The Challenges of Sovereignty
Essays on Israel and Zionism
$226.05
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
24 August 2026
Summary
Key essays by a notable scholar address some of the most pressing questions facing Israel today.
Over the course of his rich career, David Ellenson—one of the most outstanding Jewish scholars, intellectuals, and thinkers of our time—probed the tension between tradition and modernity, especially as reflected in the ceaseless reinterpretation of liturgical and halakhic texts. Alongside that scholarly interest, largely centered on European Jewry, Ellenson produced an imp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781684583225 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1684583225 |
| Author: | David Ellenson, David N. Myers, Michael Marmur |
| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
| Imprint: | Brandeis University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry |
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About The Author
David Ellenson
David Ellenson (1947–2023) was a distinguished scholar of modern Jewish thought and history. Among his many academic roles, he directed the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and was a visiting professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University from 2015–2018. Most recently, he coedited, with Michael Marmur, American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement and Belief.
David N. Myers is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. He is the author and editor of many books, including, with Nomi Stolzenberg, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York.
Michael Marmur is professor of Jewish theology at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder, and most recently, Living the Letters: An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought.
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