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Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa

Ellenson, David
Gordis, Daniel

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Judaism

ISBN10: 0804778051
ISBN13: 9780804778053
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 18 2012
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: National Jewish Book Award

Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated--culturally, socially, and politically--into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse. This book examines a wide array of legal opinions written by nineteenth- and twentieth-century orthodox rabbis in Europe, the United States, and Israel. It argues that these rabbis' divergent positions--based on the same legal precedents--demonstrate that they were doing more than delivering legal opinions. Instead, they were crafting public policy for Jewish society in response to Jews' social and political interactions as equals with the non-Jewish persons in whose midst they dwelled.

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