Hastening redemption : Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel / Arie Morgenstern ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgenstern, Arie.

Contributor:

Linsider, Joel A.

Standardized Title:

Meshiḥiyut ṿe-yishuv Erets Yiśraʼel. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jewish messianic movements.

Judaism--Palestine--History--19th century.

Judaism.

Jews--Palestine--History--19th century.

Jews.

History.

Palestine--History--1799-1917.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

x, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Contents:

chap. 1. Background of the early-nineteenth-century messianic awakening

chap. 2. Belief in 5600 (1840) as the year of redemption

chap. 3. Immigration to the land of Israel, 1808-1840

chap. 4. Process of redemption envisioned by the Vilna Ga'on's disciples

chap. 5. Attempt to renew rabbinic ordination in Safed

chap. 6. "Raising the shekhinah from the dust" by rebuilding Jerusalem

chap. 7. Expanding and solidifying Jewish settlement in the land of Israel

chap. 8. Crisis of faith in the wake of unfulfilled expectations

chap. 9. Retreat from the idea of "redemption through return to Zion"

Epilogue. Emergence of a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.

Notes:

Translated from the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-278) and index.

ISBN:

0195305787

OCLC:

61261297

Publisher Number:

9780195305784

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