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Reminding us that we still need a discerning portrait of the settler, Dalsheim brilliantly draws a devastating picture of the strains and pressures at work between Judaism and Zionism. The liberation of the Jews by the self-proclaimed 'State of the Jewish People' has created a new Jewish problem. Dalsheim documents that to the question 'who is a Jew?' - 'Not an Arab' is only the most violent among a terrifying array of quotidian answers, erasures, and eradications. * Gil Anidjar, author ofThe Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy * In Dalsheim's trademark fashion, this book gets beyond facile dichotomies to juxtapose critical insights about the construction of Israel Jewish identity with ethnographic vignettes about people who, in various ways, are constrained or marginalized by that normative identity. It humanizes the people and historicizes the state, making it one of very few recent volumes to offer genuine new insight into a very old debate. * Jonathan Boyarin, Paul and Bertha Hendrix Director of Jewish Studies, Cornell University *

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Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Israel/Palestine studying controversies over historical narratives, nationalism, religiosity, and the secular. Her previous publications include Unsettling Gaza: Secular Liberalism, Radical Religion, and the Israeli Settlement Project (OUP, 2011) and Producing Spoilers: Peacemaking and the Production of Enmity in a Secular Age (OUP 2014).

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