Jewish Radicalisms : : Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity /

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

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 phenome...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 442 p.)
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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

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