Law and Identity in Israel - A Century of Debate

List of contents

Introduction: law as an expression of Jewish culture; Part I. Seeking to Fashion National Law: 1. Law and culture in early Zionist literature; 2. The Hebrew peace courts: the Yishuv judicial system that failed; 3. The Hebrew law society: an abortive attempt to fashion a Jewish-Hebrew national code of law; 4. Why a Jewish-Hebrew system of law was not instituted at independence; 5. A Hebrew constitution for the Jewish state: how did the cultural dispute prevent the promulgation of a written constitution; 6. Jewish law and legislation in Israel; Part II. The Resurgence of Cultural Conflict: 7. Jewish heritage and a Jewish democratic state: the identity discourse returns to the legal debate; 8. The identity turn and the Jewish and democratic state; Part III. Zionism, Democracy, Law, and Culture: 9. Zionism: making and preserving Hebrew culture; 10. Israeli law as a lieu de mémoire of national identity and culture; Conclusion: list of legal cases.

About the author

Nir Kedar is a Professor of law and history at Bar Ilan University, Israel and the Vice President for Academic Affairs of Sapir College in Israel. His main fields of interest are modern legal history, legal and political theory and comparative law. He has published five books and numerous articles including, Mamlakhtiyut: David Ben-Gurion's Civic Thought (Hebrew) (2009), which won the 2009 Shapiro Prize for Best Book on Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Nir Kedar, Nir (Bar-Ilan University Kedar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108484350
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48435-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and J; Cambridge Studies in Law and Judaism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Israel, LAW / General, Systems of law, Judaism, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Systems of law: Jewish Law, Law; Identity; Culture; Religion; Judaism; Israel; Zionism