Product Description: A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish people, whether through reestablishment of the State of Israel, new forms of diaspora community organization, or the common Jewish fight against anti-Semitism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Analyzes the Jewish communities in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Ottoman rule, as well as the present.

Product Description: This major work covers the Jewish political tradition from its biblical beginnings to the present day. The tradition is illuminated in its various epochs by identifying how its principles and modes of action were embodied in the institutions of the Jewish people over their long history...read more

Product Description: What is the distinctive character of America's cities? How have our metropolitan regions evolved since the Colonial period? What effect will local politics have on the future of the American city? These are the questions Daniel J...read more

Product Description: Reprinted with a new introduction, from the winter 1984 issue of PUBLIUS, these 17 articles represent an attempt to assess the state of the Canadian federal system, especially in the wake of the patriation of the Constitution in 1982...read more

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Product Description: This study offers the first comprehensive analysis of governmental structure and authority in Israel. Well known as a centralized state, Israel traces the roots of this conception of authority to the political culture the Jewish people have carried with them since the beginning of their history and the European concepts of state sovereignty drawn from Israel's founders...read more

Product Description: In this book, a distinguished group of scholars and activists examine the new role of political activism in American Jewish life, how it developed, how it is expressed, and what are its implications. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Center for Jewish Community Studies...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays by distinguished Israeli and American Jews focuses on the problems of relating morality and power in contemporary statecraft. The following three questions are addressed in detail by the contributors: 1) Is there a difference between individual morality and the morality of public policy choices for a state or other political community? 2) Assuming a less than perfect world, how should political communities, their leaders and members deal with the problem of maintaining moral positions under duress or at times of crisis? 3) To what extent does or should a morally relativistic or morally absolutist position influence one's conclusions with regard to the first two questions? Contributors: Sidney Hook, Moshe Landau, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Natan Yanai, Netanel Lorch, Ismar Schorsh, Meir Shitrit, Shmuel Trigano, Baruch Susser, and others...read more

Product Description: People and Polity is Daniel J. Elazar's systematic and comprehensive study of Jewish community organization. Elazar explores how the Jewish community, as a polity, transcends geographic boundaries in the same way that the Jews, as a people, have transcended time...read more

Product Description: Israel's Odd Couple analyzes the unusual 1984 Knesset elections and the unique government that resulted. For the first time in Israel's political history, the Jewish state emerged from an election so close that no major party could form a ruling coalition...read more

Product Description: This informative volume is comprised of various articles which examine specific issues relevant to authority and leadership in the Jewish community. The articles cover a vast number of cases and span a period of time from the biblical to the present...read more

Product Description: In Israel today there is increasingly vigorous support for the framing of a constitution. At the same time there is almost no recognition that in forty years Israel has acquired an almost complete set of basic laws that form a constitution...read more

Product Description: This volume is a collection of fifty of the most important studies presented at the Jerusalem Center's International Conference on Urban Revitalization. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Israeli experience with urban revitalization in the past and present, as well as a discussion of its future...read more

Product Description: This text is designed to be a contribution to the lessons the world can learn from the leadership in the American Revolutionary experience. The emphasis is on the transition from revolutionary to stable democratic leadership. Contributors include: Garry Wills, Forest McDonald, Barry Schwartz, Moshe Hazani, Gary Schmitt, Rozann Rothman, David Greenstone, Steven Spiegel...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to be a contribution to the lessons the world can learn from the leadership in the American Revolutionary experience. The emphasis is on the transition from revolutionary to stable democratic leadership. The first part contains chapters by Garry Wills, Forest McDonald, and Barry Schwartz on 'Power Gained by Surrender,' 'Washington, Cato, and Honor,' and 'George Washington and a Whig Conception of Leadership,' respectively...read more