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Menachem Elon, Bernard Auerbach, Daniel D. Chazin, and Melvin Sykes. Jewish Law (Mishpat Ivri): Cases and Materials. Casebook Series. New York: Matthew Bender, 1999. xxiv, 746 pp., Glossary, Table of Authorities, Table of Cases, Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2002

Michael J. Broyde
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Law Atlanta, Georgia
Angela Riccetti
Affiliation:
Emory University Atlanta, Georgia
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Jewish Law (Mishpat Ivri): Cases and Materials is a comprehensive and lucid analysis of Jewish law as it is used in the Israeli Supreme Court as part of Israeli secular law, exhaustively detailed and clearly written. It is designed to be used as an American law school textbook and is published by a law school publishing house—Matthew Bender—as part of its casebook series. The book begins with two questions: “How is it possible that a legal system bereft of territory and police power has not only persevered but flourished? Whence do the Jewish legal authorities derive their tradition-embedded answers to what appear to be novel, contemporary questions?” The book seeks to answer these queries with an exposition on the nature and purpose of Jewish law, followed by a chapter-by-chapter integration of the uses of Jewish law into Israeli secular law.

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© 2002 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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