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The No-State Solution

A Jewish Manifesto

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The No-State Solution

By: Daniel Boyarin
Narrated by: John Lescault
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A provocative manifesto arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood

Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation based on Jewish ethnicity. The latter position is commonly known as “Zionism,” and all articulations of a political theory of Zionism are taken to be variations of that view.

In this provocative audiobook, based on his decades of study of the history of the Jews, Daniel Boyarin lays out the problematic aspects of this binary opposition and offers the outlines of a different—and very old—answer to the question of the identity of a diaspora nation. He aims to drive a wedge between the “nation” and the “state,” only very recently conjoined, and recover a robust sense of nationalism that does not involve sovereignty.

©2023 Daniel Boyarin (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing Judaism Middle East
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A valuable contribution to promoting solidarity and peace among people by distinguishing between nationhood and statehood. Removing arbitrariness and prejudice from the debates. Boyarin does a great job in explaining how a nation of Peoples are connected through culture language and doing across space and time and not concerned with lines drawn on a map. This book is about peace and respect for all Peoples on this precious earth.

A noble and novel take

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