Evolving Nationalism – Homeland, Identity, and Religion in Israel, 1925–2005

Evolving NationalismHomeland, Identity, and Religion in Israel, 19252005\nAuthor(s): Nadav G. Shelef\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801476754, 978-0801476754\nSynopsis\nEvolving Nationalism examines how the idea of Israel as a nation-state has developed within Zionist and Israeli discourse over the past eight decades. Nadav G. Shelef focuses on the changing ways in which the main nationalist movements answered three distinct questions in their private and public ideological articulations between 1925 and 2005: Where is the \""Land of Israel\""? Who ought to be Israeli? What should the Zionist national mission be? \n\n Framed within broader debates about how and why changes in foundational definitions of the nation occur, Shelef's analysis centers on the mechanisms of ideological change and then subjects them to empirical scrutiny. He thus moves beyond the common but problematic assumptions that suc.