If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be
political? Until recently, scholars were fiercely divided regarding
whether Jews engaged in politics, displayed political wisdom, or
penned works of political thought over the two millennia when there
was no Jewish state. But over the past few decades, the field of
Jewish political thought has begun to examine the ways in which
Jewish individuals and communal organizations behaved politically
even in diaspora. The King Is in the Field centers writing from
leading scholars that serves as an introduction to this exciting
field, providing critical resources for anyone interested in
thinking about politics both within and beyond the state. From
kabbalistic theology to economic philanthropy, from race and
nationalism in the U.S. to Israeli legal discourse and feminist
activism, this key study of Jewish political thought holds the
promise to reorient the field of political thought as a whole by
expanding conceptions of what counts as “political.” In a world
in which statelessness now applies to 100 million individuals, this
volume illuminates ways to understand how diaspora Jewish political
thought functioned in adopted homelands. This approach allows the
book to offer questions and analysis that add depth and breadth to
academic studies of Jewish politics while simultaneously offering a
blueprint for future volumes interrogating political action through
multiple diasporas. Contributors: Samuel Hayim Brody, Lihi Ben
Shitrit, Julie E. Cooper, Arye Edrei, Meirav Jones, Rebecca Kobrin,
Vincent Lloyd, Menachem Lorberbaum, Shaul Magid, Assaf Tamari,
Irene Tucker, Philipp Von Wussow, Michael Walzer.
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