Do Not Provoke Providence : : Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism / / Yosef Salmon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Salmon, Yosef,
• MitwirkendeR: Linsider, Joel A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)

Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah, and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those relations through the modernization of Jewish society, and the problem of Jewish Identity vis-a-vis modernity. The discussion follows historical events in both philosophy and everyday life. It explores the anti-Zionist sphere and also discusses the attitudes toward the conflict of religion and nationalism in the world of Religious Zionism. The dispute between advocates of a religious concept of the community and proponents of a secular nation revolved primarily around perceptions of the ideal relationship between the religious and national entities. One group sought to make religion a tool of the nation; the other sought to make the nation a tool of religion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- PART ONE. The Land of Israel in Orthodox Jewish Thought -- I. THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORTHODOX JEWISH THOUGHT -- II. Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe -- III. THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF Y. M. PINES -- IV. THE CORFU CITRON CONTROVERSY (1875–1891) -- PART TWO. From Support to Uncertainty in the Era of H̲ovevei Z̲iyyon -- V. ZIONISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM IN TRADITIONAL EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY -- VI. Y. M. PINES–LEADER OF PALESTINE JEWRY -- VII. AH̲AD HA-AM AND BENEI MOSHE: AN “UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT”? -- VIII. HASIDISM, THE LAND OF ISRAEL, AND ZIONISM -- PART THREE. Orthodoxy and Political Zionism -- IX. Theodor Herzl and Orthodox Jewry -- X. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MIZRACHI MOVEMENT IN AMERICA -- XI. THE LIDA YESHIVAH: A UNIQUE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING -- PART FOUR. The National State and Society: Transforming Religious Values into National Values -- XII. Messianism and Normalization in Secular Zionist Thought -- XIII. “RENEW OUR DAYS AS OF OLD”: A ZIONIST MYTH -- XIV. RELIGION AND SECULARISM IN THE ZIONIST NATIONAL MOVEMENT -- PART FIVE. Religious Zionism: A General Perspective -- XV. THE “NEW JEW” IN RELIGIOUS ZIONIST THOUGHT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX