Venue: NYU Bronfman Center NYU Bronfman Center

Machshava:

Politics 

Personalities:

Abarbanel 

Collections: R' Wolfson Jewish Political Thought

Description

From the Tanakh through the Talmud and into the Rambam and other medieval sages, the pro-monarchy position was the dominant position within Jewish thought. How fascinating therefore, that in the 15th Century, one of the most experienced and adept Jewish politicians and statesmen of all time, Don Yitzchak Abrabanel, created a political philosophy which rejects not only monarchy in favour of republican democracy, but even appears to reject political association altogether.