Download or read book Community and Polity written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective.