ABSTRACTS

Jewish-Israeli Identity A Debate Eliezer Schweid The Jewish society in Israel faces in our era a critical decision between the new 'Israeli' national-political identity and the historical ethnical-cultural Jewish identity . In this essay the author examines and evaluates the two alternatives . Deciding against the first and for the second he recommends ways of . educational and cultural confrontation with the crisis Yehoshua Porath The Founding Fathers of Zionism realized that the only way for the Jews to continue to exist as a collective entity was to transform the Jewish people into a normal nation , in its own land and to renew its national culture . However , only a fraction of the Jews have chosen this solution . Another part of the people continues to live according to traditional religious values , while others prefer to assimilate , to various degrees among other nations . Due to these differences , the breach between the Jewish Israelis and the rest of the Jewish people is con...  אל הספר
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