Description: "What does it mean for Israel to be a Jewish state? What is Zionism's relation to Judaism? And what happens to Judaism when it is "nationalized", i.e., read, interpreted, and practiced in a manner that serves the interests of the modern, sovereign nation-state? These questions and others that derive from them are at the center of To Be a Jewish State"--
Brief description: Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East.
Review Quotes: "Powerfully pushes the analysis of what the Jewish tradition has to do with the Jews' State, which is not the same as the 'Jewish State.' Yadgar brilliantly interprets Zionism's supersessionist logic and how it unfolds within Jewish Israeli theopolitics. This book transcends Israel Studies. It is a must-read for those interested in religion and the production of political meanings, modernity, and the cutting edges of political theology."--Atalia Omer, author of Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding