Moses Hess And Modern Jewish Identity

Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253108562

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Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity by Ken Koltun-Fromm Pdf

"Koltun-Fromm's reading of Hess is of crucial import for those who study the construction of self in the modern world as well as for those who are concerned with Hess and his contributions to modern thought.... a reading of Hess that is subtle, judicious, insightful, and well supported." -- David Ellenson Moses Hess, a fascinating 19th-century German Jewish intellectual figure, was at times religious and secular, traditional and modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist. Ken Koltun-Fromm's radical reinterpretation of his writings shows Hess as a Jew struggling with the meaning of conflicting commitments and impulses. Modern readers will realize that in Hess's life, as in their own, these commitments remain fragmented and torn. As contemporary Jews negotiate multiple, often contradictory allegiances in the modern world, Koltun-Fromm argues that Hess's struggle to unite conflicting traditions and frameworks of meaning offers intellectual and practical resources to re-examine the dilemmas of modern Jewish identity. Adopting Charles Taylor's philosophical theory of the self to uncover Hess's various commitments, Koltun-Fromm demonstrates that Hess offers a rich, textured, though deeply conflicted and torn account of the modern Jew. This groundbreaking study in conceptions of identity in modern Jewish texts is a vital contribution to the diverse fields of Jewish intellectual history, philosophy, Zionism, and religious studies. Jewish Literature and Culture -- Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation

Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019817563

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"Inescapable Frameworks" by Ken Koltun-Fromm Pdf

Author : Moses Hess
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:8596547314370

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Rome and Jerusalem: The Last National Question by Moses Hess Pdf

"Rome and Jerusalem" is a famous work by Moses Hess that gave rise to the Labor Zionism movement. Hess argued for the Jews to return to Palestine and suggested a socialist country where the Jews would become agrarianized through "redemption of the soil." This book was the first Zionist work to put the question of Jewish nationalism in the context of European nationalism.

Author : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814705871

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Moses Hess by Shlomo Avineri Pdf

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Author : Elias Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UCSC:32106008454339

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Jewish Identity by Elias Friedman Pdf

JEWISH IDENTITY is a theological analysis of the nature & meaning of the Election of Israel, by God, as a chosen people. The "Who is a Jew?" debate in the State of Israel indicates a certain confusion about Jewish identity, even amongst Jews. Is Jewry a race, a nation, a religious denomination? What is the relation of the Election to the Law of Moses & to the Land of Israel? Can the horrors of the Holocaust be reconciled with the idea of the Election? Can the fact that the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel was largely led by agnostic & atheistic Jews be explained in light of the Election? Most Christian claims concerning Jesus as Messiah necessarily lead to the view that the Election is no longer operative or, on the contrary, does not the New Testament require an affirmation of the irrevocability of the Election? The author, a Hebrew Catholic Carmelite Priest from Haifa, Israel, presents a bold yet rigorous theological-historical approach to the "THE MYSTERY OF ISRAEL." This provocative & insightful work is sure to make many readers think about the Jewish people in new & constructive ways.

Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 066693973X

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Moses Hess (Classic Reprint) by Joseph Heller Pdf

Excerpt from Moses Hess Rome and Jerusalem is not only a proud reaffirmation of the Zionist idea; it is imbued with a social pathos rooted in the belief of the Prophets in a better world and universal peace. Moses Hess was among the first champions of the modern idea of Jewish national revival, based on the ideas of social justice. In Hess's time assimilation was a militant ideology, whose champions included a number of brilliant men who inadvertently enriched Judaism. To-day assimilation is a passive trend of drifting away from Jewish life; a process of disintegration. In the 19th century assimilation meant a conscious act of self-abnegation. To-day many leave Jewish life often without noticing it themselves. A hundred years ago there was a vigorous struggle of ideologies within Jewry. Today one can hardly speak of a struggle. There are a few 'to-day who fight for assimilation on the basis of a special philosophy of Jewish life. Nevertheless, to-day disintegration is a greater threat to the Jewish future than in the 19th century. A hundred years ago self-liquidation was an ideology; to-day it is an integral part of Jewish diaspora life. In the 19th century Jewish persecution was a deterrent to national suicide; to-day Jewish equality is considered by some as an encouragement to the giving-up of the Jewish way of life. The establishment of Israel had a double effect on the diaspora: it brought some Jews back to their people 5 it strengthened assimilationist tendencies among others. Moses Hess's life story published below - is not only a piece of historical research; it is a timely pamphlet dealing with one of the most acute problems of Jewish existence to-day: the Jewish national idea versus assimilation. It should be widely read, especially by those who are seeking an answer to the question: what is the place of the Jew in the modern world? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Moses Hess
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497803934

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Rome and Jerusalem by Moses Hess Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.

Author : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465094806

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The Making of Modern Zionism by Shlomo Avineri Pdf

An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political movement: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished political scientist Shlomo Avineri rejects the common view that Zionism was solely a reaction to anti-Semitism and persecution. Rather, he sees it as part of the universal quest for self-determination. In sharply-etched intellectual profiles of Zionism's major thinkers from Moses Hess to Theodore Herzl and from Vladimir Jabotinsky to David Ben Gurion, Avineri traces the evolution of this quest from its intellectual origins in the early nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel. In an expansive new epilogue, he tracks the changes in Israeli society and politics since 1967 which have strengthened the more radical nationalist and religious trends in Zionism at the expense of its more liberal strains. The result is a book that enables us to understand, as perhaps never before, one of the truly revolutionary ideas of our time.

Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253004161

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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America by Ken Koltun-Fromm Pdf

How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material culture and Jewish thought. Ken Koltun-Fromm draws from philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to portray the vibrancy and richness of Jewish practice in America. His analyses of Mordecai Kaplan's obsession with journal writing, Joseph Soloveitchik's urban religion, Abraham Joshua Heschel's fascination with objects in The Sabbath, and material identity in the works of Anzia Yezierska, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as Jewish images on the covers of Lilith magazine and in the Jazz Singer films, offer a groundbreaking approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to American culture.

Author : Moses Hess
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803272758

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The Revival of Israel by Moses Hess Pdf

Its author, Moses Hess (1812-1875), was a German socialist who brought his revolutionary zeal to the preaching of Jewish nationalism. The Revival of Israel combines a fervent sense of national destiny with ethical socialism and religious conservatism. Hess believed that Papal Rome represented the source of anti-Semitism and that universal ideals of justice and equality were inherent in the history and aspirations of the Jewish people, who could fulfill their historical promise only in their ancient Holy Land under their own rule. Without spiritual regeneration, Judaism was in danger of becoming nothing more than a creed or cult; too many German Jews had already assimilated. He looked above all to France, home of revolution, to protect the Jews, considering it the "sacred duty of Christians to help" them regain their promised land. Unnoticed at first, The Revival of Israel was later discovered and adopted by the Zionists.

Author : Daniel B. Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691162140

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The First Modern Jew by Daniel B. Schwartz Pdf

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in genealogies of Jewish modernity. The First Modern Jew provides a riveting look at how Spinoza went from being one of Judaism's most notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew. Ranging from Amsterdam to Palestine and back again to Europe, the book chronicles Spinoza's posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero, the exemplar of a whole host of Jewish identities, including cosmopolitan, nationalist, reformist, and rejectionist. Daniel Schwartz shows that in fashioning Spinoza into "the first modern Jew," generations of Jewish intellectuals--German liberals, East European maskilim, secular Zionists, and Yiddishists--have projected their own dilemmas of identity onto him, reshaping the Amsterdam thinker in their own image. The many afterlives of Spinoza are a kind of looking glass into the struggles of Jewish writers over where to draw the boundaries of Jewishness and whether a secular Jewish identity is indeed possible. Cumulatively, these afterlives offer a kaleidoscopic view of modern Jewish cultureand a vivid history of an obsession with Spinoza that continues to this day.

Author : Eliezer Schweid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004380608

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A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid Pdf

Volume Three, The Crisis of Humanism, commences with an important essay on the challenge to the humanist tradition posed in the late 19th century by historical materialism, existentialism and positivism. These Jewish thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century addressed the general European value crisis while laying foundations for Jewish renewal: Hess, Lazarus, Cohen, Ahad Ha-Am, Dubnow, Berdiczewski, and the theorists of Yiddishism and Labor Zionism.

Author : Moses Hess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521387566

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Moses Hess: The Holy History of Mankind and Other Writings by Moses Hess Pdf

Moses Hess is a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought. The Holy History of Mankind appeared in 1837, and was the first book-length socialist tract to appear in Germany, representing an unusual synthesis of Judaism and Christianity. The distinguished political scientist Shlomo Avineri provides the first full English translation of this classic text, along with new renditions of Sozialsmus und Kommunismus and Ein Kommunistisches Bekenntis. All of the usual student-friendly series features are provided, including a chronology, concise introduction and notes for further reading.

Author : Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015508172

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Between Redemption and Perdition by Robert S. Wistrich Pdf

Examines anti-Semitism as a force challenging Jewish identity while highlighting anti-Semitism as a cause of the Holocaust.

Author : Moses Hess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Jewish nationalism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011782802

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Rome and Jerusalem by Moses Hess Pdf