Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Schusterman Center faculty member Alexander Kaye's book published

We are thrilled to announce that Oxford University Press has published the first monograph by Alexander KayeKarl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Assistant Professor of Israel Studies, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel "is an intellectual history, based on newly discovered material from numerous Israeli archives, private correspondence, court records, and lesser-known published works... the account of the blurring of the categories of "secular" and "religious" illustrated in the book are relevant to all studies of modern history and to scholars of the intersection of religion and human rights."