{"title":"Series: The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of contemporary ideas shaping Jewish culture, philosophy, and identity. Readers will discover works that provoke reflection on ethics, history, and the evolving role of Jewish thought in the modern world, crafted with intellectual depth and clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross diverse disciplines—from philosophy and psychology to business and technology—this series engages with themes that resonate both within and beyond the Jewish experience. 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Yet for all the interest in and importance of Jewish legal theory, there is no single volume that addresses it simultaneously in its historical and conceptual contexts, as well as in the context of modern legal theory more broadly defined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Legal Theories\u003c\/em\u003e collects representative modern Jewish writings on law and provides short commentaries and annotations on these writings that situate them within Jewish thought and history, as well as within modern legal theory. The topics addressed by these documents include Jewish legal theory from the modern nation-state to its adumbration in the forms of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism in the German-Jewish context; the development of Jewish legal philosophy in Eastern Europe beginning in the eighteenth century; Ultra-Orthodox views of Jewish law premised on the rejection of the modern nation-state; the role of Jewish law in Israel; and contemporary feminist legal theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486143594732,"sku":"9781584657446","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c198426860505fb3f9b954aeba6e593a.jpg?v=1775780023"},{"product_id":"modern-french-jewish-thought-9781512601862","title":"Modern French Jewish Thought","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern Jewish thought\u003c\/em\u003e is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the French milieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis anthology of modern French Jewish writing offers the first look at how this significant and diverse body of work developed within the historical and intellectual contexts of France and Europe. 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The movement, which featured a set of theological doctrines in which Jewish Kabbalistic tradition merged with Muslim and later Christian elements, suffered a setback with Tsevi's conversion to Islam in 1666. Nonetheless, for another hundred and fifty years, Sabbatianism continued to exist as a heretical underground movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt provoked intense opposition from rabbinic authorities for another century and had a significant impact on central developments of later Judaism, such as the Haskalah, the Reform movement, Hasidism, and the secularisation of Jewish society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSabbatian Heresy\u003c\/em\u003e provides a selection of the most original and influential texts composed by Sabbatai Tsevi and his followers, complemented by fragments of the works of their rabbinic opponents and contemporary observers, and some literary works inspired by Sabbatianism. 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