Summary
Israeli political scientist (1933–) for whom, in Amar-Dahl’s account, the Jewish state preserves collective Jewish existence against assimilation (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.15).
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The state takes over the role of traditional diaspora centres preserving ‘collective Judaism’; ‘Only the Jewish state, and not religion, can serve as a common denominator […] for all the heterogeneous factors of Jewish existence’ (1999: 251–252, PDF p.15).
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Ha’am quoted via Avineri 1999: 135 (PDF p.21).
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The state is not a substitute for Jewish religion, which already has a deeply collectively-existentialist meaning for the faithful; it responds to the assimilation danger brought by secularization (PDF p.15).