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Israel, World Jewry, and Nationality in a Global Era

Israel, World Jewry, and Nationality in a Global Era. SIS 150 Lecture 19 Noam Pianko. In Preparation for the Final Class…. On the index card provided, write one outstanding question pertaining to this course that you would like addressed in the final lecture. Announcements.

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Israel, World Jewry, and Nationality in a Global Era

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  1. Israel, World Jewry, and Nationality in a Global Era SIS 150 Lecture 19 Noam Pianko

  2. In Preparation for the Final Class… • On the index card provided, write one outstanding question pertaining to this course that you would like addressed in the final lecture

  3. Announcements • Lecture “The Women’s Movement and Religious/Secular Conflict in Israel” • 7pm 220 Kane Hall • Extra Credit • Final Exam: • Wednesday, March 19, 4:30-6:30 • Gowan 301 • Review Sheet Available on Thursday

  4. “Our Celebration Too?” • Walk the Land Video

  5. We are One? • Attachment of U.S. Jews to Israel Falling • Israelis no longer need U.S. Support • Divergent Organizational Principles

  6. Today’s Goals: “We are One” or “Divergent Cultures?” • What is the role, past and present, that Israel plays for World Jewry and vice-versa? • How do constructions of World Jewry and the Israel-diaspora relationship reflect each communities organization principles? • What does the case of World Jewry teach us about collective identity in a global era?

  7. Negation of the Diaspora • “This is the doctrine of the [Zionist] revolution. Not surrendering to the Galut but making an end of it. Galut means dependence - material, political, spiritual, cultural and intellectual dependence - because we are aliens, a minority, bereft of a homeland... Our task is to break radically with this dependence and to become masters of our own fate - in a word, to achieve independence.”-Ben Gurion • “The State of Israel” or “The Land of Israel?”

  8. Enduring Trope • “What reveals itself here is behavior of a clearly neurotic sort: the nation hates the golah and dreams of Eretz Israel, the nation rejects exile at all levels of its authentic spiritual activity, but at the same time all its historical activity is preoccupied with one end: how to endure in exile, how to continue to maintain this hated existence…” • A.B. Yehoshua

  9. Other Options • “Picture Klal Yisrael as an ellipse with two foci, Israel and Diaspora or “two that are one.” Shimon Rawidowicz • “Zion is a cultural center radiating life-giving impulses to an ongoing Diaspora… a symbolic circle with a center in Israel and a circumference in the Diaspora” Ahad Ha-am

  10. The Limits of Negation of the Exile… • What role does American Jewish community play?

  11. American Jewish Support • Financial support through Jewish Federations and philanthropy • Lobby U.S. Government

  12. Post-Oslo Transformations • Israel no longer needs U.S. Support • Rabin, AIPAC, and the Peace Process • Finance Minister: Israel Bonds Anachronism • Yossi Beilin-Channel Funds to Jewish Education in the Diaspora

  13. Israeli Diaspora and the Global Allure • Israel in Silicon Valley

  14. Zionists and Anti-Zionists1897-1948 • Religion or Nation? • Americanization and Dual Loyalty Question

  15. Zionism is Consistent with American Patriotism • “Every American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will likewise be a better man and a better American.” Judge Louis Brandeis. 1915

  16. American Jews and Israel1948-1967 • Euphoria of Statehood • Emergence of Holocaust as Central Symbol • American Attitudinal Changes • Identity Politics • 1967 War and Vietnam • Cold War Partnership • Exodus and the Israeli Hero

  17. Pro-Israel Consensus • Israel needs Diaspora Support • Potential Refuge for Persecuted Jews • Shield against Assimilation • Jewish Vulnerability as Basis of Collective Identity

  18. Changing Perception of Israel • Peoplehood to the “Sovereign Self” • “Tikkun Olam” and Tanks • Intellectual Critique of American Jewish Support of Israel • Divergent Cultures-Israeli and American Jewish

  19. The Power of Diaspora • “Indeed, we would suggest that Diaspora, and not monotheism, may be the most important contribution that Judaism has to make to the world… Diaspora can teach us that it is possible for a people to maintain its distinctive culture, its difference, without controlling land, without controlling other people or developing a need to dispossess them of their lands.” Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin

  20. America is the Promised Land • “It’s time to say that America is a better place to be a Jew than Jerusalem. If ever there was a promised land, we Jewish Americans are living in it.”-Jacob Neusner

  21. Is Israel-American Jewry Relationship Unique? • How it it similar/different from other immigrant groups? • What does enduring attachment teach about collective membership today?

  22. Response to Decreased Attachment • Birthright Israel • Israel Education • Branding Israel

  23. Toward a Global Jewry • Challenge Central Narratives • From Ideology to Human Networks • Acknowledge Multiple Centers

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