Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American JewryAn update and revision of the original 1976 edition, this study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective. |
Contents
Abbreviations | 2 |
OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY | 11 |
Jews and Religion in a Nonmythic Society | 17 |
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Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry Daniel Judah Elazar Limited preview - 1995 |
Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry Daniel Judah Elazar Limited preview - 2001 |
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