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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777055803321

Titolo

Jews and Messianism in the modern era : metaphor and meaning / / editor, Jonathan Frankel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-19-771655-5

1-280-60557-X

9786610605576

0-19-536198-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 439 pages)

Collana

Studies in Contemporary Jewry, , 0740-8625 ; ; 7

Disciplina

206.1

Soggetti

Messianism

Zionism

Jews - Europe - History

Jews - Middle East - History - 20th century

Jewish messianic movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Symposium Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning; The Messianic Idea and Zionist Ideologies; Interpreting Messianic Rhetoric in the Russian Haskalah and Early Zionism; ""Forcing the End"": Zionism and the State of Israel as Antimessianic Undertakings; A Neglected Chapter in the History of Christian Zionism in America: William E. Blackstone and the Petition of 1916; Birth Pangs of the Messiah: The Reflections of Two Polish Rabbis on Their Era; Realism and Messianism in Zionism and the Yishuv; Poetry and Messianism in Palestine Between the Two World Wars

""The Stronger and the Better Jews"": Jewish Theological Responses to Political Messianism in the Weimar Republic; Reflections on Jewish Secular Messianism; The Messianism of Gush Emunim; Essays; The Yishuv and the Jews in Europe, 1938-1945; A Note on the Demographic and Economic Structure of the Jewish Community in Quito, Ecuador; The Gezerd Down Under; Review Essays; Two Halls of Ivy and a Hybrid



Hothouse: The Jews of Harvard, Yale and Yeshiva Universities; The Trials and Temptations of Conversion; The Two Zions and the Exodus from Ethiopia

The ""New Historians"" and the Establishment of Israel; Vienna, the Habsburg Empire and the Jews; Book Reviews (by subject); Political and Communal History; Social Sciences, Social History and Politics; Religion, Thought and Education; Israel and Zionism; Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide; Language, Art and Literature

Sommario/riassunto

The seventh volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning examines the significance and meaning of messianic metaphors, themes, and ideals in modern Jewish history and culture. In addition to the standard symposia, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations in Jewish studies, the volume includes contributions from such noted scholars of Jewish history as Jody Elizabeth Myerson on the messianic idea and Zionist ideologies; Aviezer Ravitsky on Zionism and th