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Book SynopsisJewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular states? This collection of essays by political theorists and lawyers deals with such questions.
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Table of ContentsPreface by Michael Walzer vii PART I: POLITICAL ORDER AND CIVIL SOCIETY 1 Chapter One: Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order by Robert M. Cover 3 Chapter Two: Judaism and Civil Society by Suzanne Last Stone 12 Chapter Three: Civil Society and Government by Noam J. Zohar 34 Chapter Four: Autonomy and Modernity by David Biale 50 PART II: TERRITORY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY 55 Chapter Five: Land and People by David Novak 57 Chapter Six: Contested Boundaries: Visions of a Shared World by Noam J. Zohar 83 Chapter Seven: Diversity, Tolerance, and Sovereignty by Menachem Fisch 96 Chapter Eight: Responses to Modernity by Adam B. Seligman 121 Chapter Nine: Judaism and Cosmopolitanism by David Novak 128 PART III: WAR AND PEACE 147 Chapter Ten: Commanded and Permitted Wars by Michael Walzer 149 Chapter Eleven: Prohibited Wars by Aviezer Ravitzky 169 Chapter Twelve: Judaism and the Obligation to Die for the State by Geoffrey B. Levey 182 Contributors 209 Index 211
