Ilan Zvi Baron is Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

At once a thought-provoking account of transnational political obligation and a sure-footed consideration of the fraught terrain on which Jewish-Israeli relations unfold. Not all will find Baron's notion of obligation persuasive; yet the book opens fresh ground for academics seeking to balance normatively-inflected political analysis against critical self-reflection, and – it is to be hoped – among Jews and Israelis seeking to reflect upon, and make sense of, their own affiliations and ambivalences.

• 1: The Limits of Political Obligation; 2: Power and Obligation; 3: Between Zion and Diaspora: internationalisms, transnationalisms, obligation and security; 4: From Eating Hummus to the Sublime; 5: Obligation and Critique; Conclusion: Obligation in Exile, Critique and the Future of the Jewish Diaspora

Ilan Zvi Baron is Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

At once a thought-provoking account of transnational political obligation and a sure-footed consideration of the fraught terrain on which Jewish-Israeli relations unfold. Not all will find Baron's notion of obligation persuasive; yet the book opens fresh ground for academics seeking to balance normatively-inflected political analysis against critical self-reflection, and – it is to be hoped – among Jews and Israelis seeking to reflect upon, and make sense of, their own affiliations and ambivalences.

• 1: The Limits of Political Obligation; 2: Power and Obligation; 3: Between Zion and Diaspora: internationalisms, transnationalisms, obligation and security; 4: From Eating Hummus to the Sublime; 5: Obligation and Critique; Conclusion: Obligation in Exile, Critique and the Future of the Jewish Diaspora

Ilan Zvi Baron is Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

At once a thought-provoking account of transnational political obligation and a sure-footed consideration of the fraught terrain on which Jewish-Israeli relations unfold. Not all will find Baron's notion of obligation persuasive; yet the book opens fresh ground for academics seeking to balance normatively-inflected political analysis against critical self-reflection, and – it is to be hoped – among Jews and Israelis seeking to reflect upon, and make sense of, their own affiliations and ambivalences.

• 1: The Limits of Political Obligation; 2: Power and Obligation; 3: Between Zion and Diaspora: internationalisms, transnationalisms, obligation and security; 4: From Eating Hummus to the Sublime; 5: Obligation and Critique; Conclusion: Obligation in Exile, Critique and the Future of the Jewish Diaspora