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...

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主要作者: Shenhav, Yehouda (Author)
格式: Print Article
語言:English
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出版: Blackwell 2003
In: Nations and nationalism
Year: 2003, 卷: 9, 發布: 4, Pages: 511-531
Further subjects:B 政治文化
B Arabische Staaten
B Arabische Länder 宗教 政治文化 錫安主義 猶太人 Nationale Identität
B 宗教
B 錫安主義
B 猶太人
B 民族意識
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總結: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)
ISSN:1354-5078
Contains:In: Nations and nationalism