Jews and the law
By: edited by Ari Mermelstein, Victoria Saker Woeste, Ethan Zadoff, Marc Galanter
Contributors: Woeste, Victoria Saker, editor; Zadoff, Ethan, editor; Galanter, Marc, 1931- editor; Mermelstein, Ari, editor
Series: Legal history & biography series; Legal history and biography series
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781610272278
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Jewish lawyers
Description: "Jews are a people of law, and law defines who the Jewish people are and what they believe. This anthology engages with the growing complexity of what it is to be Jewish - and, more problematically, what it means to be at once Jewish and participate in secular legal systems as lawyers, judges, legal thinkers, civil rights advocates, and teachers. The essays in this book trace the history and chart the sociology of the Jewish legal profession over time, revealing new stories and dimensions of this significant aspect of the American Jewish experience and at the same time exploring the impact of Jewish lawyers and law firms on American legal practice"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Victoria Saker Woeste; title: Jews in the German legal professions: emancipation, assimilation, exclusion  -- Kenneth Ledford; title: Louis Marshall, Julius Henry Cohen, Benjamin Cardozo, and the New York emergency rent laws of 1920  -- Samuel Levine; title: The Jewish law firm: past and present  -- Eli Wald; title: Jewish lawyers for causes of the political right  -- Ann Southworth; title: Gentleman's agreement: the antisemitic origins of restrictions on stockholder litigation  -- Lawrence E. Mitchell; title: From emancipation to assimilation: is secular liberalism still good for Jewish lawyers?  -- Russell Pearce and Adam Winer; title: Hating the law for Christian reasons: the religious roots of American antinomianism  -- Jay Michaelson; title: Lawyer jokes and the Jewish question: Jews, lawyers, and legalism in American life  -- Marc Galanter; title: Jews and legal realism  -- Morton Horwitz; title: Jews and American legal pluralism  -- Dalia Tsuk Mitchell; title: Texts, values, and historical change: reflections on the dynamics of Jewish law  -- David Berger; title: "The time has not yet come to repair the world in the kingdom of God": Israeli lawyers and the failed Jewish revolution of 1948 -- Assaf Likhovski.