, which for some religious Zionist Jews should never have been divided in the first place. As Stephen Sharot (1991: 257 ) writes: The differentiation in the modern period of what are now termed ‘ethnic’ or ‘national’ components of Jewish identity from
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Dan Avnon, Nitzan Lebovic, Raymond Cohen, Elie Friedman, Sara Helman, Gad Barzilai, and Ari Ariel
hands. The rise of the PLO coincided with the glorification of armed struggle, the portrayal of Palestinians as eternal victims of both Israel and the Arab states, and attempts to create a national identity within various refugee communities. This
Dan Rabinowitz, Russell Stone, Guy Ben-Porat, Paul Scham, Wilhelm Kempf, Lior Libman, and Asaf Sharabi
figures indicate overall numbers for Jews and Palestinians worldwide. They were gleaned from Wikipedia (accessed January 2017). Orit Rozin , A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State (Waltham, MA: Brandeis
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republicanism, this national community is understood as a pre-political community with a shared language, shared associations, a shared history, a common culture, and cohesive institutions. According to this tradition, national identity is based on descent (jus
Ken Stein, Yael Berda, Galia Golan, Pnina Peri, Yuval Benziman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Muzna Awayed-Bishara, and Aziza Khazzoom
actually accepting that the other group is also part of the individual’s identity. The ‘self’ in the Hebrew autobiographies is comprised not only of the mainstream stereotypical national narrative, but of other opposing dimensions as well. This complexity
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Rights in Israel: Constitutional Rhetoric and State Practice , and for dessert we present a review of Yael Raviv’s Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel . We hope you enjoy our articles and reviews, and we look forward to
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memory agents. National movements and states in general, and those engaged in territorial conflict in particular, produce selective views of history. Erasing the memory of rival collectives is not an uncommon practice, whether as part of the Israeli
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, Birnbaum’s essay addresses a different issue—namely, how Jews living in France, a ‘strong state’, in which there has been a historical conflation of citizenship and national identities and little room for a multiplicity of collective allegiances, have faced
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political and the critical aspects of the art, focusing only on aesthetic analysis (Azoulay 1992); (2) demonstrating the way in which Israeli art discourse reinforces the national identity and becomes defined by it ( Chinski 2015); and (3) arguing for the
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addresses some of the issues identified above. In “Effects of Religious Identity and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Jewish Electorate,” Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Yasmin Alkalay, and Tom Aival consider this especially topical question, both conceptually and