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Jewish radical ultra-orthodoxy confronts modernity, Zionism and women's equality / Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina, Pembroke) ; translated by Shaul Vardi.
Van Pelt Library BM198.56.N38 I53 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Inbari, Motti, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naṭore ḳarta--History.
- Naṭore ḳarta.
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
- Orthodox Judaism--Relations--Nontraditional Jews.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Relations.
- Nontraditional Jews.
- Secularism.
- Rabbis--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1. The de Haan assassination and the background to the formation of Neturei Karta
- 2. Rabbi Amram Blau, founder of the Neturei Karta movement
- 3. The modesty campaigns of Rabbi Amram Blau and the Neturei Karta movement, 1938-1974
- 4. Messianic activism in the work and thought of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira (the Munkacser Rebbe) in the interwar period
- 5. The life and work of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar hasidic court in New York
- 6. Eschatology, dualism, and the decline of the generations: the world view of radical ultra-orthodoxy
- 7. Jewish zealotry: past and present
- Epilogue: Contemporary trends in radical ultra-orthodoxy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107088108
- 1107088100
- OCLC:
- 918590584
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