Why the Jewish State Now?

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raef Zreik
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Gradual Evolution

Israel's raison d’être was as a Jewish state, yet for almost four decades after the 1948 declaration of its establishment its Jewishness was not inscribed in any law. This essay, a structural-historical discourse analysis, seeks to explore what led up to today's insistent assertion of the state's Jewish identity. To this end, the author traces Israel's gradual evolution from its purely ethnic roots (the Zionist revolution) to a more civic concept of statehood involving greater inclusiveness (accompanied in recent decades by a rise in Jewish religious discourse). The author finds that while the state's Jewishness was for decades an assumption so basic as to be self-evident to the Jewish majority, the need to declare it became more urgent as the possibility of becoming “normalized” (i.e., a state for all its citizens) became an option, however distant. The essay ends with an analysis of Israel's demand for recognition as a Jewish state, arguing why the Palestinian negotiators would benefit from deconstructing it rather than simply disregarding it.

Prophetic Discourses and Power Shift in Ethiopian History

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Alelign Aschale Wudie
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
History Data ◽  
Power Shift ◽  
Sociocultural Practices

The main intention in this article is to critically analyze the role of prophecy for power shift in Ethiopia in history. Data collected from archives, traveler accounts, and history documents were critically analyzed. Critical historical discourse analysis was used as a framework and methodology of analysis. Interpretation, symbolization and operationalization of dreams, prophecies, and “told spiritual accounts” by prominent mystics and interpreters had been the critical turning-points of Ethiopians in history. Their role was consequential and influential. Royal families used to “invent, disseminate and operationalize” dreams, prophecies, and superstitious practices. Consequently, their instinctive wish for abundant fulfillment and power grant had been gained by “revelations” and “connections” of each interpretation with supernatural powers. To scale up the benefit, ecclesiastical intervention had been badly sought out. The prophetic discourses and ideologies had been very instrumental in Ethiopian theopolitics, sociocultural practices, and power use.

scholarly journals They Tore God Limb From Limb

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katlyn Kichko
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Singular Case ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Catholic Church

This paper interacts specifically with two separate texts, that is Michel de Certeau’s The Possession at Loudun and Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller. Both of these texts present a narrative of religious turmoil, demonic possessions and a heretical Inquisition, respectively, and the events which surround a single religious dissenter. Examining the two heretical men presented within these texts in comparison allows for an understanding of Catholic Church dogma during the age of the Counter Reformation, and how such an institution managed threats, both external and internal. Moreover, this paper also examines the methodologies behind the historical discourse, in order to understand the validity of the narratives presented, and the scope of historical depth sought. Addressing methodology is crucial when one narrows focus to two singular case studies by two separate historians. Thus, this paper intends to illustrate the threats to normative religious discourse which Urbain Grandier and Menocchio possessed in the face of the Catholic Church, while also demonstrating the methodologies by which the two men are presented within their respective histories.

Scottish Transnational Discourse of the Great War: A Genealogy of Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and Hugh MacDiarmid’s “At the Cenotaph”

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-331
Author(s):  
J. Rubén Valdés Miyares
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Transnational Discourse ◽  
Time Critical ◽  
The Great War

A comparison of a 1971 popular song, Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” with a 1935 poem, Hugh MacDiarmid’s “At the Cenotaph,” enables this article to produce a transnational, trans-genre and trans-historical discourse analysis of memories of the Great War of 1914-1918. While an ethonosymbolic approach allows for the discovery of resemblances and continuities, Nietzschean genealogy criticizes such monumental, associative views of the past and focuses instead on the casual connections between disperse moments in time. Critical discourse analysis, in turn, offers a possible synthesis by distinguishing historical narrative structures, cultural practices (the Anzac parades and cenotaphs to honor the heroic dead), and textual events, in this case the satirical representation of the Great War in later song and poetry.

“He said he was going on the scamp”: Thieves’ cant, enregisterment and the representation of the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Roxanne But
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Old Bailey ◽  
Keyword Searches

AbstractThis paper investigates how cant is used to represent the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. Cant refers to the special vocabulary that is associated with and used by people living on the margins such as thieves and prostitutes. Little work has been conducted on the use of this language in courtroom texts. Using a historical pragmatic framework, evidence of the actual occurrence of cant as well as metalinguistic evidence was generated through lexical keyword searches in the Old Bailey Proceedings Online. Then the use of marginal vocabulary was examined more closely in extracts from the Sessions Papers using historical discourse analysis. This paper argues that cant is enregistered and that the courtroom recorder and the editor of the Session Papers reproduced the cant language to highlight and draw attention to the maliciousness and culpability of those who were accused in court. Linguistic techniques such as glossing and metalinguistic commentary were inserted to foreground the cant terms in the text. In addition, this historical discourse analysis sheds light on how the witnesses in the courtroom make strategic use of cant terms to portray the defendant in a negative light.

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-203
Author(s):  
Hilla Dayan ◽  
Anat Stern ◽  
Roman Vater ◽  
Yoav Peled ◽  
Neta Oren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Palestinians In Israel

Yael Berda, Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank (Stanford, CA: Stanford Briefs, 2018), 152 pp. Paperback, $14.00. Randall S. Geller, Minorities in the Israeli Military, 1948–58 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), 238 pp. Hardback, $100.00. eBook, $95.00. Yaacov Yadgar, Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 226 pp. Paperback, $26.99. Kindle, $16.99. Ian S. Lustick, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 232 pp. Hardback, $27.50. Ilan Peleg, ed., Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019), 222 pp. Hardback, $90.00. Sarah S. Willen, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 344 pp. Hardback, $89.95. As’ad Ghanem and Mohanad Mustafa, Palestinians in Israel: The Politics of Faith after Oslo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 206 pp. Paperback, $29.99. Daniel G. Hummel, Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 352 pp. Hardback, $49.95. Cary Nelson, Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), 658 pp. Hardback, $45.00. Kindle, $7.99. Letters to the Editors

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