The King Is in the Field : : Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought / / ed. by Samuel Hayim Brody, Julie E. Cooper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• HerausgeberIn: Brody, Samuel Hayim,; Cooper, Julie E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political? Until recently, scholars were fiercely divided regarding whether Jews engaged in politics, displayed political wisdom, or penned works of political thought over the two millennia when there was no Jewish state. But over the past few decades, the field of Jewish political thought has begun to examine the ways in which Jewish individuals and communal organizations behaved politically even in diaspora.The King Is in the Field centers writing from leading scholars that serves as an introduction to this exciting field, providing critical resources for anyone interested in thinking about politics both within and beyond the state. From kabbalistic theology to economic philanthropy, from race and nationalism in the U.S. to Israeli legal discourse and feminist activism, this key study of Jewish political thought holds the promise to reorient the field of political thought as a whole by expanding conceptions of what counts as “political.”In a world in which statelessness now applies to 100 million individuals, this volume illuminates ways to understand how diaspora Jewish political thought functioned in adopted homelands. This approach allows the book to offer questions and analysis that add depth and breadth to academic studies of Jewish politics while simultaneously offering a blueprint for future volumes interrogating political action through multiple diasporas.Contributors: Samuel Hayim Brody, Lihi Ben Shitrit, Julie E. Cooper, Arye Edrei, Meirav Jones, Rebecca Kobrin, Vincent Lloyd, Menachem Lorberbaum, Shaul Magid, Assaf Tamari, Irene Tucker, Philipp Von Wussow, Michael Walzer.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Study of Jewish Politics and the Politics of Jewish Studies -- PART I. MALCHUYOT (REGIMES) -- Chapter 1. Dignity and Dugri: The Abiding Appeal of Sovereignty Without Institutions -- Chapter 2. Halakhah from the Bench? A New Perspective on the Use of Jewish Law in Israel’s Supreme Court -- Chapter 3. Fleshpots in the Promised Land: On the Possibility of Zionism Without Negating the Exile -- Chapter 4. Communal Organization in the Diaspora -- PART II. ZICHRONOT (REMEMBRANCES) -- Chapter 5. R. Ḥayyim Ṿital’s Political Imagination: Localizing the Dream Messianism of Sefer ha-Ḥezyonot -- Chapter 6. “Jewish Philosophy” and the Politics of German-Jewish Thought Between the World Wars -- Chapter 7. Empire of Charity: The Politics of American Jewish Philanthropy in Interwar Poland -- Chapter 8. Jewish and Other Zionisms: Reflections on Race, Ethnocentrism, and Nationalism -- PART III. SHOFAROT (BLASTS) -- Chapter 9. Women of the Wall, Temple Mount Activism, and the Dilemmas of Jewish Feminism in an Occupied Space -- Chapter 10. A Theological Critique of the Political -- Chapter 11. Love, Judgment, and Antisemitism: The Case of Alice Walker -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments