04989nam 2200697 a 450 991049596700332120230828223900.00-585-29983-8(CKB)111004366717410(MH)007480424-3(SSID)ssj0000186446(PQKBManifestationID)12011252(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000186446(PQKBWorkID)10218838(PQKB)11134841(EXLCZ)9911100436671741019961212d1997 uy 0engtxtccrJudgment in JerusalemChief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century /Pnina Lahav[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Pressc19971 online resource (xvii, 331 p., [9] p. of plates )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-20595-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-311) and index.From America to Palestine: America, 1906-1930. Palestine, 1930-1948 -- Laying the foundations for a judicial bill of rights: Israel, 1948-1953. In quest of progressive reform. The foundations of progressive reform. Law, morality, and judicial review -- Confronting the Holocaust: Blaming the victims: the Kasztner trial. Blaming the victimizers: the Eichmann trial -- Politics and the rule of law: Who is the guardian of the law: the minister of justice or the attorney general? -- Between past and future: Chief Justice Agranat. Arab representation in the Jewish state. Who is a Jew? the split revisited -- The Yom Kippur War: War and the Agranat commission -- Judging the truth truthfully: Retirement, 1976-1992."Chief Justice Simon Agranat was to Israeli law what David Ben-Gurion was to Israeli politics. A visionary founding father, Agranat had a hand in every important legal and political issue to face Israeli society. Justice in Jerusalem, based on extensive interviews conducted with Agranat, provides a compelling look into Agranat the Supreme Court Justice and Agranat the American immigrant seeking to fulfill his Zionist dream in Palestine. Pnina Lahav skillfully paints a panoramic view of Israeli history and legal culture: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Holocaust, the symbiosis between religion and the Jewish state, the tension between universal values and the nation state and within Zionism itself." "Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1906 and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. On the Supreme Court from the beginning of Israeli statehood, he laid the foundation to the country's bill of rights - this despite the fact that Israel had failed to adopt a written constitution. Focusing on major legal events, Lahav explores the social and political context in which Israeli constitutional law has been crafted." "Lahav details the thinking behind Agranat's 1962 decision to convict the notorious Nazi Adolph Eichmann, as well as his fascinating 1970 dissent in the "Who Is a Jew?" case. We also learn of the tensions that arose as Agranat found himself pulled between the contradictory demands of American jurisprudence and the practical difficulties rooted in the Israeli concern for security." "The first biography of an Israeli judge in English, this book reveals new insights into the relationship between Israeli law and politics, the influence of American law abroad, and the intricacies of national identity and of justice."--Jacket.Judgement in JerusalemJUDGMENT IN JERUSALEM: CHIEF JUSTICE SIMON AGRANAT & THE ZIONIST CENTURYJudgesIsraelBiographyLawIsraelHistoryZionismHistory20th centuryJudgesBiography20th centuryIsraelLawHistoryIsraelZionismHistoryLaw - Africa, Asia, Pacific & AntarcticaHILCCLaw - Non-U.SHILCCLaw, Politics & GovernmentHILCCBiographies.fastHistory.fastJudgesLawHistory.ZionismHistoryJudgesBiographyLawHistoryZionismHistory.Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & AntarcticaLaw - Non-U.S.Law, Politics & Government347.5694/014/092Lahav Pnina1945-1079659DLCDLCMH-LBOOK9910495967003321Judgment in Jerusalem2592313UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress