Israel's Declaration of Independence

The History and Political Theory of the Nation's Founding Moment

Neil Rogachevsky, Dov Zigler (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-08831-2 (ISBN)

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The first book-length treatment of the history and political thought of Israel's Declaration of Independence and its drafting process - a momentous text and a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history. The authors examine the political and theoretical dilemmas faced by the founders of Israel as they prepared to declare independence.

Israel's Declaration of Independence brings to life the debates and decisions at the founding of the state of Israel. Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler shed new light on the dilemmas of politics, diplomacy, and values faced by Israel's leaders as they charted the path to independence and composed what became modern Israel's most important political text. The stakes began with war, state-building, strategy, and great power politics, and ascended to matters of high principle: freedom, liberty, sovereignty, rights, and religion. Using fast-paced narration of the meetings of Israel's leadership in April and May 1948, this volume tells the astonishing story of the drafting of Israel's Declaration of Independence, enriching and reframing the understanding of Israel's founding and its ideas - and tracing its legacy.

Neil Rogachevsky is clinical assistant professor and associate director at the Straus Center of Yeshiva University, where he teaches Israel studies and political thought. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Tablet, Mosaic, Jewish Review of Books, American Affairs, Ha'aretz and other publications. Dov Zigler is an independent scholar and an economics researcher at Element Capital in New York.

1. Natural rights; 2. From natural rights to labor Zionism: Tzvi Berenson and the legal department's draft; 3. International law: Herschel Lauterpacht's draft; 4. Diplomacy: Moshe Shertok's draft; 5. Politics and law: debating the declaration; 6. Natural and historical right: David Ben-Gurion and Israel's Declaration; 7. The laws of Israel and the declaration of independence; Conclusion: sovereignty, the Jewish state, and principles of political right.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	536 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-009-08831-9 / 1009088319
ISBN-13	978-1-009-08831-2 / 9781009088312
Zustand	Neuware