On the Place: Israeli Anthropology
Gideon Aran
Zali Gurevitch
1991
The Israeli existence is new and experimental. Israelism comes from Zionism, based on the idea of the Jewish people’s return to its place. Israel is a Jewish place. Use of the term Jewish in characterizing the place arouses dissatisfaction and startles from its lair the Israelism that should already have taken the place of the Judaism whence sprang…
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