- Summary
- "If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political? The field of Jewish political thought examines how Jewish individuals and communal organizations have behaved politically both within and beyond statehood. The study of Jewish political thought promises to expand received conceptions of what counts as "political.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- Jewish culture and contexts
Jewish culture and contexts.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
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- Contents
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The study of Jewish politics and the politics of Jewish studies / Julie E. Cooper and Samuel Hayim Brody
Chapter 1. Dignity and Dugri : the abiding appeal of sovereignty without institutions / Irene Tucker
Chapter 2. Halakhah from the bench? A new perspective on the use of Jewish law in Israel's Supreme Court / Arye Edrei
Chapter 3. Fleshpots in the Promised Land : on the possibility of Zionism without negating the exile / Meirav Jones
Chapter 4. Communal organization in the diaspora / Michael Walzer
Chapter 5. R. Ḥayyim Ṿital's political imagination : localizing the dream messianism of Sefer ha-Ḥezyonot / Assaf Tamari
Chapter 6. "Jewish philosophy" and the politics of German-Jewish thought between the world wars / Philipp von Wussow
Chapter 7. Empire of charity : the politics of American Jewish philanthropy in interwar Poland / Rebecca Kobrin
Chapter 8. Jewish and other Zionisms : reflections on race, ethnocentrism, and nationalism / Shaul Magid
Chapter 9. Women of the Wall, Temple Mount activism, and the dilemmas of Jewish feminism in an occupied space / Lihi Ben Shitrit
Chapter 10. A theological critique of the political / Menachem Lorberbaum
Chapter 11. Love, judgment, and antisemitism : the case of Alice Walker / Vincent Lloyd.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cooper, Julie E., editor.
Brody, Samuel Hayim, editor.
- Notes
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Includes index.
The study of Jewish politics and the politics of Jewish studies / Julie E. Cooper and Samuel Hayim Brody -- Chapter 1. Dignity and Dugri : the abiding appeal of sovereignty without institutions / Irene Tucker -- Chapter 2. Halakhah from the bench? A new perspective on the use of Jewish law in Israel's Supreme Court / Arye Edrei -- Chapter 3. Fleshpots in the Promised Land : on the possibility of Zionism without negating the exile / Meirav Jones -- Chapter 4. Communal organization in the diaspora / Michael Walzer -- Chapter 5. R. Ḥayyim Ṿital's political imagination : localizing the dream messianism of Sefer ha-Ḥezyonot / Assaf Tamari -- Chapter 6. "Jewish philosophy" and the politics of German-Jewish thought between the world wars / Philipp von Wussow -- Chapter 7. Empire of charity : the politics of American Jewish philanthropy in interwar Poland / Rebecca Kobrin -- Chapter 8. Jewish and other Zionisms : reflections on race, ethnocentrism, and nationalism / Shaul Magid -- Chapter 9. Women of the Wall, Temple Mount activism, and the dilemmas of Jewish feminism in an occupied space / Lihi Ben Shitrit -- Chapter 10. A theological critique of the political / Menachem Lorberbaum -- Chapter 11. Love, judgment, and antisemitism : the case of Alice Walker / Vincent Lloyd.
