Ages of Jewish Diaspora

Since the birth of political Zionism, accounts of Jewish diaspora have risked falling into a simple binary: either the endorsement of a sole, sovereign Jewish state or the rejection of this vision. This special issue assembles original perspectives on exilic Jewish life that complicate the common appropriations of “Jewish diaspora.” In so doing, the volume problematizes a binary juxtaposition of a specific kind of Jewish statehood – understood via the concrete present-day agency of the State of Israel – to ethnic and national dispersion

Diaspora · Judaism · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy · Religious studies