A01=Eliezer Schweid
Author_Eliezer Schweid
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Product details
- ISBN 9780819194305
- Weight: 281g
- Dimensions: 152 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 1994
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eliezer Schweid in Democracy and the Halakhah analyzes the writings of Rabbi Haim Hirschensohn, one of the early Hebrew cultural pioneers who laid the foundation for the Zionist enterprise. Born in Safed Eretz Israel in 1857, Hirschensohn was pushed out of the fanatic Ashkenazi religious community and ended up as an Orthodox rabbi in Hoboken, New Jersey. His writings focus on finding a philosophic basis that could reconcile the Torah with the transformation forced upon the Jewish people by modernity so as to come out with a coherent systematic system of political thought that could encompass both. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Eliezer Schweid is Full Professor of Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
