The Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine

ISBN-13: 9780521631839 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 232 str.

Ronen Shamir

Opis

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.

Recenzje

' … an informative analysis of the historical geography of the increasingly planned and vociferous role the Religious Kibbutz Movement played in Zionist settlement. The author successfully shows how the idea of forming blocs of settlements was a major driving force for the Movement and that everyday farming and social problems lay beyond the ideology. This book thereby sets the stage for comprehending how religious settlements became a part of the overall Zionist kibbutz and settlement structure, gradually to be accompanied by a political power which cannot be ignored today.' Middle Eastern Studies

Spis treści

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 of legality; 8. Dead law and statism: a suggested lesson.