Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry

by Daniel J. Elazar

Book Overview

An 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082760565X
• ISBN13: 9780827605657
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Standard-of- the-art study

The late Daniel Elazar was one of the world's foremost students of Jewish communal and political life. In this comprehensive work he studies the American Jewish communities transformations in time. This is an essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the political and communal structure of American Jewish life.