The Pillars of Community and the Foundations of Jewish Public Administration

von Joseph M Casamatta

110 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Pillars of Community and the Foundations of Jewish Public Administration traces the deep architecture of governance that sustained Jewish life across centuries of exile, autonomy, and reinvention. Casamatta argues that Jewish communities built enduring administrative systems long before the modern bureaucratic state took shape, grounding public order in sacred law, communal obligation, and the shared work of self-governance. Moving from the councils of antiquity through the diaspora structures of medieval Europe and beyond, the book demonstrates how legal tradition and communal institutions functioned together as instruments of survival, continuity, and moral purpose. Halakhic authority, the kahal, communal courts, and the taxing and welfare mechanisms of dispersed populations emerge here not as historical curiosities but as sophisticated frameworks of administration worthy of serious study.The significance of this work rests in its willingness to place Jewish communal governance within the wider study of public administration, a field that has long overlooked the administrative genius embedded in Jewish heritage. Casamatta blends historical analysis with the interpretive tools of administrative theory, drawing careful connections between ancient practice and enduring questions of authority, legitimacy, accountability, and service to the common good. The result rewards scholars of history, law, religion, and governance alike, offering a rigorous account grounded in primary sources and disciplined argument rather than sweeping generalization. Readers seeking to understand how a people without a state preserved order, justice, and identity across generations will find here a compelling and original contribution to the study of institutions.

• ISBN: 9798194658008
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp