By some standards we are perhaps an unexceptional people; our national history testifies to a failing contest with a basically European and ambitious ideology (as well as practice); we have been unable to interest the West very much in the justice of our cause. Nevertheless we have begun, I think, to construct a political identity and will of our

Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of ‘The Negation of Exile’ in Israeli Culture,” published in English in 2017, did essential work to conceptualize the price of erasing exile within the Jewish national project