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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bergamin, Peter,; Dal Bo, Federico,; Elmaliach, Tal,; Gruweis-Kovalsky, Ofira,; Jacob, Frank,; Katsman, Hayim,; Klein, Anne,; Kunze, Sebastian,; Lederer, Peter Scott,; Locker-Biletzki, Amir,; Peaceman, Hannah,; Rybak, Jan,; Shipley, Morgan,; Vater, Roman,
• HerausgeberIn: Jacob, Frank,; Kunze, Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 442 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Thoughts on Jewish Radicalism as a Phenomenon of Global Modernity -- Section I. Political Radicalisms -- 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 -- Section II. Religious Radicalisms -- 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 -- Section III: Cultural Radicalisms -- 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