Jewish Radicalisms : Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity / Frank Jacob, Sebastian Kunze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacob, Frank, Editor.

Kunze, Sebastian, Editor.

Series:

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; Volume 39.

Europäisch-jüdische Studien - Beiträge ; 39

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Jewish radicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages).

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and German.

Summary:

Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. Often, there is a connection implied between left-wing ideas and activists as well as their radicalism. This volume surveys Jewish radicalisms and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon which are conceptualised as three different phenomena: Cultural, political and religious radicalism. The volume is focussed on the 20th century and tries to grasp the manifold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, wants to open up the discussion on this category. This discussion is needed not only within Jewish Studies to engage with this topic and broaden our understanding of Jewish Radicalism as well as to form a useful applicable category. This volume is to be understood as a call for and a contribution to this debate.

Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. This volume wants to survey Jewish radicalism and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon. It is focused on the 19th and 20th century and tries to grasped the manyfold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, it approaches the term Jewish radicalism from different perspectives and wants to extend the understanding of this phenomenon.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction. Thoughts on Jewish Radicalism as a Phenomenon of Global Modernity

Pathways of Early Post-Zionism

Revolutionary Fascist or Fascist Revolutionary. Abba Ahimeir and the Success of Revolutionary Zionism

The Radical (Re‐)Interpretation of Jewish Class and Nation. Poale Zion and the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917

The Settler, the Native and the Communist. Nationalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism in Moshe Sneh's and Emil Touma's Ideology, 1953-1973

Radical Trinity. Anarchist, Jew, or New Yorker?

Jewish Radicalism as a Liminal Space. HaShomer haTza'ir between Zionism and the New Left, 1967-1973

Psychedelic Judaism in a Countercultural America. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and the Radical Religiosity of LSD Consciousness

Nihilism and Extremist Religious Education in Contemporary Israel. The King's Torah and its Discontents

Reactions Towards Jewish Radicalism. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg and Religious Zionism

Religious Radicalism, the Zionist Right, and the Establishment of the State of Israel

Education, Citizenship, Social Justice. Janusz Korczak and Jewish Community Action in Warsaw at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Mel Brooks' Subversive Cabaret. The Producers (1968)

The Cultural Heretic Gustav. Landauer as a Radical Writer

Jewish Radicalism as Radical Diversity? Radical Thought in Jewish Perspectives on the Jewish Question in early Nineteenth Century Germany

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110545753

3110545756

9783110543520

3110543524

OCLC:

1135589912