Zionism and Judaism
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Zionism and Judaism

A New Theory

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Zionism and Judaism

A New Theory

About this book

Why should anyone be a Zionist, a supporter of a Jewish state in the land of Israel? Why should there be a Jewish state in the land of Israel? This book seeks to provide a philosophical answer to these questions. Although a Zionist need not be Jewish, nonetheless this book argues that Zionism is only a coherent political stance when it is intelligently rooted in Judaism, especially in the classical Jewish doctrine of God's election of the people of Israel and the commandment to them to settle the land of Israel. The religious Zionism advocated here is contrasted with secular versions of Zionism that take Zionism to be a replacement of Judaism. It is also contrasted with versions of religious Zionism that ascribe messianic significance to the State of Israel, or which see the main task of religious Zionism to be the establishment of an Israeli theocracy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Table of contents
  7. Preface
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Why Zionism?
  11. 2 Was Spinoza the First Zionist?
  12. 3 Secular Zionism: Political or Cultural?
  13. 4 Should Israel Be a Theocracy?
  14. 5 Why the Jews and Why the Land of Israel?
  15. 6 Can the State of Israel Be Both Jewish and Democratic?
  16. 7 What Could Be the Status of Non-Jews in a Jewish State?
  17. 8 What Is the Connection Between the Holocaust and the State of Israel?
  18. Index