S. DANIEL BRESLAUER is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He has published extensively on modern Jewish religion and morality including Covenant and Community in Modern Judaism (Greenwood, 1989), Contemporary Jewish Ethics (Greenwood, 1985), Modern Jewish Morality (Greenwood, 1986), and Judaism and Human Rights in Contemporary Thought (Greenwood, 1993).

Foreword by G.E. Gorman
Introductory Survey
Does Judaism Believe in Human Rights?
Human Rights in the Bible and Talmud
Jewish Theories of Human Rights
Judaism and Specific Human Rights
Human Rights and Contemporary Judaism
Conclusions
Bibliographical Survey
General Works and Anthologies
Anthologies
Bibliographies and Encyclopedias
Periodicals and Journals
Human Rights in the Bible and Talmud
Jewish Theories of Human Rights
Judaism and Specific Human Rights
Communal Rights
Freedom of Conscience
The Right of Dissent
The Right to Equality
Freedom of Expression
The Right to Raise a Family
The Right to Freedom
The Right to Health
The Rights of Labor
The Right to Legal Equity
The Right to Life
The Rights of Minorities
The Right to Privacy
The Right to Freedom From Racism
War and the Right to Peace
Welfare Rights
The Rights of Women
Human Rights and Contemporary Judaism
Author Index
Title Index
Subject Index

This reference provides a comprehensive survey of human rights in Judaism. It includes both theoretical discussions of the nature and substance of human rights and practical applications of that theory either by Jews or to Jews. While numerous dissertations and audio-visual materials focus on human rights and Judaism, the bibliography is limited to books and articles. The majority of the works have been written in English or Hebrew, but significant studies in other languages, chiefly French and German, have also been included. The volume contains more than 700 citations, each accompanied by a descriptive annotation.
The book begins with an introductory essay that examines the basic concerns of the works that follow. The annotated entries are then presented in five chapters. The first chapter includes anthologies, references, and periodicals. The second chapter includes studies of human rights in the Bible and Talmud. The third chapter includes works on Jewish theories of human rights. The fourth chapter, broken down into smaller sections, includes works on Judaism and particular human rights. The fifth chapter contains entries for works on contemporary Judaism and human rights. The volume concludes with author, title, and subject indexes.