2020/02/20 by Alexander Kaye · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Historical and Linguistic Studies
paper · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190922740.003.0003
openalex publication_date 2020/02/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The creator and champion of the ideology of the halakhic state was Isaac Herzog, Israel’s first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi. Prior to his arrival in Palestine in 1937, he was the Chief Rabbi of Ireland. This chapter accounts the history of Herzog’s intellectual development, and in particular his writing about law. It places his legal philosophy in the context of the prevailing jurisprudence of the day, including ideas about the evolution of law and the centralizing reforms of European states at the end of the nineteenth century. It also shows how Herzog’s experience of the struggle for Irish independence from the British, and the role of law and religion in that struggle, helped to shape his attitudes to law and colonialism once he had arrived in Palestine.