Description
Law and Jewish Difference explores the intricate intersections between legal systems and Jewish identity, investigating how law has historically constructed, regulated, and negotiated Jewish difference across various contexts and time periods. Through examining ambivalent encounters between Jewish communities and legal frameworks, Mareike Riedel demonstrates how law has simultaneously protected and marginalized Jewish populations.
The book investigates key questions about how legal systems define and respond to religious and cultural minorities, using Jewish history and experience as a lens for understanding broader patterns of legal treatment of difference. Drawing on comparative legal analysis, historical case studies, and theoretical frameworks from law and society scholarship, Riedel reveals the complex ways that legal institutions shape identity and belonging.
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series, this work contributes to scholarly conversations about law’s role in constituting social categories, managing pluralism, and negotiating minority rights within democratic societies.
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