A home for all Jews : citizenship, rights, and national identity in the new Israeli state

248 Pages·2016·1.294 MB·English

by  Orit Rozin, Haim Watzman (tr.)

A Home for All Jews
The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
Editors · S. Ilan Troen · Jehuda Reinharz · Sylvia Fuks Fried
The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies publishes original scholarship of excep­
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Calvin Goldscheider, Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century:
Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict
Yigal Schwartz, The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity
Anat Helman, Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s
Tuvia Friling, A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz:
History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival
Motti Golani, Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945–1947
Ilana Szobel, A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
Anita Shapira, Israel: A History
Orit Rozin, The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism
Boaz Neumann, Land and Desire in Early Zionism
Anat Helman, Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities
Nili Scharf Gold, Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet
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Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics,
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editors · Lisa Fishbayn Joffe · Sylvia Neil
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Orit Rozin, A Home for All Jews:
Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State
Kimba Allie Tichenor, Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation:
How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the
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Janet Bennion, Polygamy in Primetime:
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Orit Rozin
A Home for All Jews
Citizenship, Rights,
and National Identity in
the New Israeli State
Translated by
haim Watzman
Brandeis University Press
Waltham, Massachusetts
Brandeis University Press
An imprint of University Press of New England
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Research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (934/09)
Chapter 2 is based on two previously published articles by
Orit Rozin from 2010, “Israel and the Right to Travel Abroad, 1948–1961,”
Israel Studies 15 (1): 147–76; and 2011, “Negotiating the Right to Exit
the Country in 1950s Israel: Voice, Loyalty, and Citizenship,”
Journal of Israeli History 30 (1): 1–22.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rozin, Orit, author. | Watzman, Haim, translator.
Title: A home for all Jews: citizenship, rights, and national identity
in the new Israeli state / Orit Rozin; translated by Haim Watzman.
Description: Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University
Press, 2016 | Series: The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies |
Series: Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law | Includes
bibliographical references and index. | Description based on print version
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Identifiers: lccn 2015048850 (print) | lccn 2015048041 (ebook) |
isbn 9781611689518 (epub, mobi & pdf) | isbn 9781611689495
(cloth: alk. paper) | isbn 9781611689501 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Israel.
Classification: lcc ds126.5 (print) |
lcc ds126.5 .r6913 2016 (ebook) | ddc 323.095694 —dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048850
To my wonderful sons,
Yuval and Yotam

Contents
Acknowledgments · xi
Introduction
Creating Citizenship in the New State
· 1 ·
chapter one
The Right to Childhood and the Age of Marriage Law
· 15 ·
chapter two
The Right to Travel Abroad
· 67 ·
chapter three
Craving Recognition
· 116 ·
Conclusion
· 162 ·
Notes · 171
Bibliography · 203
Index · 223