A home for all Jews citizenship, rights, and national identity in the new Israeli state / [electronic resource] :
Orit Rozin ; translated by Chaim Watzman.
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2016]
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies .
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Creating citizenship in the new State -- 1. The right to childhood and the age of marriage law -- 2. The right to travel abroad -- 3. Craving recognition.
"Through an examination of civil rights campaigns -- including debates over the right to travel abroad, the right to equality (for women), the right to childhood, and the right to be heard -- shows how government, the press, and the citizenry created a modern nation and viable democracy in 1950s Israel"--