Abstract The focus of this article is the 1958 “Who is a Jew?” controversy and David Ben-Gurion’s inquiry into Jewishness leading intellectuals from Israel and the Diaspora regarding how to register a child born to a non-Jewish mother in the Israeli identity card. The article’s main claim is that this correspondence must be understood not only as reflecting a continuous struggle between diaspora and Israeli Jews or between Jews of various religious persuasions, but rather as reflecting a built-in tension between pan-Jewish solidarity and Israeli Jewish sovereignty. This built-in tension seems to prevail today as well, and thus our analysis of the 1958 event may enable a more complex understanding of the continuous and seemingly unresolved tensions within today’s Jewish world.

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泛犹太人团结和现代以色列的犹太人意义：1958 年“谁是犹太人？” 重温婚外情

摘要 本文的焦点是 1958 年的“谁是犹太人？” 争议以及大卫·本-古里安 (David Ben-Gurion) 就如何在以色列身份证上登记非犹太母亲所生孩子的问题，对来自以色列和散居国外的知识分子的犹太人身份进行调查。这篇文章的主要主张是，这种对应不仅必须被理解为反映侨民与以色列犹太人之间或不同宗教信仰的犹太人之间的持续斗争，而且反映了泛犹太人团结与以色列犹太人主权之间内在的紧张关系。这种内在的紧张局势似乎在今天也盛行，因此我们对 1958 年事件的分析可能有助于更复杂地理解当今犹太世界中持续存在且看似未解决的紧张局势。