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

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991; ©1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 439 pages)
• Disciplina: 206.1
• Soggetto topico: Messianism; Zionism; Jews - Europe - History; Jews - Middle East - History - 20th century; Jewish messianic movements
• Persona (resp. second.): FrankelJonathan
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Jews and Messianism in the modern era
• ISBN: 0-19-771655-5; 1-280-60557-X; 9786610605576; 0-19-536198-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777055803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in contemporary Jewry ; ; 7.