Quest for Utopia
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AIPAC
Alexander III
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American Jewish Opinions
American Jewry
American Jews
ancient Israel political thought
Author_Zvi Y. Gitelman
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chazan
communal
communities
comparative political systems
constitutionalism in religion
diaspora governance
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ethnic minority politics
Gerald J. Blidstein
israte
Jewish Communal Authority
Jewish Communal Life
Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council
Jewish Community Structure
Jewish Political
Jewish Political Behavior
Jewish Political Ideas
Jewish Political Tradition
Jonathan Frankel
law
Major Jewish Organizations
Medieval Jewish Communities
Modern Jewish Politics
National Jewish Coalition
non-Jewish Authorities
non-Jewish Rulers
Paula E. Hyman
Peter Y. Medding
political culture analysis
pro-Israel PACs
Rabbi Nissim
rabbinic legal adaptation
Recalcitrant Jews
robert
Robert Chazan
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Stuart A. Cohen
theory
tradition
universelle
Western Jewry
Zvi Gitelman
Product details
- ISBN 9781563240614
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long, rich, and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness. It holds insights, as Zvi Gitelman points out in his introductory chapter, for anyone interested comparative and ethnic politics, Jewish history, and the prehistory of contemporary Israeli politics. Stuart Cohen analyzes the "covenant idea" and the constitutional character of ancient Israel, which had a profound influence on Western political thought through the medium of the Bible. Gerald Blidstein examines rabbinic strategies for accommodation to the realities of Jewish dispersion in the middle Ages, while Robert Chazan focuses on communal authority and self-governance in the same period. Jonathan Frankel and Paula Hyman move the study into modern times with attempts to characterize the diverse patterns of Jewish political culture and activity in different parts of Europe, in the process revealing the dynamics of political cultural influence. Finally, Peter Medding looks at the "new politics" of contemporary American Jews - as voters, as public officials, and as organizational actors.
Zvi Gitelman is professor of political science and Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
