Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry (Jewish Communal & Public Affairs) - Softcover

Elazar, Daniel J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082760565X ISBN 13: 9780827605657

Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY, 1995

Synopsis

An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective.

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About the Author

Daniel J. Elazar, Senator N.M. Paterson Professor Emeritus of Intergovernmental Relations at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, is the founder and president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and founder and editor of the Jewish Political Studies Review. He is also Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University in Philadelphia, founder and editor-in-chief of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and founder and past president of the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies. He is the author or editor of over 60 books including a 4-volume study of the Covenant Tradition in Politics (Transaction, 1995-1998), as well as Community and Polity, The Jewish Polity, and People and Polity, a trilogy on Jewish political and community organization from earliest times to the present.

Edition details

• Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 082760565X
• ISBN 13: 9780827605657
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 672