Democracy and the Halakhah(English, Paperback, Schweid Eliezer)

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Democracy and the Halakhah(English, Paperback, Schweid Eliezer) is written by Schweid Eliezer and published by University Press of America. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0819194301 (ISBN 10) and 9780819194305 (ISBN 13).

Eliezer Schweid in Democracy and the Halakhah analyzes the writings of Rabbi Haim Hirschensohn, one of the early Hebrew cultural pioneers who laid the foundation for the Zionist enterprise. Born in Safed Eretz Israel in 1857, Hirschensohn was pushed out of the fanatic Ashkenazi religious community and ended up as an Orthodox rabbi in Hoboken, New Jersey. His writings focus on finding a philosophic basis that could reconcile the Torah with the transformation forced upon the Jewish people by modernity so as to come out with a coherent systematic system of political thought that could encompass both. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.