Homeland or Holy Land The Canaanite Critique of Israel [Hardcover]

Profound, demanding, but lucid and well organized, Diamonds book is a class act! Choice

... sensitive, magisterial study... Macleans

... a great interest to serious readers. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

... a superb piece of research, empathetic yet clear-headed evaluation. But there is also wit, elegance and personal passion on these scholarly pages. The Jewish Spectator

Homeland or Holy Land? is the study of a man and a movementthe man is Yonatan Ratosh, Hebrew poet and thinker, and the movement is Zionism, the ideological foundation of the Jewish state, Israel.

Important and provocative reading for anyone interested, concerned, or confused by the state of the state of Israel today.

PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I. THE IMPORTANCE OF CANAANISM
II. THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ZIONISM: PARADOX, DIALECTIC, OR SYNCRETISM?
III. YONATAN RATOSH: THE TRANSFORMATION OF URIEL HALPERN
IV. YONATAN RATOSH AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF ZIONISM
V. CANAANISM AND ISRAELI POLITY AND POLICY
VI. CANAANISM AND THE ISRAELI ARTISTIC IMAGINATION
VII. CONCLUSIONS

EXCURSUS: CANAANISM AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ZIONISM: THE CASE FOR A SECULAR ISRAEL

NOTES
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX