Messianism Zionism And Jewish Religious Radicalism

Author : Aviezer Ravitzky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226705781

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Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism by Aviezer Ravitzky Pdf

The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the State of Israel? In this cogent and searching study, Aviezer Ravitzky probes Orthodoxy's divergent positions on Zionism, which range from radical condemnation to virtual beatification. Ravitzky traces the roots of Haredi ideology, which opposes the Zionist enterprise, and shows how Haredim living in Israel have come to terms with a state to them unholy and therefore doomed. Ravitzky also examines radical religious movements, including the Gush Emunim, to whom the State of Israel is a divine agent. He concludes with a discussion of the recent transformation of Habad Hassidism from conservatism to radical messianism. This book is indispensable to anyone concerned with the complex confrontation between Jewish fundamentalism and Israeli political sovereignty, especially in light of the tragic death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Author : Frank Jacob,Sebastian Kunze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110543520

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Jewish Radicalisms by Frank Jacob,Sebastian Kunze Pdf

Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. This volume wants to survey Jewish radicalism and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon. It is focused on the 19th and 20th century and tries to grasped the manyfold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, it approaches the term Jewish radicalism from different perspectives and wants to extend the understanding of this phenomenon.

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253014771

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Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism by Michael L. Morgan,Steven Weitzman Pdf

Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

Author : Ruth Esther Schwarz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783960955023

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What is the difference between Judaism and Zionism? The impact of religion on political decision-making in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Ruth Esther Schwarz Pdf

Until the present day, wide-spread confusion regarding the meaning of the terms Judaism and Zionism persists both inside and outside Israel. The popular opinion is that the terms are synonyms. But this implies the false assumption that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism. As Ruth Esther Schwarz shows the Israeli right-wing regime uses this dangerous shortcut in order to justify its ongoing colonization of Palestine. Based on the work of Israel’s New Historians, Schwarz’s book aims at deconstructing the mainstream mindset concerning Judaism and Zionism. Therefore, she analyses the nature of the principal ideological streams and their complex interconnections before and after 1948. She focusses on orthodox Judaism, religious Zionism, Jewish radical messianism, Jewish fundamentalism, the ideological change of traditional Zionism and, last but not least, the role of Christian Zionism in the United States. Keywords: - Judaism; - Zionism; - Israeli-Palestinian conflict; - religious Zionism; - nationalism; - fundamentalism

Author : AVI. SCHWARTZ SAGI (DOV.),Dov Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1967
ISBN : 036766433X

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Religious Zionism and the Six Day War by AVI. SCHWARTZ SAGI (DOV.),Dov Schwartz Pdf

This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zionism had limited its concern to the protection of specific religious interests, with its representatives having little share in the determination of Israel's national agenda. Fifty years after it, religious-Zionism has turned into one of Israeli society's dominant elements. The presence of this group in all aspects of Israel's life and its members' determination to set Israel's social, cultural, and international agenda is indisputable. Delving into this dramatic transformation, the book depicts the Six-Day War as a constitutive event that indelibly changed the political and religious consciousness of religious-Zionists. The perception of real history that had guided this movement from its dawn was replaced by a "sacred history" approach that became an actual program of political activity. As part of a process that has unfolded over the last thirty years, the body and sexuality have also become a central concern in the movement's practice, reflection, and discourse. The how and why of this shift in religious-Zionism - from passivity and a consciousness of marginality to the front lines of public life - is this book's central concern. The book will be of interest to readers and scholars concerned with changing dynamic societies and with the study of religion and particularly with the relationship between religion and politics.

Author : Motti Inbari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107673356

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Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises by Motti Inbari Pdf

The Six Day War in 1967 profoundly influenced how an increasing number of religious Zionists saw Israeli victory as the manifestation of God's desire to redeem God's people. Thousands of religious Israelis joined the Gush Emunim movement in 1974 to create settlements in territories occupied in the war. However, over time, the Israeli government decided to return territory to Palestinian or Arab control. This was perceived among religious Zionist circles as a violation of God's order. The peak of this process came with the Disengagement Plan in 2005, in which Israel demolished all the settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank. This process raised difficult theological questions among religious Zionists: What supreme religious significance could be attributed to these events? Was the State of Israel no longer to be considered a divine tool for the redemption of the Jewish people? This book explores the internal mechanism applied by a group of religious Zionist rabbis in response to their profound disillusionment with the behavior of the state, reflected in an increase in religious radicalization due to the need to cope with the feelings of religious and messianic failure.

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099951

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Zionism and Judaism by David Novak Pdf

This book argues that Zionism is only a coherent political stance when it is intelligently rooted in Judaism, especially in the classical Jewish doctrine of God's election of the people of Israel and the commandment to them to settle the land of Israel.

Author : Motti Inbari
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438426419

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Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount by Motti Inbari Pdf

The Temple Mount, located in Jerusalem, is the most sacred site in Judaism and the third-most sacred site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The sacred nature of the site for both religions has made it one of the focal points of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount is an original and provocative study of the theological roots and historical circumstances that have given rise to the movement of the Temple Builders. Motti Inbari points to the Six Day War in 1967 as the watershed event: the Israeli victory in the war resurrected and intensified Temple-oriented messianic beliefs. Initially confined to relatively limited circles, more recent "land for peace" negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors have created theological shock waves, enabling some of the ideas of Temple Mount activists to gain wider public acceptance. Inbari also examines cooperation between Third Temple groups in Israel and fundamentalist Christian circles in the United States, and explains how such cooperation is possible and in what ways it is manifested.

Author : Uri Huppert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fanaticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4953334

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Back to the Ghetto by Uri Huppert Pdf

Author : Kenneth G. C. Newport,Crawford Gribben
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781932792386

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Expecting the End by Kenneth G. C. Newport,Crawford Gribben Pdf

Jesus' promise that "the end" draws near has spawned an expectation of that grand event across various religious groups. This volume examines the abiding social issues that surround the continued presence of apocalyptic anticipation by setting them in historical, present-day, and future manifestations. Approaching this fervent expectation from a broad perspective, Gribben and Newport explore the contemporary movements with insightful analysis that provokes discussion and even self-reflection.

Author : Motti Inbari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107458471

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Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality by Motti Inbari Pdf

In Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality, Motti Inbari undertakes a study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York. He reviews the history, ideology and gender relations of prominent ultra-Orthodox leaders Amram Blau (1894-1974), founder of the anti-Zionist Jerusalemite Neturei Karta, and Yoel Teitelbaum (1887-1979), head of the Satmar Hasidic movement in New York. Focussing on the rabbis' biographies, the author analyzes their enclave building methods, their attitude to women and modesty, and their eschatological perspectives. The research is based on newly discovered archival materials, covering many unique and remarkable findings. The author concludes with a discussion of contemporary trends in Jewish religious radicalization. Inbari highlights the resilience of the current generations' sense of community cohesion and their capacity to adapt and overcome challenges such as rehabilitation into potentially hostile secular societies.

Author : Nathan P. Devir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507708

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First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa by Nathan P. Devir Pdf

Millions of African Christians who consider themselves genealogical descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel—in other words, Jewish by ethnicity, but Christian in terms of faith—are increasingly choosing a religious affiliation that honors both of these identities. Their choice: Messianic Judaism. Messianic adherents emulate the Christians of the first century, observing the Jewish commandments while also affirming the salvational grace of Yeshua (Jesus). As the first comparative ethnography of such "fulfilled Jews" on the African continent, this book presents case studies that will enrich our understanding of one of global Christianity’s most overlooked iterations.

Author : Michael Stanislawski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199766048

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Zionism by Michael Stanislawski Pdf

"This Very Short Introduction discloses a history of Zionism from the origins of modern Jewish nationalism in the 1870's to the present. Michael Stanislawski provides a lucid and detached analysis of Zionism, focusing on its internal intellectual and ideological developments and divides"--

Author : Yehuda Kurtzer,Claire E. Sufrin
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644694701

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The New Jewish Canon by Yehuda Kurtzer,Claire E. Sufrin Pdf

“Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal.” —Jewish Journal The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400826520

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The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose Pdf

Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent British writer Jacqueline Rose, who uses her political and psychoanalytic skills in this book to take an unprecedented look at Zionism--one of the most powerful ideologies of modern times. Rose enters the inner world of the movement and asks a new set of questions. How did Zionism take shape as an identity? And why does it seem so immutable? Analyzing the messianic fervor of Zionism, she argues that it colors Israel's most profound self-image to this day. Rose also explores the message of dissidents, who, while believing themselves the true Zionists, warned at the outset against the dangers of statehood for the Jewish people. She suggests that these dissidents were prescient in their recognition of the legitimate claims of the Palestinian Arabs. In fact, she writes, their thinking holds the knowledge the Jewish state needs today in order to transform itself. In perhaps the most provocative part of her analysis, Rose proposes that the link between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state, so often used to justify Israel's policies, needs to be rethought in terms of the shame felt by the first leaders of the nation toward their own European history. For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.