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Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial
Leora Bilsky
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Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism.
Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism.
Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Foreword
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Transformative Trials and Dilemmas of Democracy
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The Kastner Trial
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Chapter 1. Performing the Past: The Role of the Political Lawyer
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Chapter 2. From Faust to Kastner: The Judge as Storyteller
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Chapter 3. The Poet's Countertrial
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The Eichmann Trial
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Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Narratives
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Chapter 5. Reflective Judgment and the Spectacle of Justice
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Chapter 6. Social Criticism in the Shadow of a Transformative Trial
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The Kufr Qassem Trial
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Chapter 7. Between Ordinary Politics and Transformative Politics
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The Yigal Amir Trial
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Chapter 8. “A Jewish and Democratic State” Reconsidered
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Conclusion: Between Transformative Trials and Truth Commissions
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Table of Cases
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Index
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Published: 2004
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-03037-8 (paper)
- 978-0-472-02492-6 (ebook)