Netanel Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 172809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Netanel Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Netanel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9475-1205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Did the Nazis determine who is a Jew? Jewish identity, Holocaust remembrance and the true story behind Israel’s law of return
The idea that the Nazis dictated (retrospectively) who should be considered a Jew in the State of Israel is widespread. Apparent similarities between Nuremberg and Israel’s Law of Return have reinforced the claim that anti-Semitism is the basis for defining Israel’s Jewishness. This study’s primary goal is to refute this prevailing false understanding by demonstrating how Israel’s Jewishness was not based on the reversal of Nazi laws but on posit…
Dynamic Ethnonationalism
The purpose of this research is to present a new model for understanding ethnonationalism: the dynamic ethnonationalism model, which depicts ethnic nationalism as an entity comprised of inherited elements as well as selective and changing ones. According to this new concept, ethnic nationalism, which is usually thought of as a "closed" given kinship, also has a flexible and voluntary nature, similar yet not identical to civic nationalism. Ethnic …
Kant and Schelling on Blumenbach’s formative drive
Blumenbach’s epigenetic theory, particularly his concept of the formative drive, was appropriated by both Kant and Schelling. Kant’s third Critique endorsement of Blumenbach’s formative drive shows him to be close to Schelling’s conception of nature, since it is evidence of his distance from an artifactual conception of teleology. Schelling also draws on this concept of the formative drive, making the structures operative in the formative drive t…
Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics
Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics Rachel Zuckert Cambridge University Press. 2019. pp. 276. £75.00 (hbk) Naomi Fisher Naomi Fisher Loyola University Chicago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 115–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa026 Published: 01 August 2020
Secularization of immigration policy vs. religion's influence on integration
This article deals with the complex relationship between religion and immigration in Western countries, with an emphasis on Israel. The main argument it presents is that the legal procedures of immigration, i.e. laws relating to the acquisition of civil status, have undergone dramatic secularization, while religion's influence is expressed in the social and cultural aspects of the integration of immigrants belonging to religious minorities. This …
Israeli” Halakha
This article presents, for the first time in the literature, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s policy on conversion to Judaism during the past seventy years. It focuses on the conversion policy applied to immigrants who are non-Jewish according to Jewish (Orthodox) parameters. The article’s main question is: what was the rabbinical establishment’s policy regarding the conversion of non-Jewish immigrants? Did the Israeli establishment encourage non-Je…
Non-Jewish volunteers in the Kibbutz Movement and the establishment of state conversion in Israel in the 1970s
This article reveals how non-Jewish volunteers who joined kibbutzim in Israel in the early 1970s created a situation that brought about the establishment of an Israeli state conversion system. Contrary to the prevailing idea that issues related to non-Jewish immigrants and conversion became practical and urgent only from the 1990s on, the central argument in this article is that a structured conversion system had already been established 20 years…
Fragmentary Theory of Secularization and Religionization — Changes in the Family Structure as a Case Study
The central claim of this article is that the multi-dimensional changes in the modern family structure may be explained as a manifestation of the simultaneous processes of secularization and religionization. On the one hand, the rising acceptance of secular alternatives to the traditional family structure indicates that modernization processes weaken religious behavior and authority, as the classical secularization thesis has claimed. On the othe…
Integrating non-Jewish immigrants and the formation of Israel's ethnic–civic nationhood
The aim of this article is to outline the development of Israel's citizenship and immigration policy from its inception to the present, emphasizing the invaluable role of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion. We argue that through a series of decisions pertaining to civic registration, immigration and naturalization of non-Jews, Ben Gurion set the fundamental principles of modern Jewish nationhood: on the one hand, he rejected the opti…
The Fundamentalist Dilemma
This article explores the “fundamentalist dilemma,” or how fundamentalist movements participate in secular political systems, especially when they gain prominent political positions that allow them to impose their extreme ideology on the entire society. After analyzing prevailing responses to this dilemma, ranging from political integration to aggressive takeover, the article turns to the case of Israeli Haredim. It explores three models of polit…
A Jewish State? Controversial Conversions and the Dispute Over Israel's Jewish Character
The Fundamentalist Dilemma
This article explores the “fundamentalist dilemma,” or how fundamentalist movements participate in secular political systems, especially when they gain prominent political positions that allow them to impose their extreme ideology on the entire society. After analyzing prevailing responses to this dilemma, ranging from political integration to aggressive takeover, the article turns to the case of Israeli Haredim. It explores three models of polit…
Integrating non-Jewish immigrants and the formation of Israel's ethnic–civic nationhood
The aim of this article is to outline the development of Israel's citizenship and immigration policy from its inception to the present, emphasizing the invaluable role of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion. We argue that through a series of decisions pertaining to civic registration, immigration and naturalization of non-Jews, Ben Gurion set the fundamental principles of modern Jewish nationhood: on the one hand, he rejected the opti…
A Jewish State? Controversial Conversions and the Dispute Over Israel's Jewish Character
Secularization of immigration policy vs. religion's influence on integration
This article deals with the complex relationship between religion and immigration in Western countries, with an emphasis on Israel. The main argument it presents is that the legal procedures of immigration, i.e. laws relating to the acquisition of civil status, have undergone dramatic secularization, while religion's influence is expressed in the social and cultural aspects of the integration of immigrants belonging to religious minorities. This …
Israeli” Halakha
This article presents, for the first time in the literature, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s policy on conversion to Judaism during the past seventy years. It focuses on the conversion policy applied to immigrants who are non-Jewish according to Jewish (Orthodox) parameters. The article’s main question is: what was the rabbinical establishment’s policy regarding the conversion of non-Jewish immigrants? Did the Israeli establishment encourage non-Je…
Fragmentary Theory of Secularization and Religionization — Changes in the Family Structure as a Case Study
The central claim of this article is that the multi-dimensional changes in the modern family structure may be explained as a manifestation of the simultaneous processes of secularization and religionization. On the one hand, the rising acceptance of secular alternatives to the traditional family structure indicates that modernization processes weaken religious behavior and authority, as the classical secularization thesis has claimed. On the othe…
A Jewish State? Controversial Conversions and the Dispute Over Israel's Jewish Character
Integrating non-Jewish immigrants and the formation of Israel's ethnic–civic nationhood
The aim of this article is to outline the development of Israel's citizenship and immigration policy from its inception to the present, emphasizing the invaluable role of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion. We argue that through a series of decisions pertaining to civic registration, immigration and naturalization of non-Jews, Ben Gurion set the fundamental principles of modern Jewish nationhood: on the one hand, he rejected the opti…
The Fundamentalist Dilemma
This article explores the “fundamentalist dilemma,” or how fundamentalist movements participate in secular political systems, especially when they gain prominent political positions that allow them to impose their extreme ideology on the entire society. After analyzing prevailing responses to this dilemma, ranging from political integration to aggressive takeover, the article turns to the case of Israeli Haredim. It explores three models of polit…
Non-Jewish volunteers in the Kibbutz Movement and the establishment of state conversion in Israel in the 1970s
This article reveals how non-Jewish volunteers who joined kibbutzim in Israel in the early 1970s created a situation that brought about the establishment of an Israeli state conversion system. Contrary to the prevailing idea that issues related to non-Jewish immigrants and conversion became practical and urgent only from the 1990s on, the central argument in this article is that a structured conversion system had already been established 20 years…
Fragmentary Theory of Secularization and Religionization — Changes in the Family Structure as a Case Study
The central claim of this article is that the multi-dimensional changes in the modern family structure may be explained as a manifestation of the simultaneous processes of secularization and religionization. On the one hand, the rising acceptance of secular alternatives to the traditional family structure indicates that modernization processes weaken religious behavior and authority, as the classical secularization thesis has claimed. On the othe…
Secularization of immigration policy vs. religion's influence on integration
This article deals with the complex relationship between religion and immigration in Western countries, with an emphasis on Israel. The main argument it presents is that the legal procedures of immigration, i.e. laws relating to the acquisition of civil status, have undergone dramatic secularization, while religion's influence is expressed in the social and cultural aspects of the integration of immigrants belonging to religious minorities. This …
Israeli” Halakha
This article presents, for the first time in the literature, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s policy on conversion to Judaism during the past seventy years. It focuses on the conversion policy applied to immigrants who are non-Jewish according to Jewish (Orthodox) parameters. The article’s main question is: what was the rabbinical establishment’s policy regarding the conversion of non-Jewish immigrants? Did the Israeli establishment encourage non-Je…
Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics
Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics Rachel Zuckert Cambridge University Press. 2019. pp. 276. £75.00 (hbk) Naomi Fisher Naomi Fisher Loyola University Chicago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 115–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa026 Published: 01 August 2020
Kant and Schelling on Blumenbach’s formative drive
Blumenbach’s epigenetic theory, particularly his concept of the formative drive, was appropriated by both Kant and Schelling. Kant’s third Critique endorsement of Blumenbach’s formative drive shows him to be close to Schelling’s conception of nature, since it is evidence of his distance from an artifactual conception of teleology. Schelling also draws on this concept of the formative drive, making the structures operative in the formative drive t…
Dynamic Ethnonationalism
The purpose of this research is to present a new model for understanding ethnonationalism: the dynamic ethnonationalism model, which depicts ethnic nationalism as an entity comprised of inherited elements as well as selective and changing ones. According to this new concept, ethnic nationalism, which is usually thought of as a "closed" given kinship, also has a flexible and voluntary nature, similar yet not identical to civic nationalism. Ethnic …
Did the Nazis determine who is a Jew? Jewish identity, Holocaust remembrance and the true story behind Israel’s law of return
The idea that the Nazis dictated (retrospectively) who should be considered a Jew in the State of Israel is widespread. Apparent similarities between Nuremberg and Israel’s Law of Return have reinforced the claim that anti-Semitism is the basis for defining Israel’s Jewishness. This study’s primary goal is to refute this prevailing false understanding by demonstrating how Israel’s Jewishness was not based on the reversal of Nazi laws but on posit…
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