Authority and Dissent in Jewish Life,

Year

2020

Publisher

Purdue University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-61249-627-6

Link

Last Update

17-May-2026

Keywords

Religion ; Jewish Studies ; History

Description

eligious leaders. Political leaders. Military leaders. They have been among the most prominent members of the establishment, Jewish and non-Jewish, for millennia. From their positions (elected, appointed, or stolen) they have exercised authority, which has on occasion been met with dissent.

As I reflected one last time on the essays in this volume and the symposium where presenters made their presentations, I was once again struck by how universal and yet distinctively Jewish so many phenomena are at one and the same time. As has been the case before, so here too it seems like a swatch of autobiography most...