The cloak, the cage and the fog of sanctity: the Zionist mission and the role of religion among Arab Jews
The author examines the Zionist national mission to mobilize Jewish ethnic communities in Arab countries, in the period preceding the establishment of the state of Israel. It draws on archival texts to trace a phenomenon known in Jewish historiography as 'Shadarut': a voluntary religious p...
| Published in: | Nations and nationalism |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell
2003
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Nations and nationalism
Year: 2003, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 511-531 |
| Further subjects: | B
Political culture
B Jews B Arab countries B Religion B Zionism B Arabische Länder Religion Political culture Zionism Jews Nationale Identität B National consciousness |
| Summary: | The author examines the Zionist national mission to mobilize Jewish ethnic communities in Arab countries, in the period preceding the establishment of the state of Israel. It draws on archival texts to trace a phenomenon known in Jewish historiography as 'Shadarut': a voluntary religious practice of fundraising which was widespread in the Jewish world for hundreds of years. The article shows how this pre-national religious practice (to be labelled 'the cloak') was adopted and incorporated into the Zionist national project ('the cage'), first generating tension between the Jewish religious establishment and the Zionist 'secular' movement, and then blurring the distinction between Judaism as a religion and Judaism as a national identity. (Nations and Nationalism, ECMI) |
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| ISSN: | 1354-5078 |
| Contains: | In: Nations and nationalism
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