The King Is in the Field : : Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought / / ed. by Samuel Hayim Brody, Julie E. Cooper.
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 fe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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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