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Recovering a Political Tradition Created by a People Without a State: A Four-Volume Reader Ignores the Likes of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman in Favor of Talmudic Sages

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From: Forward
Date: 20000331
Author:Dorfman, John

Dorfman, John
Forward
03-31-2000
Recovering a Political Tradition Created by a People Without a State: A
Four-Volume Reader Ignores the Likes of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman in Favor
of Talmudic Sages

By JOHN DORFMAN

A four-volume work called "The Jewish Political Tradition," one might
think, at least ought to include Marx, if not Abbie Hoffman or Emma
Goldman. But Yale University Press's projected anthology, the first volume
of which is set to appear in April, will include none of these. Its editors
have another kind of political tradition in mind, one that encompasses the
Talmud, Maimonides, Judah ...

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