Daniel Elazar, Leading Professor: Scholar, 65, `inspired a whole generation of disciples.'

Daniel Elazar, Leading Professor: Scholar, 65, `inspired a whole generation of disciples.'

STEVE LIPMAN

STAFF WRITER

Daniel Elazar, an authority on -- and sometimes critic of -- the Jewish community, died Dec. 2 of lymphoma in his Jerusalem home. He was 65.

Professor Elazar, a Minneapolis-born scholar, made aliyah in the 1970s, subsequently splitting his time between Israel and Philadelphia, where he served as director of Temple University's Center for the Study of Federalism.

The author of more than 70 books and 700 articles, he is best known for "Community and Polity," his 1995 book...