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Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse by Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser (Hardcover, 2000)

Since the 1980s, relationships between secular and religious Israelis have gone from bad to worse. What was formerly a politics of accommodation, one whose main objective was the avoidance of strife through arrangements and compromises, has become a winner-take-all, zero-sum game. The conflict is not over who takes what, rather, it is a conflict over the very character of the policy, a struggle to define Israel's collective character. In this study, the authors show how this transformation has been caused by structural changes in Israel's public sphere. Surverying many different levels of public life, they explore the change of Israel's politics from a dominant-party system to a balanced two-camp system. They trace the rise of the Haredi parties and the growing consonance of religiosity with right-wing politics. Other topics include the new Basic Laws on Freedom, Dignity and Occupation; the effects of massive immigration of secular Jews from the former Soviet Union; the greater emphasis on liberal good government ; and the rise of an aggressive investigative press and electronic media.

Author
Asher Cohen, Bernard Susser
Publication Name
Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: the Secular-Religious Impasse
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
184 Pages

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