Pledges of Jewish Allegiance- Signed & Inscribed

David Ellenson, Daniel Gordis

ISBN 10: 0804778051 / ISBN 13: 9780804778053

Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 2012

About this Item

Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 2012, 206 pages. First/First in Fine/Fine condition, with a tiny pen mark to bottom near spine. Otherwise tight, square, clean, and unclipped. (Please review photos). Author David Ellenson has warmly inscribed on title page " To Larry, In Warmest Friendship, David". Also included is a review of book from the WSJ, and a author Signed card "Dear Larry, A wonderful holiday to you and your family, David". The book is subtitled " Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Ninetenth-and Twentieth Century Orthodox Responsa". All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. White boards with blue/black lettering.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pledges of Jewish Allegiance- Signed & Inscribed
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford CA
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804778051
• ISBN 13: 9780804778053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First/ First.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion
  • History

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Synopsis

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. Pledges of Jewish Allegiance prefaces its analysis of modern opinions with a discussion of the classical Jewish sources upon which they draw.

About the Author

David Ellenson, President and I. H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College–Jewish institute of Religion, is a distinguished rabbi, scholar, and leader of the Reform Movement. Daniel Gordis is President of the Shalem Foundation and Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and a frequent contributor to the New York Times and was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism.