Jewish Legal Theories: Writings on State, Religion, and Morality (Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought)

Synopsis

Jewish law and the rise of the modern nation-state -- Theological-political treatise / Benedict de Spinoza -- Selections from the writings of Moses Mendelssohn and an associated text -- Posthumous writings / Abraham Geiger -- Selections from the writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch -- “Judicial evidence according to mosaic talmudic law” / Zacharias Frankel -- History of the Jews -- Selections from the writings of Hermann Cohen / Heinrich Graetz -- “The legal system of jewish law” / Menachem Elon -- Selections from the writings of Robert Cover -- Eastern european views of law : dissolution of jewish communal power -- Selections from the writings of Eliyahu of Vilna and associated texts -- The soul of life / Hayyim of Volozhin --Selections from the writings of Shneur Zalman of Liady -- Guide of the perplexed of the age / Nahman Krochmal -- Light of Israel / Yisrael (Lipkin) Salanter -- Novellae and clarifications on Maimonides / Hayyim Soloveitchik --^ Novellae on tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Batra / Shimon Shkop -- Selections from the writings of Yisrael Meir Kagan and associated texts -- Selections from the Writings of Joseph B. Soloveitchik -- Ultra-orthodoxy and the rejection of the modern nation-state -- Selections from the writings of Moshe Sofer and associated texts -- Selections from the writings of Akiva Yosef Schlesinger and an associated text -- Fourth generation / Moshe Shemuel Glasner -- “The philosophical foundations of jewish and of modern law” / Isaac Breuer -- Selections from the writings of Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz -- Epistles of Moshe / Moshe Feinstein -- Selections from the writings of Yoel Teitelbaum and associated texts -- Jewish law and the state of Israel -- Selections from the writings of Abraham Isaac Kook -- Uziel’s rulings / Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel -- “Is a Torah constitution possible?” / Shlomo Goren --^ Constitution and law in a jewish state according to the Torah / Isaac Halevi Herzog -- “The religious significance of the state of Israel” / Yeshayahu Leibowitz -- Not in heaven : the nature and function of Halakhah / Eliezer Berkovits -- Pillar of the right / Shaul Yisraeli -- Laws of the state / Eliezer Waldenberg -- “Regarding women’s recital of the blessing over the Lulav and other time-bound positive commandments” / Ovadiah Yosef -- Jewish feminist views of law -- Engendering Judaism : an inclusive theology and ethics / Rachel Adler -- Expanding the palace of Torah : orthodoxy and feminism / Tamar Ross -- Feminism encounters traditional Judaism : resistance and accommodation / Tova Hartman -- “Toward a gender critical approach to the philosophy of Jewish law (Halakhah)” / Ronit Irshai. edited by Leora Batnitzky and Yonatan Y. Brafman. Includes bibliographical references and index.