Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism

Name: Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism
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ISBN: 9780226705781

ISBN-10: 0226705781

ISBN-13: 9780226705781

Edition: 1996

Authors: Aviezer Ravitzky, Michael Swirsky, Jonathan Chipman

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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