The origins of democratic Zionism / Gregory B. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Gregory B., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660.

Mortera, Saul Levi.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Barrios, Miguel de, 1635-1701.

Barrios, Miguel de.

Zionism--History.

Zionism.

History.

Democracy--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Democracy.

Judaism and state.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 143 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"This book is the first to link the modern appreciation for democratic freedom directly to Jewish political thought in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The modern appreciation for democratic values is often assumed to have its roots in Classical thought. However, democracy has taken various forms in its progression to the governance many countries now employ. Working in dialog with Protestants, Jewish thinkers voiced the first Modern appeal for the reestablishment of a Jewish polity in the Holy Land. This appeal was grounded in a vision of a Jewish state governed by individual liberty and popular consent, which could be defined as a democratic Zionism. The book focuses on influential rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, as well as two of the most renowned members of his congregation, Baruch Spinoza and Miguel de Barrios. Unlike contemporary Catholic and Protestant thinkers, these three intellectuals found democratic values in an Old Testament polity that came to be revered as the Hebrew Republic. The book explores the trajectory by which this democratization of the Hebrew Republic evolved in the writings of Morteira as an alternative to divine-right rule. It then shows that, in spite of their divergent views toward practicing Judaism, Spinoza and Barrios disseminated Morteira's democratic ideas and promoted the Hebrew Republic as a model polity for a post-medieval political order. This book will be of great use to scholars of Judaism and Jewish philosophy in the modern era, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, as well as religious, political and intellectual history" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Democracy to Democratic Zionism

Flawed Democracy, the Aristotelian Agricultural Democracy and the Hebrew Republic

The Medieval Divine-Right Monarchy, an Anti-Hebrew Republic

The Divine-Right Spanish Monarchy and the Conversos

The Hebrew Republic as an Alternative to Habsburg Rule and the Emergence of Morteira, Barrios and Spinoza

The Hebrew Republic and Democratic Zionism in the Writings of Morteira

Morteira, Hobbes and the Democratic Zionism of Spinoza and Barrios

Democratic Zionism and Twenty-First Century Zionism

Appendix: Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses, Chapters One, Two, Ten and Eleven (Translation into English by Gregory B. Kaplan)

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660. Tratado da verdade da lei de Moisés. English. Selections.

Tratado da verdade da lei de Moisés.

Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367133481

0367133482

OCLC:

1078960257