Author : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1584657448
Anthology of writings about Jewish law in the modern world
Author : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1512601357
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal Theories collects representative modern Jewish writings on law and provides short commentaries and annotations on these writings that situate them within Jewish thought and history, as well as within modern legal theory. The topics addressed by these documents include Jewish legal theory from the modern nation-state to its adumbration in the forms of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism in the German-Jewish context; the development of Jewish legal philosophy in Eastern Europe beginning in the eighteenth century; Ultra-Orthodox views of Jewish law premised on the rejection of the modern nation-state; the role of Jewish law in Israel; and contemporary feminist legal theory.
Author : Chaim Gans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190237546
"The book presents several interpretations of Zionism and the post-Zionist alternatives currently proposed for it as political theories for the Jews. It explicates their historiographical, philosophical and moral foundations and their implications for the relationships between Jews and Arabs in Israel/Palestine and between Jews in Israel and world Jews"--
Author : Raphael Gross
Publisher : George L. Mosse the History of
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
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Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190608382
For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question. The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct by individuals, communities, and countries and shows how to motivate people to do the good and right thing. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality is a collection of original essays addressing these topics--historical and contemporary, as well as philosophical and practical--by leading scholars from around the world. The first section of the volume describes the history of the Jewish tradition's moral thought, from the Bible to contemporary Jewish approaches. The second part includes chapters on specific fields in ethics, including the ethics of medicine, business, sex, speech, politics, war, and the environment.
Author : François-Xavier Licari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108421970
This is the first book to present a systematic and synthetic introduction to Jewish law.
Author : David Novak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521631709
Natural law is the idea that our basic moral principles apply to every human being, and are accessible to human reason. Most people have assumed that since Judaism seems to consist of a specific historical revelation and a specific tradition, that an idea such as natural law is foreign to it. This book shows that natural law is part of Judaism, and that it is consistent with its specific revelation and tradition. In this book, not only is the history of an idea shown with great accuracy, but the idea of natural law is presented as a way of conveying some of Judaism's meaning for life today.
Author : Daniel B. Sinclair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198268277
This text deals with the controversial issues of abortion, assisted reproduction, genetics, the obligation to heal, patient autonomy, treatment of the terminally ill, the definition of death, organ donations, and the allocation of scarce medical resources in Jewish law.
Author : Chaim N. Saiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691210853
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Typically translated as "Jewish law," halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to enforce its rules, nor has it ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically, the talmudic rabbis claim the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that brings a person closer to God—a claim no country makes of its law. Chaim Saiman traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies assign not only to philosophy, political theory, theology, and ethics but also to art, drama, and literature. Guiding readers across two millennia of richly illuminating perspectives, this panoramic book shows how halakhah is not just "law" but an entire way of thinking, being, and knowing.
Author : Rotem Giladi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 019885739X
By departing from accounts of a universalist component in Israel's early foreign policy, Rotem Giladi challenges prevalent assumptions on the cosmopolitan outlook of Jewish international law scholars and practitioners, offers new vantage points on modern Jewish history, and critiques orthodox interpretations of the Jewish aspect of Israel's foreign policy. Drawing on archival sources, the book reveals the patent ambivalence of two jurist-diplomats-Jacob Robinson and Shabtai Rosenne-towards three international law reform projects: the right of petition in the draft Human Rights Covenant, the 1948 Genocide Convention, and the 1951 Refugee Convention. In all cases, Rosenne and Robinson approached international law with disinterest, aversion, and hostility while, nonetheless, investing much time and toil in these post-war reforms. The book demonstrates that, rather than the Middle East conflict, Rosenne and Robinson's ambivalence towards international law was driven by ideological sensibilities predating Israel's establishment. In so doing, Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law disaggregates and reframes the perspectives offered by the growing scholarship on Jewish international lawyers, providing new insights concerning the origins of human rights, the remaking of postwar international law, and the early years of the UN.
