Yuval Jobani
Biographic Data
| ID | 460706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuval Jobani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuval |
| FAMILY NAME | Jobani |
| SIGNATURE | JOBANI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0561-8144 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Charismatic seeker: A.D. Gordon in the eyes of his contemporaries and in his own eyes
Gordon enchanted and fascinated those around him. The young pioneers of the Second Aliyah, among whom he lived and worked, looked up to him as a guide and teacher – many even saw in him a prophet. Yet despite Gordon's magnetic charisma, most of his views and teachings were rejected as impractical even by the pioneers who admired him. The common Weberian association between charisma and authority, led scholars to conclude that Gordon's charisma fa…
The First Jewish Environmentalist: The Green Philosophy of A.D. Gordon
Hailed by Martin Buber as "the true teacher," pioneer, philosopher, and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (Russian Empire-Land of Israel, 1856-1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon warned against the mounting dangers of human assault on nature and urged us to open ourselves to nature and re-attune to it. Rather than trying to conquer nature, Gordon argued, …
What Led Gordon to Compose Man and Nature? Gordon's Neglected Criticism of Metmann's Life and Nature (1909)
Governing the Sacred: A Critical Typology of Models of Political Toleration in Contested Sacred Sites
Contested sacred sites pose an overlooked challenge for theorists of political toleration. Holy sites are often at the center of contestation between different groups regarding ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct. Two questions are posed, first, how to conceptualize ‘contested sacred sites’? Second, what are the historical-political arrangements used to govern such contested sacred sites, that can be adopted by democrat…
Concluding Remarks
The conclusion underscores the impressive achievements of the Women of the Wall in their long struggle, of which arguably the most distinctive is leading the Israeli government and courts to make substantial changes in the prayer arrangements and physical reality at the Western Wall, the most sacred prayer site for Jews worldwide. It should be noted that when the WoW began their struggle (1988), the idea of establishing the egalitarian third plaz…
Women of the Wall in Focus
This chapter explores the Women of the Wall (WoW) struggle from various perspectives in order to provide a clear picture of this complex conflict. It opens with an in-depth Halakhic analysis of the religious-feminist challenge that the WoW pose to the patriarchy of mainstream Jewish Orthodoxy. It then situates the WoW struggle in the framework of Israel’s complex religion-state arrangement and critically examines the various rulings that the Isra…
Laying the Groundworks
The chapter opens with a categorization of the Western Wall as a “thick site.” Echoing Geertz’s “thick-description” approach, this new concept denotes a site typically but not necessarily religious, which is loaded with different and incompatible meanings attributed to it by different agents. From these agents’ perspective, such meanings are highly significant, and consequently, these sites are irreplaceable. This conceptualization elucidates the…
The Dominant Culture View and the Women of the Wall
This chapter analyses the dominant culture view (DCV), which argues that, in any given country, majorities can legitimately advance their religious traditions and shared cultural understandings through the acts of the government, so long as such shared understandings and traditions are effectively demonstrated and present, and their advancement by the state does not violate the rights of minority groups. The dominant culture view thus identifies …
Privatization, Thick Sites, and the Women of the Wall
This chapter analyzes the model of privatization, which keeps the state unaffiliated with any given denomination via a strict “hands off” approach toward religions. It attempts to reduce governmental entanglement with religion both by strictly limiting the role religion can play in political institutions and by respecting the autonomy of religions. It examines the applicability of privatization to thick sites in general and the Western Wall in pa…
Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
For more than twenty-five years, the Women of the Western Wall (WoW) have been leading a groundbreaking struggle, attempting to gain permission from Israeli authorities to pray according to their manner at Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the Western Wall. The WoW’s determined activism has gained widespread media coverage. This book is the first comprehensive academic study of their struggle, and it seeks to place it in a comparative and theoretica…
The Lure of Heresy: A Philosophical Typology of Hebrew Secularism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Contemporary study of Jewish secularism in the Modern era has yielded a nuanced picture of Hebrew secularism. This article analyzes the emergence of a rich and diverse cultural infrastructure of Hebrew secularism in the first half of the twentieth century from a philosophical perspective, proposing a typology of models of Hebrew secularism. These models are characterized by their attitudes to what, following Charles Taylor, can be referred to as …
In the Convoy and Alongside It: A Study of S. Yizhar’s Works on Education and Literature
The Secular University and Its Critics
Women of the Wall: A Normative Analysis of the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere
The place of religion in the public sphere is a controversial issue, and scholarly opinions differ, from insisting on a public sphere that reflects the religion of the majority, to those who insist on it being religion-free. Using the method of inquiry of contextual political theory, we examine the struggle of the Women of Wall (WoW) to pray collectively at the Western Wall. Their struggle began in 1988, and by 2013 includes many Courts decision,…
Toleration and illiberal groups in context: Israel's ultra-orthodox ‘society of learners
This article aims to demonstrate the virtues of the contextual approach to political theory through an examination of a well-known question: should liberal states tolerate illiberal groups? This question will be analysed via the illustrative case of the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews' request to win an exemption from mandatory military conscription. We aim to demonstrate how a careful examination of the Ultra-Orthodox culture, and especially some co…
Three Basic Models of Secular Jewish Culture
Three Basic Models of Secular Jewish Culture Yuval Jobani (bio) Introduction The encyclopedia, New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age1 is the highlight of the intensive, comprehensive, and relentless pre-occupation of contemporary secular Jewish culture with defining itself. This encyclopedia endeavors to present a panoramic documentation of the individuals, the movements, the works, and the institutions that left their mark on this cul…
Three Basic Models of Secular Jewish Culture
Three Basic Models of Secular Jewish Culture Yuval Jobani (bio) Introduction The encyclopedia, New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age1 is the highlight of the intensive, comprehensive, and relentless pre-occupation of contemporary secular Jewish culture with defining itself. This encyclopedia endeavors to present a panoramic documentation of the individuals, the movements, the works, and the institutions that left their mark on this cul…
Toleration and illiberal groups in context: Israel's ultra-orthodox ‘society of learners
This article aims to demonstrate the virtues of the contextual approach to political theory through an examination of a well-known question: should liberal states tolerate illiberal groups? This question will be analysed via the illustrative case of the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews' request to win an exemption from mandatory military conscription. We aim to demonstrate how a careful examination of the Ultra-Orthodox culture, and especially some co…
What Led Gordon to Compose Man and Nature? Gordon's Neglected Criticism of Metmann's Life and Nature (1909)
Three Basic Models of Secular Jewish Culture
Three Basic Models of Secular Jewish Culture Yuval Jobani (bio) Introduction The encyclopedia, New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age1 is the highlight of the intensive, comprehensive, and relentless pre-occupation of contemporary secular Jewish culture with defining itself. This encyclopedia endeavors to present a panoramic documentation of the individuals, the movements, the works, and the institutions that left their mark on this cul…
Women of the Wall: A Normative Analysis of the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere
The place of religion in the public sphere is a controversial issue, and scholarly opinions differ, from insisting on a public sphere that reflects the religion of the majority, to those who insist on it being religion-free. Using the method of inquiry of contextual political theory, we examine the struggle of the Women of Wall (WoW) to pray collectively at the Western Wall. Their struggle began in 1988, and by 2013 includes many Courts decision,…
Toleration and illiberal groups in context: Israel's ultra-orthodox ‘society of learners
This article aims to demonstrate the virtues of the contextual approach to political theory through an examination of a well-known question: should liberal states tolerate illiberal groups? This question will be analysed via the illustrative case of the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews' request to win an exemption from mandatory military conscription. We aim to demonstrate how a careful examination of the Ultra-Orthodox culture, and especially some co…
