31. November 19: The Unsettled Vision for Zion: Many Judaisms, One Land

A. Rubinstein, The Zionist Dream Revisited, pp. 1-67 ( xerox # 22, Vol. XI)

32. November 21: Classical Zionist Ideology and the Origins of an Israeli Civil Judaism

A. Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea, pp. 116-139; 204-236; 248-269 (xerox #23, Vol. XII)

Focus: Note how the Zionist ideologues politicize, nationalize, and secularize such religious notions as Jew, Home/Land, Zion, Exile, Community, Restoration/Redemption, Spirit, Law.

33. November 24: (Section Meeting #7): Zionism and the Negation of the Exile

a. A. Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea, pp.270-277; 369-386 (see concluding sections of xerox #23, Vol. XII)

b. H. Hazaz, "The Sermon" in R. Alter, Modern Hebrew Literature (xerox #24, Vol. XII)

Focus: Note the radical formulations of a negation of exile in these two readings.

34: November 26: Israel's Civil Religion Liebman,

Civil Religion in Israel, pp. 1-24, 81-122 (xerox #25, Vol. XIII)

35. December 1: Revising and Demythologizing Zionism

Y. Zerubavel: Recovered Roots, pp. xvii-xx, and 3-36

36. December 3: (Section Meeting #8) History vs. Memory

Y. Zerubavel, Recovered Roots , pp. 39-47; 60-95

37. December 5: Invention and Re-invention: Emerging Culture

Y. Zerubavel, Recovered Roots, pp. 114-177, 192-237

38. December 8: The Judaizing of the Secular: The Return of the Repressed

a. C. Liebman, Civil Religion in Israel, pp. 123-166 (see concluding section of xerox #25, Vol. XIII)

b. A. Rubinstein, The Zionist Dream Revisited, pp. 99-126 ( see concluding section of xerox # 22, Vol. XI)

39. December 10: Summing up