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Covenant and Country

JL;DR SUMMARY The editorial explores Robert Cover's influential work, "Nomos and Narrative," and its significance to both American legal theory and Jewish thought. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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American Jewish ExperienceLegal TheoryNarrativeAmerican Jewish ThoughtJewish ContributionRobert CoverNomos And NarrativeAmerican IdealsHalakhah And Aggadah

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United States
"As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States of America, what interests me most right now is how Covers ideas can help us to appreciate this moment as American Jews and inspire us to recommit to the American project, not simply as it is, but with a vision of what it can be and how we might help it get there."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Its not immediately clear when you pick it up that its a work of Jewish thought: It was published in the Harvard Law Review, not a Jewish journal or book, and the terms it uses are Greek and Latin in origin, not Hebrew."

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