Asaf Yedidya

Halakha and the Challenge of Israeli Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Halakha and the Challenge of Israeli Sovereignty examines the issues surrounding national, political, and religious sovereignty from the vantage point of halakha and its evolution. The work analyzes the efforts of the interpretative communities who adhered to halakha-the rabbinical authorities-as well as other groups who endeavored to help or to change it: the Jewish jurists in Eretz Israel who sought to integrate sections of halakha into the Jewish collective; and the religious academics who wanted more meaningful recognition of halakha in non-halakhic values. The assessment extends from the beginning of the Jewish national movement in the last two decades of the 19th century to the first two decades of the State of Israel, when weighty problems arose that required a halakhic response to the challenge of sovereignty. In this, the volume sheds light on the pliable nature of the concept of halakha, particularly in conjunction with its application to the notion of sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781498534970
• ISBN-10: 149853497X
• Artikelnr.: 55878895

Autorenporträt

Asaf Yedidya is head of the Department of History at Efrata College and a senior lecturer at Ariel University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter One: The Halakha in the Face of Modernity and Zionism
Chapter Two: The Shmita Debate of 5649 (1888-9) Chapter Three: "Government
in the Spirit of the Talmud": The Pioneering Discussion of Zeev Jawitz
Chapter Four: The Balfour Declaration and the Pioneering Debate on Halakha
and the Challenge of Sovereignty Chapter Five: The Age of Jurists Chapter
Six: The Rabbinical Debate on the Eve of the Establishment of the State of
Israel and in its Early Years Chapter Seven: The Younger Generation of
Zionist Rabbis Faces the Challenge of Sovereignty Chapter Eight: Religious
Academics and the Challenge of Sovereignty Epilogue Bibliography About the
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