2nd Edition
Kinship and Consent Jewish Political Tradition and Its Contemporary Uses
A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish people, whether through reestablishment of the State of Israel, new forms of diaspora community organization, or the common Jewish fight against anti-Semitism. Precisely because contemporary Jewry has moved increasingly toward self-definition in political terms, a significant part of the search for roots and meaning must take place within the political realm.
Biography
Daniel J. Elazar is president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Senator N.M. Paterson Professor of Intergovernmental Relations at Bar-Ilan University, and professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous books, including Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of the American Jewish Community, The Jewish Polity: Jewish Political Organization from Biblical Times to the Present, and Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel, and is the founder and editor of the Jewish Political Studies Review.