Alexander
Kaye

Brandeis University

Bio

Alexander Kaye is Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair of Israel Studies and associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His recent book, The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel (Oxford University Press, 2020) traces the origins and consequences of the idea of the “halakhic state” among religious Zionists.

Fellowship

2016–2017

Asking if and how Jewish history, culture, and experience offered new paradigms with which to engage the politicaland, conversely, how mainstream political theories might expand Jewish studies in new and productive directions.