A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy : : Volume V: Creating New Jewish Centers. the Visionaries of First Fulfillment in the Land of Israel.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Series ; v.38
• Author: Schweid, Eliezer.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

A thorough inside narrative and analysis of the seminal thinkers, religious and secular, of the Yishuv, 1900-48--Brenner, Gordon, Ya'ari, Katznelson, Jabotinsky, Kaufmann, Kook, Hirschensohn, Bialik, Amiel, Maimon, Alterman, Sadan, and others.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Challenges and Problems of Aliyah and Building -- 2 The Experience of Return from Exile to Homeland -- 2.1 Two Thinkers of the Second Aliyah -- 2.2 From Podolia to Degania: Gordon's Life Career -- 2.3 The Life of Yosef Ḥayyim Brenner -- 2.4 Brenner's Interpretation of Mendele -- 2.5 Gordon's Differences with Brenner -- 2.6 Man and Nature: Epistemological Starting Point -- 2.7 Reason versus Living: Exile from Nature and Return -- 2.8 Gordon's Relation to Kabbalah and Modern Philosophy -- 2.9 Ḥavaya: Life Knowledge or Protoknowledge -- 2.10 Complementarity of Protoknowledge and Reflective Knowledge -- 2.11 Gordon's Theory of National Cultures and Religion -- 2.12 Idolatry, Buddhism, and Ethical Monotheism -- 2.13 Avodah: Labor as Service of God -- 2.14 Self-Actualization, Not Altruism, as Basis for Ethics -- 2.15 Toward an Ethical Nationalism -- 2.16 Language as Basis for National Culture -- 2.17 Family, Community, and Nation -- 2.18 Critique of Capitalist Statism and Marxist Socialism -- 2.19 The Alternative: a Humane, Organic Zionism -- 3 Marxism between Communism and Pioneering Zionism -- 3.1 Marxist Tendencies in the Third Aliyah -- 3.2 Leaders of the Kibbutz and Moshav Movements -- 3.3 Values and Ambience of the Socialist Zionists -- 3.4 Fundamentals of Marxist Zionist Ideology -- 3.5 Tensions in Socialist Zionist Theory and Practice -- 3.6 The Place of Hebrew Culture and Religious Traditions in Socialist Zionist Ideology -- 3.7 Issues in the Splits in the Socialist Zionist Parties -- 3.8 Berl Katznelson's Mediating Approach -- 4 Revival of the Jewish People in Its Land according to Torah: -- 4.1 Kook and Hirschensohn: Two Religious Responses to the Second Aliyah -- 4.2 Kook's Intellectual Formation in Yeshiva and Haskalah -- 4.3 Kook's Intergenerational Mediating Approach.

4.4 Kook's Maturation after Making Aliyah -- 4.5 Kook's Dialectical Interpretation of Zionist Redemption as Teshuvah (Return) -- 4.6 Methodological Assumptions: Complementarity of Opposing Perspectives -- 4.7 General Contours of Kook's Method: Philosophical Prophecy -- 4.8 Prophetic versus Ordinary Knowledge -- 4.9 Role of Imagination: the Medievals and Schelling -- 4.10 Jewry's Uniqueness: Updating Halevi -- 4.11 Kook's Historical Schema: Exile and Messianic Age -- 4.12 Ḥayyim Hirschensohn: Halakha, Pragmatism, and Democracy -- 4.13 Hirschensohn on Pedagogy and Hebrew Culture -- 4.14 Hirschensohn as Philosopher: Critique of Spinoza -- 4.15 Halakha as Ideal Jurisprudence in a Modern Context -- 4.16 Nationality and Religion in Hirschensohn's Thought -- 4.17 Hirschensohn's Prescriptions for a Democratic Jewish State -- 5 Judaism as a Romantic National Culture (The Thought of Ze'ev Jabotinsky) -- 5.1 Jabotinsky's Career and His Position in Zionist Politics -- 5.2 Philosophical Dimensions of Jabotinsky's Thought: Ideal of Hadar (Chivalry) -- 5.3 The Jewish Right to the Land of Israel: Differences with Brit Shalom -- 5.4 The Shape of the State and Society: Differences with Labor Zionism -- 5.5 Hebrew Culture and Religion in Jabotinsky's Thought -- 5.6 Jabotinsky's Relation to Ben Gurion and Katznelson -- 6 The Unique Religion and Historical Destiny of the Jewish People, Scientifically Considered (The T -- 6.1 Kaufmann's Existential Starting Point: the Spiritual Will to Continuity -- 6.2 Autonomous Spirit in a Natural World, Empirically Studied -- 6.3 An Empirically Based Conception of National Identity -- 6.4 Religion's Role in Jewish Survival in Diaspora -- 6.5 Religion and Nationality in Ancient Israel -- 6.6 Exile and Alienation in Jewish History -- 6.7 The Challenge of Modernity and the Zionist Response.

6.8 Affirming Monotheism for Modern Hebrew Culture: Influence of Cohen, Critique of Wellhausen -- 6.9 Kaufmann's Redefinition of National Spirit and the Monotheistic Idea -- 6.10 Comparing Kaufmann with Peer Scholars: Baer, Klausner, Dinur, Mahler -- 7 Creating a Hebrew Culture from the Sources of Judaism (The -- 7.1 Bialik as Cultural Exemplar -- 7.2 Bialik's Essays as Expression of His Theory of Culture -- 7.3 Bialik's Theory of Language: Revealment and Concealment, Mimesis and Expression -- 7.4 Bialik's Myths of Childhood, Nature, Exile, and Redemption -- 7.5 "The Hebrew Book": Updating the Canon -- 7.6 Redefining Obligation: "Halakha and Aggadah" -- 7.7 The Prophetic Thrust of Bialik's Poetry -- 8 The Development of Modern Orthodoxy in Eretz Israel's Religious Zionism and the "Holy Rebellion" -- 8.1 The Challenges to Religious Zionism in Eretz Israel -- 8.2 Rabbi Yehuda Maimon's Teaching: Land, People, Torah -- 8.3 Rabbi Moshe Amiel's Guide to the Perplexed -- 8.4 Rabbi Samuel Landau: Torah and Labor -- 9 Facing Destruction, with Hope for Rebirth (Messianic -- 9.1 Double Shock: Holocaust and State -- 9.2 Initial Responses: Doubling down on Previous Principles -- 9.3 Moderates and Extremists in Labor Zionism -- 9.4 Radicalization in Revisionist Zionism -- 9.5 The Radical Pacifism of Brit Shalom -- 9.6 Second Thoughts: Livneh, Ben-Asher, Katznelson, Alterman -- 9.7 Literary Approaches: Kariv and Steinman -- 9.8 Dov Sadan as Educator: Reevaluating the Yiddish Legacy -- 9.9 Damiel's Return to Religion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- General Works on the Period -- Chapter 1: Challenges and Problems of Aliyah -- Chapter 2: A.D. Gordon and Y. H. Brenner -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Chapter 3: National Marxism -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Chapter 4: Renaissance by Torah: R. Abraham Kook and Chaim Hirschensohn -- Primary Texts.

Secondary Studies -- Chapter 5: Judaism as Romantic National Culture (Jabotinsky) -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Chapter 6: Jewish Uniqueness Scientifically Considered (Yehezkel Kaufmann) -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Chapter 7: Creating Hebrew Culture from Jewish Sources (Bialik) -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Chapter 8: Modern Orthodoxy in Israeli Religious Zionism (Y. L. Hakohen Maimon, Avigdor Amiel, and Sh. Ch. Landau) -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Chapter 9: Responding to the Holocaust and Hope of Rebuilding: Messianic Extremism in Secular Zionism and Awakening of Second Thoughts -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Studies -- Index.