Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The Study of Jewish Politics and the Politics of Jewish Studies 1
4. PART I. MALCHUYOT (REGIMES)
5. Chapter 1. Dignity and Dugri: The Abiding Appeal of Sovereignty Without Institutions 29
6. Chapter 2. Halakhah from the Bench? A New Perspective on the Use of Jewish Law in Israel’s Supreme Court 54
7. Chapter 3. Fleshpots in the Promised Land: On the Possibility of Zionism Without Negating the Exile 77
8. Chapter 4. Communal Organization in the Diaspora 99
9. PART II. ZICHRONOT (REMEMBRANCES)
10. Chapter 5. R. Ḥayyim Ṿital’s Political Imagination: Localizing the Dream Messianism of Sefer ha-Ḥezyonot 119
11. Chapter 6. “Jewish Philosophy” and the Politics of German-Jewish Thought Between the World Wars 141
12. Chapter 7. Empire of Charity: The Politics of American Jewish Philanthropy in Interwar Poland 160
13. Chapter 8. Jewish and Other Zionisms: Reflections on Race, Ethnocentrism, and Nationalism 178
14. PART III. SHOFAROT (BLASTS)
15. Chapter 9. Women of the Wall, Temple Mount Activism, and the Dilemmas of Jewish Feminism in an Occupied Space 201
16. Chapter 10. A Theological Critique of the Political 223
17. Chapter 11. Love, Judgment, and Antisemitism: The Case of Alice Walker 239
18. Notes 257
19. List of Contributors 301
20. Index 303
21. Acknowledgments 313