies are explored in depth, including cross-cultural analysis of the impact and meaning of the program in Jewish communities around the world. Additionally, it touches on core issues related to identity in the post-modern era, the sociology of contemporary tourism, and informal education and adolescent psychology and sociology. The book is relevant to researchers, professionals and university students in the fields of Jewish studies and tourism.

Heritage tourism --- Jewish youth --- Jews --- Israel and the diaspora. --- Jewish diaspora --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Youth, Jewish --- Youth --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Travel --- Identity. --- Attitudes toward Israel --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Israel. --- Jewish commuinities. --- Jewish studies. --- Jewish youth. --- experience. --- heritage tour program. --- identity.