Peace, in post-talmudic Jewish thought; modern Jewish thought

Originally published in the Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 13 (1972), pp. 198-9. In Post-Talmudic Jewish Thought. The medieval Jewish thinkers discuss peace under the two headings of world peace and of the avoidance of internal strife and contention in the Jewish community. Jews in the Middle Ages had no voice in international affairs. World peace in the here…