The Colonies of Law Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine [Hardcover]

This book traces attempts to establish a non-religious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine.This book traces attempts of Jewish jurists nationalists to establish a non-religious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine. The book analyzes the secular, national and anti-colonial ideology of the Hebrew Law of Peace and shows that Jewish religious groups, secular lawyers and leading Zionist institutions undermined the Hebrew Law project. The book explores the reluctance of leading Zionists to allow communities, rather than organized quasi-state institutions, to define the trajectory of Jewish nationalism.This book traces attempts of Jewish jurists nationalists to establish a non-religious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine. The book analyzes the secular, national and anti-colonial ideology of the Hebrew Law of Peace and shows that Jewish religious groups, secular lawyers and leading Zionist institutions undermined the Hebrew Law project. The book explores the reluctance of leading Zionists to allow communities, rather than organized quasi-state institutions, to define the trajectory of Jewish nationalism.This book traces attempts of Jewish jurists-nationalists to establish a nonreligious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine. The book analyzes the secular, national and anticolonial ideology of the Hebrew Law of Peace and shows that Jewish religious groups, secular lawyers and leading Zionist institutions undermined the Hebrew Law project. The book explores the reluctance of leading Zionists to allow communities, rather than organized quasi-state institutions, to define the trajectory of Jewish nationalism.1. Mandatory Palestine: the enigma of the missing colonial state; 2. Whose tradition?: imageries of the past in Hebrew law; 3. State law and communal justice; 4. Celebrating authenticity and practising hybridity; 5. Nationalism as a disciplinary regime; 6. Lawyering the nation; 7. Nation-building and the containment lÓr