"Pnina Lahav's evocative and masterfully written biography of one of Israel's greatest justices is a penetrating study of a country, a nation, a legal system combining ancient laws with modern concepts, and a dream turned into destiny."--Elie Wiesel "[This] is one of the best judicial biographies ever. It is also one of the most acute and riveting depictions of the birth and development of Israel itself. Agranat, as Lahav writes, was to Israeli law what David Ben Gurion was to its politics. This book is worthy of him."- ...
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"Pnina Lahav's evocative and masterfully written biography of one of Israel's greatest justices is a penetrating study of a country, a nation, a legal system combining ancient laws with modern concepts, and a dream turned into destiny."--Elie Wiesel "[This] is one of the best judicial biographies ever. It is also one of the most acute and riveting depictions of the birth and development of Israel itself. Agranat, as Lahav writes, was to Israeli law what David Ben Gurion was to its politics. This book is worthy of him."--Floyd Abrams "This is the best biographyI have ever read. Pnina Lahav brilliantly uses the life of Simon Agranat to illuminate the history of Zionism, the history of Israel, the history of law in Israel, and the history of justice. The result is riveting."--Laura Kalman, author of "The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism" and "Abe Fortas" "A wonderful book that is not only a biography of one of Israel's most important Chief Justices, but a history of the development of Israel's Supreme Court and of Israeli public law. It includes a fascinating account of the trials arising out of the Holocaust. This is the first biography in English of a man who made the geographical as well as the psychological journey from Chicago to Jerusalem, and it is in part the story of the way one culture can be carried to another by a human being who ultimately is affected by both. It is well worth the attention of anyone interested in Israel, the development of law, the phenomenon of law developed in the absence of a written constitution, and the culture of human rights."--Philippa Strum, author of "The Supreme Court and Political Questions"
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 9; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
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Very good, very good. 24 cm, 331, illus., references, glossary, index. A visionary founding father of Israel, Agranat had a hand in every important legal and political issue to face Israeli society.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xvii, [1], 331, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Index. Table of Cases. During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of Israel's Seltner Award and the Gratz College Centennial Book Award, she is presently completing a biography of Israel's fourth prime minister, Golda Meir, a biography that asks how a lone woman surrounded by men makes it to the top. Among the prestigious research fellowships that Professor Lahav has earned are a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, a fellowship at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Professor Lahav delivered several endowed lectures, including the Lapidus Lecture at Princeton University in March 2015, the Rockoff Lecture at Rutgers University in March 2017 and the Taubman Lecture at the University of California in Santa Barbara in November 2017. Simon Agranat was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundation for Israel's bill of rights and took part in nearly every important Israeli legal and political issue of the century. Lahav's study of Agranat portrays Israeli history through the lens of judicial opinions. It is based on her interviews with the justice and a close examination of his papers. A major theme is the relationship between Agranat's world view and landmark Israeli Supreme Court opinions, and she tells the story of a visionary jurist and an American pursuing his Zionist dream. Here is an illuminating view of Israeli history and legal culture that includes the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Holocaust, the symbiosis between religion and the Jewish state, and the tensions within Zionism itself. Lahav details the thinking behind Agranat's 1962 decision to convict Eichmann and the justice's dissent in the "Who Is a Jew? " case in 1970. This is a key biography of Agranat who made the geographical and psychological journey from the U. S. to Israel. This book provides insights into Israeli law and politics and into the processes that form a national identity.
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