The Lure of Heresy: A Philosophical Typology of Hebrew Secularism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Contemporary study of Jewish secularism in the Modern era has yielded a nuanced picture of Hebrew secularism. This article analyzes the emergence of a rich and diverse cultural infrastructure of Hebrew secularism in the first half of the twentieth century from a philosophical perspective, proposing a typology of models of Hebrew secularism. These models are characterized by their attitudes to what, following Charles Taylor, can be referred to as …
In the Convoy and Alongside It: A Study of S. Yizhar’s Works on Education and Literature
The Secular University and Its Critics
Concluding Remarks
The conclusion underscores the impressive achievements of the Women of the Wall in their long struggle, of which arguably the most distinctive is leading the Israeli government and courts to make substantial changes in the prayer arrangements and physical reality at the Western Wall, the most sacred prayer site for Jews worldwide. It should be noted that when the WoW began their struggle (1988), the idea of establishing the egalitarian third plaz…
Women of the Wall in Focus
This chapter explores the Women of the Wall (WoW) struggle from various perspectives in order to provide a clear picture of this complex conflict. It opens with an in-depth Halakhic analysis of the religious-feminist challenge that the WoW pose to the patriarchy of mainstream Jewish Orthodoxy. It then situates the WoW struggle in the framework of Israel’s complex religion-state arrangement and critically examines the various rulings that the Isra…
Laying the Groundworks
The chapter opens with a categorization of the Western Wall as a “thick site.” Echoing Geertz’s “thick-description” approach, this new concept denotes a site typically but not necessarily religious, which is loaded with different and incompatible meanings attributed to it by different agents. From these agents’ perspective, such meanings are highly significant, and consequently, these sites are irreplaceable. This conceptualization elucidates the…
The Dominant Culture View and the Women of the Wall
This chapter analyses the dominant culture view (DCV), which argues that, in any given country, majorities can legitimately advance their religious traditions and shared cultural understandings through the acts of the government, so long as such shared understandings and traditions are effectively demonstrated and present, and their advancement by the state does not violate the rights of minority groups. The dominant culture view thus identifies …
Privatization, Thick Sites, and the Women of the Wall
This chapter analyzes the model of privatization, which keeps the state unaffiliated with any given denomination via a strict “hands off” approach toward religions. It attempts to reduce governmental entanglement with religion both by strictly limiting the role religion can play in political institutions and by respecting the autonomy of religions. It examines the applicability of privatization to thick sites in general and the Western Wall in pa…
Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites
For more than twenty-five years, the Women of the Western Wall (WoW) have been leading a groundbreaking struggle, attempting to gain permission from Israeli authorities to pray according to their manner at Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the Western Wall. The WoW’s determined activism has gained widespread media coverage. This book is the first comprehensive academic study of their struggle, and it seeks to place it in a comparative and theoretica…
Governing the Sacred: A Critical Typology of Models of Political Toleration in Contested Sacred Sites
Contested sacred sites pose an overlooked challenge for theorists of political toleration. Holy sites are often at the center of contestation between different groups regarding ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct. Two questions are posed, first, how to conceptualize ‘contested sacred sites’? Second, what are the historical-political arrangements used to govern such contested sacred sites, that can be adopted by democrat…
What Led Gordon to Compose Man and Nature? Gordon's Neglected Criticism of Metmann's Life and Nature (1909)
The First Jewish Environmentalist: The Green Philosophy of A.D. Gordon
Hailed by Martin Buber as "the true teacher," pioneer, philosopher, and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (Russian Empire-Land of Israel, 1856-1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon warned against the mounting dangers of human assault on nature and urged us to open ourselves to nature and re-attune to it. Rather than trying to conquer nature, Gordon argued, …
Charismatic seeker: A.D. Gordon in the eyes of his contemporaries and in his own eyes
Gordon enchanted and fascinated those around him. The young pioneers of the Second Aliyah, among whom he lived and worked, looked up to him as a guide and teacher – many even saw in him a prophet. Yet despite Gordon's magnetic charisma, most of his views and teachings were rejected as impractical even by the pioneers who admired him. The common Weberian association between charisma and authority, led scholars to conclude that Gordon's charisma fa…
Philosophy (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)