Rozin, Orit,

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"--

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Israel.


Electronic books.

DS126.5 / .R6913 2016

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