Quest for Utopia: Jewish Political Ideas and Institutions Through the Ages, The

By Gitelman, Zvi (Ed.)
Sharpe, M.E. Inc., 1992, Paperback, 162 pp., ISBN: 1563240629, $38.95

There being no classical corpus of Jewish political thought, or any coherent system, seven essays distill ideas from a wide range of texts.

These essays generalize to suggest that there is indeed a distinctive Jewish political philosophy that has informed society and institutions during both sovereignty and dispersal. Booknews