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Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel

by Daphne Barak-Erez

University of Wisconsin Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-0-299-22163-8 | Cloth: 978-0-299-22160-7
Library of Congress Classification KMK1020.B37 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 343.569407664

ABOUT THIS BOOK

     The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture and collective memory. Outlawed Pigs explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture.
     Daphne Barak-Erez specifically traces the course of two laws, one that authorized municipalities to ban the possession and trading in pork within their jurisdiction and another law that forbids pig breeding throughout Israel, except for areas populated mainly by Christians. Her analysis offers a comprehensive, decade-by-decade discussion of the overall relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state.
     By examining ever-fluctuating Israeli popular opinion on Israel's two laws outlawing the trade and possession of pigs, Barak-Erez finds an interesting and accessible way to explore the complex interplay of law, religion, and culture in modern Israel, and more specifically a microcosm for the larger question of which lies more at the foundation of Israeli state law: religion or cultural tradition.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Daphne Barak-Erez is professor of law at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including a coedited book in English titled Human Rights in Private Law.

REVIEWS

"A meticulously researched narrative of the surprising consequences of efforts to abolish the business of selling pork over the course of the modern history of the state of Israel. . . . Anyone interested in the history of regulations, particularly anyone interested in the history of regulations in societies marked by religious pluralism and controversy, will learn much from this model case study.” —Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University

“It is hard to underestimate the significance of the pig for Jews, and Daphne Barak-Erez’s book shows it to be a delightfully apt way to get at the fascinating maze that is Israeli politics.”—William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface		000
1. Religious Symbols and Culture in Israeli Law		000
2. Pig Prohibitions in Jewish and Israeli Culture		000
3. Toward Independence: The British Mandate in the 1930s and 1940s	000
4. The Establishment of the State and the Politics of Nation-Building	000
5. Laying the Foundations: Legislation in the 1950s and 1960s		000
6. Formative Battles of Enforcement	000
7. From Status Quo to Political Conflict: The 1970s and 1980s	000
8. The Renewed Challenge: The 1990s and Onwards	000
9. National Symbol or Religious Concern?	000
Appendix 1	000
Appendix 2	000
Notes	000
Index	000

EXCERPT
“The peculiar regulation of pig-breeding and pork-trading in Israeli law is not only an interesting chapter in Israeli legal history, but is also a living dilemma relevant to the understanding of current processes in Israeli society and politics. The pig controversy can be seen as a microcosm of larger developments, including the growing gap between secular and religious Jews and, chiefly, the crystallization of a new identity for secular Jews in Israel, one that is detached from traditional Jewish culture and draws its main inspiration from universal values.” —excerpt from Outlawed Pigs

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