The Jewish Political Tradition: Membership - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300094280 ISBN 13 : 9780300094282

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The second volume of "The Jewish Political Tradition", this work is concerned with the theme of membership. It brings together important texts on membership topics from 3000 years of Jewish history, many newly translated or translated for the first time. Commentaries from modern religious and secular scholars, representing a range of viewpoints on the right and the left, accompany the texts. Among the contributors are Arthur Isak Applbaum, Ruth Gavison, Moshe Halbertal, Martha Minow, David Novak, Ilana Pardes, Steven B. Smith and Nomi Maya Stolzenberg. They deal with some of the most controversial issues in Jewish life, not only in the past but also at the start of the 21st century. Who is a Jew? How are the boundaries of a community drawn, and how are they policed? How does one join the community? How does one leave? The volume also takes up the question of degrees of membership: what kinds of hierarchies exist among Jews? In the final chapter, the book deals with "others", gentiles, because the boundaries of Jewish membership cannot be understood without asking who stands on the other side.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Menachem Lorberbaum is senior lecturer in the department of Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Noam J. Zohar is senior lecturer in the department of philosophy at Bar Ilan University. Ari Ackerman is lecturer in the School of Education at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem. All four editors are research fellows at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300094280
• ISBN 13: 9780300094282
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Walzer Michael, Lorberbaum Menachem, Zohar Noam J., Ackerman Ari
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible